EXPLAINER: What are ‘Crisis Standards of Care?’
BOISE, Idaho — As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care...
Contest winners, health worker orbiting world in SpaceX 1st
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four people on SpaceX’s first private flight are fairly ordinary, down-to-Earth types brought together by chance.
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In COVID-slammed Idaho, schools risk buckling hospitals
BOISE, Idaho — When Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be...
Backers of Seattle homelessness plan appeal ballot rejection
SEATTLE — Backers of a measure that would change Seattle’s approach to homelessness are appealing a judge’s decision that blocked it from the November...
Judge strikes Seattle homelessness measure from ballot
SEATTLE — A Washington state judge struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even as the city remains mired in a...
Amazon to end testing for COVID-19 at warehouses this month
Amazon will stop testing workers for COVID-19 at its warehouses at the end of this month, citing the availability of vaccines and free testing....
Amazon begins new chapter as Bezos hands over CEO role
NEW YORK — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on Monday, handing over the reins as the company navigates the challenges of...
Governor: Heat death toll at least 95 in Oregon alone
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Pacific Northwest heat wave has killed at least 95 people in Oregon alone, a number that state's governor called “absolutely...
Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights
As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across...
People along the US-Canadian border await word of reopening
BURLINGTON, Vt. — In a normal, pre-COVID-19 summer, scores of pleasure boats are anchored in Lake Champlain off the Burlington waterfront by July 4,...