Pilot Seriously Injured After Single-Engine Biplane Crashes in Lake Stevens
LAKE STEVENS — A single-engine biplane crashed Sunday evening into a residential yard near a private fly-in community north of Lake Stevens, trapping the pilot and leaving him with serious injuries. Snohomish County Fire District 22 crews were dispatched about 6:05 p.m., September 6, to the 11000 block of 127th Avenue Northeast after reports of […]
Sound Transit Floating Bridge Light Rail Linked to Mass Fish Deaths in Lake Washington
SEATTLE — Sound Transit’s new light rail line across Lake Washington, Crosslake connection and the world’s first passenger rail service on a floating bridge, is under investigation after an estimated 2,000 fish died near electrical equipment hanging from the Interstate 90 span, Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine said on Thursday, September 3, during the agency’s […]
Scores from El Salvador Students in AI Tutoring Pilot Matches Germany and Sweden on PISA Test
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Students in 171 Salvadoran public schools that took part in a year-plus education pilot featuring artificial intelligence tutors scored above the country’s national averages in reading, mathematics and science and at levels comparable to Germany and Sweden on a 2022 international benchmark, President Nayib Bukele and the World Bank said […]
Female Workers Drive Nearly All U.S. Hiring in August, Now Hold Majority of Non-Farm Payroll Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Women accounted for nearly all U.S. job growth in August, according to data released Friday, September 4, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, well above the 31,000 average monthly gain of the prior year. Women gained about 158,000 of those positions (97.5%) […]
US Military Launches Breakthrough Quantum Nav Test from Washington Waters
SEATTLE — A twin-engine Embraer 170 flew 4 hours and 23 minutes over the open Pacific this summer (exact date was not disclosed) without GPS, using quantum sensors to read Earth’s magnetic field and stay on course from Washington state’s Puget Sound to southern Alaska and back, the Defense Innovation Unit announced on September 4. […]
Isar Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Space Company to Deliver Payload into Orbit from Continental Europe
ANDØYA, Norway — Isar Aerospace, a German private rocket company, became the first to successfully launch a payload into orbit from continental Europe. “We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before. Europe now has sovereign access to space. We have entered into a new chapter for European spaceflight. […]
White House launches MAGA arcade games promoting Trump’s America First agenda
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House on Thursday launched a collection of five free, retro-style browser games on its official website that depicting President Donald J Trump’s America First policies such as securing the border, enforcing immigration law, improving the health of American children, and giving U.S. families a stake in the nation’s economy. Kaelan […]
