Census To Miss Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats Behind schedule and struggling to fix irregularities in the count, the Census Bureau is working toward Jan. 9 as the next date in the process for releasing results, a bureau employee tells NPR. Hansi Lo Wang
Senate GOP Rushes To Finish Defense Bill And Avoid Showdown On Relief Payments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the $2,000 relief checks have "no realistic path" in the Senate on their own. He has tied them to other provisions that Democrats blast as partisan. Kelsey Snell
How The COVID-19 Relief Bill Targets Unemployment Pains, Including The Growing Issue Of Overpayment The new massive coronavirus relief bill that President Trump signed on Sunday also includes extended support for unemployed people. Serena McMahon
Biden Again Criticizes Trump's COVID Response, Vows To Speed Vaccine Production In a speech Tuesday, the president-elect laid out his plan to combat coronavirus and criticized President Trump's response to the pandemic. He also encouraged Trump to get vaccinated. Danielle Kurtzleben
The Year In Housing News: Eviction Moratoriums, Delayed Mortgage Payments, Foreclosures There's no place like home, and this year many people were threatened with no place to call home. WBUR Newsroom
Outlook Unclear For $2,000 COVID-19 Relief Payments As Action Shifts To Senate Senate Democrats excoriated majority Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, but the road ahead remains uncertain for more in direct disbursements from the government. Philip Ewing
What the federal stimulus bill means for Sound Transit projects Federal funding could have brought light rail access to Tacoma, Everett, Ballard, and West Seattle sooner. But the final bill failed to come to the rescue, said Sound Transit's CEO Peter Rogoff. Joshua McNichols
Inslee tightens WA travel restrictions following new coronavirus strain revelations in U.K., South Africa Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday announced a new, 14-day quarantine requirement for people traveling into the state from the United Kingdom and South Africa, where mutated strains of the coronavirus have recently driven surges in Covid-19 cases. Liz Brazile
Seattle invests in cultural space, with an eye towards inclusivity "The history of Seattle has been this history of haves and have-nots — of those who have access to capital and to property, and those who don't." Kim Malcolm
Officials report low Covid-19 cases at Northwest Detention Center. But others say transparency is lacking While ICE publicly reports just 22 cases of Covid-19 at the Northwest Detention Center during the pandemic, human rights researchers question the agency’s transparency. Kim Malcolm
