Hundreds of Starbucks employees in the Seattle area will lose their jobs as the company's CEO tries to streamline company operations.

Amid slight improvement in Pope Francis’ ailing health, Seattle Catholics gathered at St. James Cathedral on Monday to pray for a religious leader who some said represented a bulwark against dangerous times in the United States and abroad.

Ukrainians decried the war’s “depth of the depravity” and called on Trump to fulfill a pledge to end it. About 6% of refugees in the U.S. settled near Seattle.