HOUSTON — The Mariners are returning home triumphantly. They finished off a nine-game road trip in style Wednesday evening, rallying on home runs from Cal Raleigh and Ty France and defeating AL West-leading Houston, 6-3, at Minute Maid Park. What did i…
US drone-maker aims to protect people here and in Ukraine
Blake Resnick was a 17-year-old growing up in Las Vegas when a gunman firing from a Strip hotel window killed 60 people at an outdoor concert. In that October 2017 tragedy, Resnick, an engineering prodigy, recognized an opportunity. He imagined advance…
Microsoft aims to win the race to build a new kind of computer. So does Amazon
SEATTLE — The tech giants are locked in a race. It might not end for another decade, and there might not be just one winner. But, at the finish line, the prize they promise is a speedy machine, a quantum computer, that will crack in minutes problems th…
DK Metcalf skipping Seahawks’ mandatory minicamp this week as wait for extension continues
Throughout the offseason as speculation continued on his future with the Seahawks, receiver DK Metcalf said all the right things, stating as recently as a month ago that “we’re in a good place. I’m in a good place.” But actions may be speaking more lou…
Lawsuit seeks to overturn Washington ban on sale, manufacture of large-capacity gun magazines
SEATTLE — A lawsuit backed by a California-based pro-gun group seeks to prevent Washington’s impending ban on the sale and manufacture of large-capacity firearm magazines from taking effect this summer. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court …
Mariners win rare road series by out-lasting Orioles in 10 innings
BALTIMORE — When you’ve lost more than half the games you’ve played on the road this season, and had won just one road series, even if it did come against one of the better teams in baseball in the New York Mets, it’s clear that victory will never be s…
Amid criticism of workplace injuries, Amazon signs a new safety pledge
Facing union drives, citations from state workplace regulators, lawsuits and shareholder pressure to reduce injuries, Amazon signed on to a new safety pledge Thursday. The next step in its five-year, $12 million partnership with the nonprofit National …
Unprompted, Microsoft president says employees ‘will never need to’ unionize
Stepping into the labor conversation, Microsoft said Thursday it recognized employees’ right to form and join a union but believed its own workers “will never need to organize” to facilitate conversations with executives and leaders. Seemingly unprompt…
Larry Stone: ‘It could have been any of us’: Breanna Stewart, Jewell Loyd show support for Brittney Griner
SEATTLE — Every day for weeks, the tweet from Storm forward Breanna Stewart is the same, with only the reference to the number of days in confinement changed. And ever-growing. “It has been 104 days since our friend, Brittney Griner, has been wrongfull…
Canadian airline Flair gets green light to grow and buy more Boeing 737 Maxes
Canada’s ultra-low-cost startup carrier Flair Airlines, which for two months has faced the threat of closure by government regulators over allegations that it was not controlled by Canadians, on Wednesday got the green light to continue operations. The…