8+ hour, 26+ min ago  (306+ words) The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. The much-anticipated launch comes as China prepares for its first crewed lunar landing by 2030. The astronauts on the mission are Zhu Yangzhu, the commander, Zhang Zhiyuan and…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (1726+ words) In 1997, Paul Allen offered Seattle Seahawks fans a stark choice. If state voters agreed to pay for most of a new stadium to replace the Kingdome, Allen, billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, would buy the Seattle Seahawks and stop then-owner Ken…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (629+ words) In the midst of graduation season, I've been testing some gadgets that would make great graduation gifts. Cash is a traditional gift for graduates, but I know a lot of people who like a gift to be a bit more…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (672+ words) For an unprecedented third year in a row, an irrigation district in the Yakima River basin will shut off its water for more than a week in the early growing season to conserve the resource before the looming summer drought…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (1731+ words) It was 2018, and a bruising fight over taxing Amazon to address homelessness had just eaten up months of time and money, yielding no result. The tax was repealed, leaving tensions over the fraught issue at an all-time high and Seattle…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (682+ words) Luke Collins is back in the boat. Granted, it was never guaranteed he'd be in any boat. The 6-foot-7 senior from Poulsbo is a Husky legacy, with his grandfather and cousin both competing on the UW men's rowing team. His…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1538+ words) Two men walked through livestock pens with. 22-caliber rifles, killing Art Schaap's cows. One man would raise his rifle, its barrel inches from a cow's forehead. A shot would ring out, the cow would fall, and the men would move…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (517+ words) What happens if you lose your job and never find another one? That question is at the heart of the fear AI inspires: permanent job loss accompanied by a painful reduction in quality of life. On one level, that fear…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (454+ words) Elon Musk's legal battle against Open AI has hung over the Chat GPT maker for more than two years, threatening to unravel its restructuring as a for-profit business and undermine its plans to go public. Now that a judge has…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (746+ words) A U. K. -based colleague had written about a passenger from a cruise ship sailing thousands of miles away in the Atlantic Ocean who had been evacuated and admitted to a Johannesburg hospital with suspected pneumonia. Others aboard the vessel were also…...