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With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as nonprofit

That path to sustainability is even more important in the face of major cuts to foreign assistance from multiple historic donor countries.New possibilities outside of USAID Of the total DIV Fund has raised so far, $20 million has been allocated to former recipients, leaving $28 million for future grants. The fund will have an open call for applications this year, a process they are devoted to because it generates many new ideas. Within USAID, DIV would sometimes influence other departments and w

Massive WSP training event planned at Mukilteo ferry dock

This training is for those who would be called in during an actual emergency.“The training itself is just to get as many people as we can through the terminal and onto the vessels and have them see the sights and smell the smells and understand what doors lead to where and what it feels like out on the water,” Trooper Fortino said.The training is vital to ensure emergencies are handled well.“We are always working to be as prepared as we can for any kind of high-profile incident

Seattle weekend guide: Super Bowl watch parties, festivals, and Lunar New Year events

This is the final Night Market being held at Magnuson Park, as plans for what’s next are underway, but they are going out with a Lunar New Year Grand Finale.You’ll find vendors, crafts, plus food and drinks on Saturday night, a perfect pre-Valentine’s date night or spot to pick up something cool and handmade for someone special in your life. You’ll need a ticket to get in, and a reminder that this is only for folks 21 and up.The long-awaited Eagle FestivalHere’s one

From ancestral mask to NFL icon: The Indigenous origins of the Seahawks logo

Sometimes it takes the shape of vibrant prints honoring what his ancestors called “the land of plenty.” Sometimes it appears in unexpected places, like Indigenous designs painted across the helmets of Star Wars stormtroopers, which is his playful collision of pop culture and tradition, explaining, “It’s kind of meshing all these worlds together.”But one mask, more than any Everson had designed or decorated himself, caught his attention years ago in Burke Museum curator emeritus

Trump’s aggressive tactics force a reckoning between local leaders and Washington

“Given that the administration has used partisan politics and used the power of the federal government and its various agencies to put pressure on mayors and local officials not to follow the law but to follow their politics is absolutely new and it’s absolutely affecting trust at every level.”While foreign leaders can explore a shift in alliances, as some are actively considering, that’s nearly impossible for local leaders in the U.S., whose budgets are tied to federal funding. Those fund

3 fans. 60 Super Bowls. This might be their last time going to the big game

They have sometimes sat together in the past, but logistics make it impossible some years.But this year it was just about being able to go to the game at all, Henschel said.“I don’t talk or walk good,” he said.An ever-shrinking clubThe club of people who have never missed a Super Bowl once included other fans, executives, media members and even groundskeepers, but as time has passed, the group has shrunk. Photographer John Biever, who has shot every Super Bowl, also plans to let his streak end a

Newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr.’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip before measles outbreak

Kennedy, then running his anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, did not publicly discuss the trip at the time, but he has since said his “purpose” for going there was not related to vaccines and “I ended up having conversations with people, some of whom I never intended to meet.” Besides meeting with anti-vaccine activists, Kennedy met with Samoan officials, including the health minister at the time, who told NBC News that Kennedy shared his view that vaccines were not safe. Kenned

Fear in Minnesota’s Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination

“I’m going to call you in five days,” Fate said he tells hesitant parents, “and there’ll be no changes to this speech.”Overall, Minnesota’s kindergarten MMR vaccination rate has dropped more than 6 percentage points in the past five years, compared with a 2-point drop nationwide.State data suggests the effort to catch kids up may be effective: While less than 1 in 4 Somali kids in Minnesota is vaccinated against measles by age 2, 86% get at least one dose by age 6 — just short of the statewide r

Bad Bunny look-alike contest in San Francisco draws hundreds of fans

Adam Fox, 24, and his friend Alejandro Kurt, 23, traveled from Belmont, a city about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of San Francisco, after both men with curly dark hair and dark facial hair were told they look like Bad Bunny.Fox, an aspiring actor who wore a suit, bowtie, and dark sunglasses, said he is a fan of Bad Bunny’s music even though he doesn’t speak Spanish.His music “is like art. You don’t have to totally understand it. It could just be something that’s beautiful,” Fox said.The contes

Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South’s rice and crawfish farms

In Louisiana, where rice and crawfish are often grown together in the same fields, there’s now a second threat: tiny insects called delphacids that can deal catastrophic damage to rice plants. Much about these snails and insects is still a mystery, and researchers are trying to learn more about what’s fueling their spread, from farming methods and pesticides to global shipping and extreme weather.Experts aren’t sure what role climate change may play, but they say a warming world gene

