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Arvin Lamebear Gallagher winces at a needle held by nurse Roberta Wagner as she prepares to vaccinate him for COVID-19 on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.

Despite obstacles, Native Americans have the nation’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rate

August 16, 2021 at 1:52 p.m.

LODGE POLE, Mont. — For the first several months of the pandemic, the residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation were spared by their seclusion in the plains of northern...

Protesters, including children and elected officials, burn masks in Idaho, though masks are not required there

March 7, 2021 at 11:57 a.m.

More than a year into a pandemic that has claimed 523,000 lives in the United States, right-wing protesters in Idaho, including a handful of elected officials, set protective masks aflame...

Firefighters fought back wildfires at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon.

Deep in Oregon wilderness, 5 men battle wildfire to save a historic resort

September 22, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.

SALEM, Ore. — Managers of the Breitenbush hot springs resort deep in the Oregon wilderness were not particularly worried about the Lionshead fire, which for more than two weeks had...

George Floyd ‘se suicidó’, asegura un abogado de la defensa

August 21, 2020 at 3:39 p.m.

El público llegó rápidamente a su veredicto: la policía de Minneapolis mató a George Floyd. Un video visto en todo el mundo lo muestra en la acera, con el cuello...

Del gas lacrimógeno de Portland surge una figura que captura la imaginación de los manifestantes

July 21, 2020 at 11:51 a.m.

Surgió como una aparición entre las nubes de gases lacrimógenos cuando agentes federales dispararon bolas de pimienta contra manifestantes en la oscuridad de la madrugada del sábado. Una mujer que...

© Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times Tammy Snider, of Parkland, Pierce County, was one of an estimated 1,500 protesters at a rally in Olympia on Saturday against Washington state's stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Delatar y amenazar, nueva táctica de la extrema derecha

May 11, 2020 at 11:18 a.m.

Aram Westergreen, un trabajador de la construcción que estuvo inactivo el mes pasado en el marco de la pandemia de COVID-19, completó recientemente un formulario en línea del estado de...

King County Executive Dow Constantine at the King County Recorder's Office on Dec. 6, 2012 in Seattle, Wash. King County officials have bought an Econo Lodge motel in Kent, Wash. to house coronavirus patients.

Officials bought a motel in Kent, Wash., to hold coronavirus patients; neighbors are enraged

March 11, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

SEATTLE — Health officials here thought they found a fine place to quarantine COVID-19 patients: a motel that was up for sale. This week King County completed the $4 million...

Lauren Lee , left, and Agata Skora with their dogs, Emmy and Manu, head up the elevator for a day of work with their owners at Amazon in Seattle.

Alexa, how many dogs come to work at Amazon Seattle? 7,000

July 10, 2019 at 6:16 p.m.

Casually dressed techies, blue badges flapping, dart past construction workers during morning rush hour at the global headquarters of Amazon, the juggernaut accelerating the growth of our on-demand culture. A...

7 days, 3 countries and a Great Wall

August 22, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

Most people who dream of an epic train ride conjure scenes of the Trans-Siberian Railway, imagining vast birch forests and peasant hamlets on the seven-day journey between Moscow and Vladivostok....

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