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A bronze lantern hangs on chains beneath the coffered stone ceiling of a portico, above a row of tall windows and a carved stone balustrade.
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Washington's Millionaires' Tax Would Raise $11.4 Billion by 2031 From About 30,000 Payers. Voters Decide Tuesday Whether It Ever Starts.

Washington's Initiative 645 would repeal the state's new 9.9 per cent tax on income above $1 million before it takes effect in 2028. The state's fiscal impact statement puts the lost revenue at $11.4 billion over five fiscal years. Colorado, California and North Carolina are also voting on how their top earners are taxed; no results are in.

A yellow diamond road sign reading FLOODED stands on muddy gravel beside a desert road running with water, as a white car drives through under a grey sky.
Explainer

A Pacific Hurricane Made Landfall in Baja. Its Flood Watches Reach Iowa.

Hurricane Polo came ashore in Baja California Sur early on Tuesday and is expected to die over the mountains of northern Mexico within a day. Its moisture will not. On Tuesday morning the National Weather Service had flood watches in force across 470 forecast zones in 10 states, from Arizona to Iowa, and forecasters warned of "locally catastrophic flooding" in New Mexico and southern Colorado.