Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/endangered-orcas-return-to-puget-sound-without-newborn-j64-presumed-dead
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Washington is one of 14 states — along with Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia — that allow some form of late-arriving mail-in ballots.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-the-supreme-court-ruling-on-mail-in-voting-means-for-us-states-b993
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Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.kuow.org/environment/2026-09-09/wa-sues-to-prevent-federal-changes-that-would-undercut-endangered-species-act
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