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A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of a task force to fight crime, has been ar...
09/10/2026

A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of a task force to fight crime, has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in an alleged dispute over regulation haircuts.

Bangladesh has seen over 50,000 confirmed or suspected cases of measles this year. The death toll among children just su...
09/10/2026

Bangladesh has seen over 50,000 confirmed or suspected cases of measles this year. The death toll among children just surpassed 1,000. How are officials trying to bring the outbreak under control?

Prosecutors told the court that Andrew and Tristan Tate boasted about having multiple passports and flying on private je...
09/10/2026

Prosecutors told the court that Andrew and Tristan Tate boasted about having multiple passports and flying on private jets. But the Tates' lawyers argued they were only playing a role for their fans.

Over the past weeks, the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights out of Seattle’s Boeing Field has increas...
09/10/2026

Over the past weeks, the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights out of Seattle’s Boeing Field has increased. Their cargo is immigrants, many with long-standing ties to Washington state who are being flown by ICE to different facilities across the country.

Since late August nearly 500 people have been flown out of Boeing Field, according to county records. Detainees who spoke to KUOW said they’re often notified a night before a flight is supposed to happen. During the night, communications are shut down between detainees and the outside world, so they have no way of letting their lawyers or family know about plans to relocate them. The abrupt flight plans also interrupt the flow of immigration hearings scheduled in the courtrooms of the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

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New Apple CEO John Ternus announces the iPhone Duo, which folds like a passport and is the most radical iPhone design up...
09/10/2026

New Apple CEO John Ternus announces the iPhone Duo, which folds like a passport and is the most radical iPhone design update in nearly 20 years.

Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s c...
09/10/2026

Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuits allege that the Trump administration is seeking to weaken the over 50-year-old act by narrowing the law’s definition of harm to habitats where endangered species live. The second lawsuit challenges two rule changes that would reduce protections for threatened species and create a new process for designating critical habitats.

“The decisions now that the administration is making to try to roll back some of those crucial protections would do harm to the very species that this law was designed to protect,” Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said. “It is not based on any evidence or reality, and the law has proven to be effective.”

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Three Seattle police employees say they are troubled by the department’s latest choice to supervise its wellness unit. T...
09/09/2026

Three Seattle police employees say they are troubled by the department’s latest choice to supervise its wellness unit. The position is a prestigious one and involves handling sensitive disclosures from employees and their families about stress, mental health, and substance use.

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Airport security checkpoints have been the end of the line since soon after the 9/11 attacks for most friends and relati...
09/09/2026

Airport security checkpoints have been the end of the line since soon after the 9/11 attacks for most friends and relatives who want to see off departing passengers. That is changing at some U.S. airports.

The Transportation Security Administration is allowing eligible TSA PreCheck members without tickets to pass through security and enter gate areas, reviving a tradition that largely disappeared after the attacks 25 years ago this week.

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John Sipher spent nearly three decades at the CIA focused on the Russians, a core part of the agency's mission. That cha...
09/09/2026

John Sipher spent nearly three decades at the CIA focused on the Russians, a core part of the agency's mission. That changed dramatically after the al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Frankly, tracking and hunting terrorists, finding people, finding a needle in a haystack was not something that we trained for," said Sipher, who served in Moscow and later ran the agency's Russia operations at CIA headquarters.

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A group of former Amazon warehouse employees is suing the company for systemically discriminating against pregnant worke...
09/09/2026

A group of former Amazon warehouse employees is suing the company for systemically discriminating against pregnant workers, accusing the company of denying them basic accommodations and penalizing some who took breaks to pump milk or time off for hospital visits.

The four plaintiffs filed a proposed nationwide class action in a Brooklyn, New York federal court Tuesday, accusing Amazon of violating the 2022 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers with 15 or more workers to provide a “reasonable accommodation” for pregnancy and childbirth related medical conditions. To refuse an accommodation, companies must show it would create “undue hardship” for the business.

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