Bill Gates Rejects Apple's Argument Against the FBI: He doesn't think that allowing the FBI a "master key" (according to Apple CEO Tim Cook) to a phone recovered in the San Bernadino shooting investigation could affect all Apple users.

His Reasoning: “Nobody is talking about a backdoor,” Gates told the Financial Times. “This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case. It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information. Should anybody be able to get at bank records… it’s a simple question of do voters want the government, in any case, is there any case where a company should provide the information?”

Mark Zuckerberg Disagrees: “We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one,” Zuckerberg said. Also, digital rights group Fight for the Future plans to protest the FBI outside Apple Stores across the country today.

Seattle Will Pay 23rd Ave Business Owners: For weeks, Mayor Ed Murray's office had been saying that the city had no way to pay struggling 23rd Avenue businesses whose livelihoods had been choked off by a sprawling construction project along the roadway. Yesterday, Murray said he could muster $650,000 for small businesses. The city estimates there will be 20 to 30 of them; they'll get about $21,700 to $32,500 each.

Murray Was Also Defensive About Gentrification: And about statements made by Gerald Hankerson, head of the Seattle-King County NAACP. Read more here.

Capitol Hill's State Lawmakers Don't Like Rent Control: Despite the Seattle City Council's push to bring it to their attention.

Seattle Police Released Video of the Che Taylor Shooting: "A criminal record alone—no matter how long or heinous—does not give the police license to kill a person," Ansel writes.

Amazon Removes a Vancouver Serial Killer's Autobiography: Robert Pickton was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder in 2007, with 20 other charges of first-degree murder against him stayed. As far as serial killers go, he may more accurately be termed a mass murderer; he confessed to 49 murders of women, many of them First Nations, in total. Amazon, which was hosting his memoir, took the book offline yesterday.

A UW-Led Study Shows Antiretroviral Vaginal Ring Can Help Prevent HIV: Researchers are studying how the tool might be able to help women stay safe in sub-Saharan Africa. But the problem of choice remains: “She may not be able to ask or require a male partner to use a condom,” Dr. Jared Baeten told the Seattle Times. “Developing protection tools that women can use and control is incredibly empowering.”

The First Case of Zika: Has been reported in Washington State. Luckily, Washington doesn't have the type of mosquitoes that carry Zika; the man who had the virus had just come from the South Pacific.

How Might Obama Close Guantanamo? The New York Times games out the possibilities.