The Latest From Control F: The weird way we decide who sits below the poverty line A special episode brought to us by our friends at Control F: the surprising history of the federal poverty line. Monica Nickelsburg Tuesday Evening Headlines King County bans new immigration detention facilities, tech leaders line up for and against the millionaire's tax, and British Columbia adopts permanent daylight saving time. Paige Browning Immigration King County bans immigration detention facilities, joining other Western Washington cities Joining other local governments across Washington state, King County has issued an emergency moratorium on new detention facilities being built or expanded in unincorporated King County. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez Business The World Cup is coming to Seattle. Will it actually pay off for local businesses? This summer, Seattle becomes one of 16 North American cities to host FIFA World Cup matches. That includes six games, a projected 750,000 visitors, and nearly a billion dollars flowing into King County. Joshua McNichols Politics Voting nears to a close in Texas primary that may be crucial to control of the Senate The GOP and Democratic primaries mark a potential litmus test for what direction base voters want their parties to go ahead of midterm elections this fall that will determine power in Congress. Ashley Lopez Politics More bills knocked out of running in Washington Legislature We’re in the home stretch of Washington’s 2026 legislative session. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard Will the WNBA season get delayed? As new fans flock to the WNBA, the players and the league are still working out a new deal for the upcoming season. Gabrielle Healy Environment It’s lights out for Washington Legislature’s effort to regulate data centers Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. Aspen Ford/Washington State Standard The big risk to the global economy hidden in the supply chain of semiconductors If China ever decided to exert its claims to Taiwan using military force – that could put chip production in danger. Potentially leading to the largest economic downfall since the Great Depression. Libby Denkmann Science Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee) Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins. Ari Daniel Prev 139 of 1646 Next Sponsored
From Control F: The weird way we decide who sits below the poverty line A special episode brought to us by our friends at Control F: the surprising history of the federal poverty line. Monica Nickelsburg
Tuesday Evening Headlines King County bans new immigration detention facilities, tech leaders line up for and against the millionaire's tax, and British Columbia adopts permanent daylight saving time. Paige Browning
Immigration King County bans immigration detention facilities, joining other Western Washington cities Joining other local governments across Washington state, King County has issued an emergency moratorium on new detention facilities being built or expanded in unincorporated King County. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Business The World Cup is coming to Seattle. Will it actually pay off for local businesses? This summer, Seattle becomes one of 16 North American cities to host FIFA World Cup matches. That includes six games, a projected 750,000 visitors, and nearly a billion dollars flowing into King County. Joshua McNichols
Politics Voting nears to a close in Texas primary that may be crucial to control of the Senate The GOP and Democratic primaries mark a potential litmus test for what direction base voters want their parties to go ahead of midterm elections this fall that will determine power in Congress. Ashley Lopez
Politics More bills knocked out of running in Washington Legislature We’re in the home stretch of Washington’s 2026 legislative session. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Will the WNBA season get delayed? As new fans flock to the WNBA, the players and the league are still working out a new deal for the upcoming season. Gabrielle Healy
Environment It’s lights out for Washington Legislature’s effort to regulate data centers Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. Aspen Ford/Washington State Standard
The big risk to the global economy hidden in the supply chain of semiconductors If China ever decided to exert its claims to Taiwan using military force – that could put chip production in danger. Potentially leading to the largest economic downfall since the Great Depression. Libby Denkmann
Science Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee) Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins. Ari Daniel