Ronald Hicks to be installed as 11th archbishop of New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Ronald Hicks is set to be installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York in a ceremony at a revered Manhattan church where dignitaries and laypeople from all walks of life are expected to gather and celebrate.Previewing the Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to reporters on Thursday, Hicks said he will talk about his vision for one of the largest archdioceses in the nation that serves roughly 2.5 million Catholics in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York Cit

Epstein emails show he helped arrange White House visit for Woody Allen

Allen has since been largely ostracized by the American film community.In emails in 2016, Epstein, Previn and Allen compared their own scandals to another celebrity in the news at the time: Bill Cosby, who had denied allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulting numerous women.“The crowd needs a witch to burn, and there are not many left,” Epstein wrote.Allen replied, in a message relayed through Previn, that his own situation is “radically different” from Cosby’s.“I do expect (and g

Up to 300 Boeing engineering jobs could leave WA for South Carolina

“The indifference to these concerns evidenced by how this decision was announced casts a pall over upcoming contract negotiations.”The airline manufacturer maintains approximately 65,000 workers in Washington, compared to 9,000 employees based in South Carolina.“As we continue to strengthen Engineering to support our programs and customers, we are hiring a significant number of engineers in Puget Sound to support commercial airplane programs, including the 737 North Line and continue

Takeaways from AP’s report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home

(AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years.One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind his home on Maui weren’t actually his mother’s remains. Instead, her body was languishing with 188 others in a building in Penrose, outside Colorado Springs.It was one of the largest discoveries of decaying bodies at

Houston doctor indicted on charges he falsified records to block patients’ liver transplants

The indictment alleges Bynon change the records of five patients from March 2023 to March 2024.One patient was ineligible to receive a donor organ offer for approximately 149 days and died in February 2024 under Bynon’s care, according to the indictment.Another patient was ineligible to receive a donor organ offer for approximately 69 days and died in December 2023 during a surgery to receive a new liver.A third patient who required an “urgent liver transplantation” died in December 2023, two da

Washington school superintendent calls for major education investments, property tax relief

“The state also partially funds meals and dual credit, two opportunities that the Superintendent recommends become part of basic education and available to all students at no out-of-pocket cost.”Reykdal said that fully funding K–12 would cost $860–$900 million. The free tuition would cost about $760 million, and meals would cost $110 million.Plan also calls for property tax reliefReykdal is also calling for $1.4 billion in property tax relief for the state’s homeowners.Reykdal&

Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business

Investors also didn’t seem to like Amazon’s announcement Thursday that it was stepping up its capital expenditure to $200 billion this year, up from $125 billion last year, as it sees opportunities in artificial intelligence, robots, semiconductors, and satellites.Wall Street analysts were expecting spending to rise to around $147 billion this year, according to FactSet.The results come as Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce compa

A funeral home stashed 189 decaying bodies and handed out fake ashes. His mother was among them

Then he “appeared to wipe the remaining decomposition from the gurney onto other bodies in the room,” before wheeling what appeared to be two more bodies into the building, the affidavit said.In a text to his wife, Hallford said, “while I was making the transfer, I got people juice on me,” according to court testimony.The neighborhood momJohnson grew up with his mother in an affordable-housing complex in Colorado Springs, where she knew everyone.Johnson’s father wasn’t around much; a

Census Bureau plans to use survey with a citizenship question in its test for 2030, alarming experts

Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its practice test of the 2030 census, raising questions about whether the Trump administration might try to make a significant change to the once-a-decade headcount that failed during the president’s first term.The field test being conducted in Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, is using questions from the American Community Survey, the comprehensive survey of American life, rather than quest

Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86

<block>GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86. Boritt had been a professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for many years, founding the Civil War Institute and helping establish the $50,000 Lincoln Prize for scholarship related to the Civil War. He died Monday in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, according to his son.Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. He was sent to an orphanage after the war and in 1956 joined the Hungarian Revolution as a 16-year-old, his family recalled. After the uprising was crushed, he made it to the United States, where he worked in a New York hat factory before furthering his education in South Dakota and earning a history doctorate from Boston University.He taught at several universities before joining the faculty at Gettysburg in 1981. Boritt served on the board of the Gettysburg Foundation and was involved in the construction of a new visitor’s center at Gettysburg National Military Park.He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush in 2008. A screening of “Budapest to Gettysburg,” a documentary about his life created by his son, Jake Boritt, will be held on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12, in Gettysburg. </block>