At hidden hubs for the Seattle Public Library and King County Library systems, thousands of books a day begin their journeys across the region.

A pigeon with a hole in its neck pecks at a plastic water bowl. Scroll. A woman, her face and hands coated in a shiny paste the colour of Vegemite, runs the back of a butter knife along her left cheek ...

Getting through thousands of tonnes a day, and famous locally for going up in smoke, what’s it like at the Longridge Road site?

Woldenberg, who runs two educational-toy businesses near Chicago, says the BubblePlush Yoga Ball Buddies, designed to help kids control their emotions, has been hit especially hard by Trump’s ...