*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***

+ KING-5 TV: Beginning Monday, Gov. Inslee ordered everyone attending an event with 500 or more people throughout the entire state will be required to wear a face-covering, vaxxed or not.

+ South Sound Business: Report: South Sound Home Prices Surge in August

+ Thurston County Auditor: Thurston County Receives Clean Audit for Sixth Straight Year

+ KING-5 TV: Sports betting launches in Washington state in time for NFL season

+ NVN: Area School Districts Welcome Students Back to Full-Time, In-Person Learning

+ KING-5 TV: Washington’s school cafeterias face food, supply shortages due to pandemic disruptions

*** VIRUS NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***

The Olympian: So you have COVID? Providence is offering monoclonal antibody therapy at west Olympia clinic to significantly reduce the risk of needing hospitalization

CNBC: Biden doubles weekly shipments of free monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid by 50%. The admin. shipped more than 800,000 doses in July

CNBC: Biden outlines plan to mandate Covid vaccines for millions: ‘Our patience is wearing thin’

CNBC: TSA to double minimum fines for air travelers who refuse to wear masks

KING-5 TV: Biden requires large companies to mandate vaccines for their employees or test for the coronavirus on a weekly basis.

KING-5 TV: What is the mu variant of the coronavirus?

Washington Examiner: Rand Paul was right about Fauci – documents appear to support Paul’s assertions that Fauci was lying

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***

KING-5 TV: Justice Dept. lawsuit says Texas abortion law made ‘in open defiance of the Constitution’

KING-5 TV: Justice Department sues Texas over state’s new abortion law

CNBC: Natural gas prices are rising and could be the most expensive in 13 years this winter

The New York Times: The Biden administration wants solar energy to provide 45 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2050, up from 4 percent today.

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM THURSDAY ***

Business Insider: Donald Trump Jr. helped sink Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over his support for gun regulations

The Hill: Mary Trump: Uncle may be ‘too busy’ with depositions to stay politically involved

Reuters: Explainer: Can Trump use executive privilege to block Jan 6 attack probe?

Daily Mail (UK): Trump’s ‘Kraken’ lawyer Sidney Powell asked to pay $200K in legal fees

CNN: Yet more evidence Donald Trump is running a shadow presidency

Business Insider: Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham is writing a damaging memoir about her time working for him and Melania

The Independent (UK): Senior Republican demonised by Trump reveals what’s behind GOP election suppression laws: ‘They got scared’

Politico: Trump is already claiming the California recall is rigged – The disconnect between GOP expectations and polling all but ensures that a tight Newsom victory would spur a new wave of voter fraud accusations.