
Extreme heat will be more frequent in the Pacific Northwest. Experts say region is not prepared
CNN
Seattle and Portland rank first and third, respectively, among cities with the highest proportion of households without air conditioning, according to the US Census Bureau.
As smoke poured into their Seattle home that night, the teen helped her mother fill every crack and crevice with towels and sheets — whatever they could find — to keep it out. Now the 15-year-old is about to experience yet another record-breaking weather event, one that not even her mother has experienced in her lifetime.
Oregon authorities are investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people federal authorities say are tied to a violent international gang – an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration’s handling of its immigration crackdown in the city and across the US.

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.










