Technology

A center-left tech group funded by Google, Apple and other companies is calling on the Biden administration to come to the defense of the industry's embattled liability shield, Section 230, in a high-stakes legal case picked up by the Supreme Court.

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which came close to collapse in the closing stretches, ended with a deal to create a fund to pay poorer countries for the harm caused by climate change. 

Dakota the “dino mummy” has fascinated paleontologists and the public since part of the fossil was first untombed in North Dakota with some of its skin preserved.

It's been a wild several days reporting on Elon Musk and Twitter. On Oct. 27, the world's richest man completed his acquisition of the social media company and immediately fired the firm's CEO and three of its other top executives. Since then, Musk's lieutenants have been at work inside the company, meeting with senior managers and drawing up layoff plans.

WASHINGTON — One of the most underappreciated high-stakes legislative fights in recent memory — featuring some of the strangest political bedfellows — is coming soon to a lame-duck session near you. 

A 9-5 vote of the panel followed months of contentious public testimony about the change, part of a carbon reduction effort mandated in state law and pushed by Gov. Jay Inslee to reduce emissions and increase energy efficiency. The council voted in April to require new commercial construction to switch to heat pumps, devices that primarily use electricity to heat a home in a method that is the reverse of an air conditioner in the summer. Now, home builders will be required to follow the same rules with new construction.

Jerry White Jr., the Spokane Riverkeeper, characterized the results of the study not as an alarm, but as a notice that the chemicals were not just in the firefighting foam that seeped into the groundwater on the West Plains but also in discontinued versions of common consumer products including Teflon and Scotchgard. The study was produced by the Waterkeeper Alliance, which is based in New York, and includes data from waterways in 29 states and Washington, D.C.

Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, appeared to confirm reports that the platform is considering charging people $20 to maintain the coveted blue check mark of verification on their account in an exchange with horror author Stephen King.

The rush to sow doubt about the assault on Pelosi's husband illustrates how aggressively influential figures on the right are seeking to dissuade the public from believing facts about the violence, seizing on the event to promote conspiracy theories and provoke distrust. The House speaker has long been a bugbear for the right, which has intensified its rhetorical blitz on her in recent years - even as extreme threats against members of Congress have increased.

Less than four hours after Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott (D) announced last year that she planned to run for Congress, an email calling her a "slimey, ignorant c---" appeared in the inbox she uses for legislative business.

Two weeks out from the Nov. 8 midterms, President Joe Biden sat for an interview — not with a broadcast news anchor or major newspaper, but a panel of six young activists organized by NowThis News. 

As the sun begins to rise Tuesday, the moon will wedge itself into Earth’s orbit to put on a celestial show – part of one, anyway.

Whitworth said the breach may have affected 5,182 residents of Washington state, though it's unclear how many more out-of-state residents employed or attending the school could be affected. 

LOS ANGELES - In April 2016, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took the stage in front of rows of creators at the company's second ever "Creator Summit" in Los Angeles. The event was a gathering of some of the internet's biggest stars, and Wojcicki was there to listen to their concerns and feedback.

LOS ANGELES — It's been 45 years since NASA's Voyager spacecraft blasted off from Earth, but the twin explorers still call home from billions of miles away.

Sen. Maria Cantwell toured Altek Manufacturing's 50,000 square-foot facility in Liberty Lake on Tuesday. Altek makes plastic and metal parts that end up in satellites, airplanes, medical equipment and other products.