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Half of America distrusts news coverage of presidential election

RESTON, Virginia: According to a poll from the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 53 percent of Americans said they are extremely or very concerned that news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation during the 2024 presidential election.

The poll also found that some 42 percent expressed concern that news outlets will use generative artific

Boeing locks out its private firefighters, bring in replacements around Seattle over pay dispute
Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area and brought in replacements after the latest round of negotiations with the firefighters' union failed to deliver an agreement on wages.

NYT Politics

Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too
Author: Maggie Astor
The South Dakota governor, defending her tale of shooting and killing her family’s dog, suggested that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, had merited a similar fate.
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too
Author: Maggie Astor
The South Dakota governor, defending her tale of shooting and killing her family’s dog, suggested that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, had merited a similar fate.
Driver Dies After Crashing Into Barrier Near the White House
Author: Minho Kim
The Secret Service said the incident posed no threat to the public, and President Biden was in Delaware at the time of the crash.

The Stand (Washington Labor News)

Join locked-out Boeing firefighters on picket lines
Author: David Groves

SEATTLE (May 5, 2024) — Amid a crisis of confidence at Boeing and calls from governments, airline customers, and the general public to restore the company’s focus on safety, Boeing locked out its on-site firefighters on Saturday after refusing to improve a “last, best and final” contract offer rejected by more than 80 percent of […]

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Columbian Newspaper

‘A step back in time’: America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
Author: TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening.

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Review: Amy Tan takes wing in ‘Backyard Bird Chronicles’
Author: Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times

Amy Tan’s best-loved, bestselling novels were all, in one way or another, born at home. Books like “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Kitchen God’s Wife” grew out of the Chinese American author’s family life, turned to rich fiction by her elegant writing.

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Rosie O’Donnell joins ‘And Just Like That’ for Season 3, and there’s no sign of Sara Ramirez
Author: Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times

Production on Season 3 of “And Just Like That” has begun, and Sara Ramirez, who played the divisive nonbinary comedian Che Diaz in the first two seasons of the “Sex and the City” reboot, is not involved.

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Pandemic still at forefront of WA state schools superintendent race
Author: Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times

The last time Washingtonians elected a state schools leader was in 2020, when most school buildings were empty because of the pandemic.

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