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Do we need to make masks, face coverings mandatory?

Jun 16, 2020, 5:00 PM | Updated: Oct 7, 2024, 9:18 am

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BY KIRO NEWSRADIO NEWSDESK


KIRO Newsradio staff

KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross and reporter Aaron Granillo run through three major updates on how doctors are treating hospitalized coronavirus patients.

King County applies to move from Phase 1.5 to Phase 2, which could happen as soon as Friday. As Washington reopens, do we need to make masks mandatory?

Ross: There’s nothing courageous about refusing to wear masks

And to attend President Trump’s indoor, nearly 20,000 seat rally in Oklahoma this weekend, you have to promise you won’t sue him.

Associated Press

Now it’s Typhoon Nolo after Pacific hurricane crosses the international dateline

MIAMI (AP) — Nolo is no longer a hurricane. The powerful storm remains about as strong, but it changed names Sunday to a typhoon as it crossed the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. Now Typhoon Nolo is located about 395 miles (640 kilometers) west-southwest of Lisianski Island and moving west at 17 mph (28 […]

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Associated Press

US Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were redeployed back to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon […]

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FILE - Matsapha Correctional Complex is seen in Matsapha, near Mbabane, Eswatini, July 17, 2025. (A...

Associated Press

An immigrant deported by the US and held in an African prison for more than a year has been released

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to Eswatini under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was released from a maximum-security prison in the African nation on Sunday after being held there for more than a year, his lawyer said. Phone Chomsavanh was among five immigrants deported to Eswatini […]

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KIRO Newsradio staff

Early morning shooting in downtown Tacoma leaves two dead, one injured

Police in Tacoma are investigating the deaths of two men following a shooting in the city's downtown area.

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Associated Press

2 shot dead and dozens injured at Vienna, Georgia, block party shooting

VIENNA, Georgia (AP) — Two people were shot to death and nearly three dozen others were injured at a block party early Sunday morning in Georgia, according to state law enforcement officials. Deputies from the Dooly County Sheriff’s Office were on patrol at a neighborhood block party around 1:25 a.m. Sunday in Vienna when shots […]

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Associated Press

Christa Pike’s lawyer says she has not regained consciousness since her failed Tennessee execution

Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four days since her failed execution in Tennessee, and her prognosis might not be known for days more, one of her lawyers said Sunday. Little has been released about Pike’s condition since Wednesday night’s execution attempt. She has since remained hospitalized […]

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Do we need to make masks, face coverings mandatory?