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If you haven’t noticed… it is HOT today. Especially if you are spending time outside in the sun.

In Washington, workers who are outside for more than 15 minutes during their shift have new workplace rights.

Ryan Allen from the Department of Labor & Industries will walk us through the rules and red tape.

If you follow local tech news, you might be wondering whether Microsoft’s hiring freeze and Amazon’s construction slowdown portends a bigger economic slowdown for the region.

Seattle Times business reporter Paul Roberts is here to help us make sense of things.

It’s Friday again and we’re looking at a weekend of rising temperatures, crowded outdoor events, and maybe some dogs who really hate when we leave the house.

We’ll get into all that with Crosscut environment reporter Hannah Weinberger and independent journalist Jane C Hu.

We know a lot about monkeypox: How it's spread, what the symptoms are. We even have a vaccine. But health officials are still trying to figure out why it's spreading so quickly right now, in Seattle and across the world.

Seattle TimeElise Takahama from the Seattle Times will tell us about the impact Monkey Pox is having here in the Seattle area.

Covid case numbers are climbing and local health officials are in talks about reinstating a mask mandate.

But the public is largely feeling pandemic fatigue.

Dr. Pavitra Roychoudhury at the UW Virology Lab shares the latest information on Omicron variant BA.5 and the risk level in the community.

AirBnB has, to put it simply, a complex relationship with many US cities. That includes Seattle, where AirBnB stock is pretty tightly regulated.

KUOW’s Joshua McNichols wanted to know: Just what impact do AirBnBs have on the city?

Two years ago, the conversation in Seattle was all about defunding the Seattle Police Department, but things have changed.

Mayor Bruce Harrell says SPD now has a staffing crisis. He’s proposing an ambitious plan to put millions into hiring 500 new police officers.

KUOW reporter Amy Radil explains why the department has such a labor shortage and how Harrell's recruitment plan would work.

This week Starbucks announced store closures… we greeted Amazon Prime Day with a collective “whatevs” on social media but the retail giant said “whatevs back” still boosting sales by 8.9%... and to top it all off the heavens ordered up a supersized moon.

We’re breaking it all down this week with Tan Vinh and Jeannie Yandel.

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Kids of any age can get vaccinated against Covid now. The real question is: Will they? We check in with Dr. Dimitri Christakas about what concerns parents have.