The Latest Could light rail across Lake Washington turn Seattle into the new Copenhagen? It’s taken 10 years and almost $4 billion, but at long last, light rail will run across Lake Washington. Aside from faster commutes, some are hopeful the new "crosslake connection" can revitalize the regional economy. Monica Nickelsburg Technology OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app. The Associated Press World Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring. The Associated Press Immigration King County limits immigration operations on county property, moves away from legal term ‘alien’ The King County Council voted on Tuesday to ban civil immigration operations from staging and processing on certain county property. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez Business Judge says government's Anthropic ban looks like punishment Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk." John Ruwitch National An air traffic controller was juggling extra roles during the LaGuardia plane crash The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's. Ayana Archie Tuesday Evening Headlines Gov. Ferguson signs AI bills to protect minors, some WA public lands will close this year due to funding, and Cesar Chavez' name will be removed from a Seattle park. Paige Browning How Bellevue's Ned Brower got from real-life nursing to 'The Pitt' Brower plays nurse Jesse Van Horn on HBO's "The Pitt." Gabrielle Healy Why Sea-Tac has been spared insanely long TSA lines...so far In many places, that has led to security checkpoint lines that stretch for blocks and have travelers waiting hours to get to their flights. But it’s been a different picture at SeaTac, at least for now. Libby Denkmann National New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million. The Associated Press Prev 13 of 1649 Next Sponsored
Could light rail across Lake Washington turn Seattle into the new Copenhagen? It’s taken 10 years and almost $4 billion, but at long last, light rail will run across Lake Washington. Aside from faster commutes, some are hopeful the new "crosslake connection" can revitalize the regional economy. Monica Nickelsburg
Technology OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app. The Associated Press
World Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring. The Associated Press
Immigration King County limits immigration operations on county property, moves away from legal term ‘alien’ The King County Council voted on Tuesday to ban civil immigration operations from staging and processing on certain county property. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Business Judge says government's Anthropic ban looks like punishment Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk." John Ruwitch
National An air traffic controller was juggling extra roles during the LaGuardia plane crash The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's. Ayana Archie
Tuesday Evening Headlines Gov. Ferguson signs AI bills to protect minors, some WA public lands will close this year due to funding, and Cesar Chavez' name will be removed from a Seattle park. Paige Browning
How Bellevue's Ned Brower got from real-life nursing to 'The Pitt' Brower plays nurse Jesse Van Horn on HBO's "The Pitt." Gabrielle Healy
Why Sea-Tac has been spared insanely long TSA lines...so far In many places, that has led to security checkpoint lines that stretch for blocks and have travelers waiting hours to get to their flights. But it’s been a different picture at SeaTac, at least for now. Libby Denkmann
National New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million. The Associated Press