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FILE – A Boeing 737 MAX 7 takes off on its first flight on March 16, 2018, in Renton, Wash. Facing severe criticism after a door plug blew out on a 737 Max over Oregon this month, Boeing said Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, that it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify the new model of the plane. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)

After Alaska Airlines 737 Max door plug blowout, Boeing is withdrawing request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of the plane

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

File – Pilots conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020. Aviation experts say the incident on Sunday in which an off-duty pilot, riding in a jump seat in a cockpit, tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can’t go. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Off-duty pilot’s attempt to switch off Horizon Air flight’s engines after using psychedelic mushrooms renews scrutiny of cockpit mental health

By Claire Rush, Gene Johnson, and others

DALLAS, TEXAS – DECEMBER 8, 2018: An Alaska Airlines passenger jet is serviced at a gate on a rainy day at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport which serves the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, metroplex area in Texas. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Off-duty pilot who tried to switch off an airplane’s engine in flight told FBI it was his first time taking psychedelic mushrooms

By Claire Rush, Gene Johnson, and others

Yellowstone River bridge collapse

Train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur spills into Montana’s Yellowstone River as bridge collapses, drinking water shut off downstream

By Matthew Brown, Gene Johnson, and others

FILE – George Coble carries a bucket of water to put out a tree still smoldering on his property destroyed by a wildfire on Sept. 12, 2020, in Mill City, Ore. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may be on the hook for billions for devastating Oregon wildfires

By Andrew Selsky, Gene Johnson, and others

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – MAY 01: A man wears a shirt against the cryptocurrency “Bitcoin”, during a protest against the government of Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, part of Labor Day, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 1, 2023. Salvadoran trade unionists and social organizations protested against the government of Nayib Bukele, due to the salary arrears, the exception regime and other public policies against union workers. On Labor Day, it intends to make visible annually the tireless struggle to enforce the rights of each person in their labor function, and that they prevail before any instance. (Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Seattle startup’s ex-CFO indicted for taking $35 million from his company and losing it in crypto crash

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

River Herber, an employee of Preserve Oregon, a marijuana shop in Salem, Oregon, rolls a joint on Jan. 31, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot…a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Marijuana growers are between a rock and a hard place as they face oversupply and interstate commerce woes: ‘I’m tired of running a failing business’

By Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, and others

FILE – Karen McRea feeds frozen fish to Keiko, star of the movie “Free Willy,” in his pen off the coast of Westman Islands, Iceland, on April 22, 1999. An ambitious plan announced last week to return a killer whale, held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium. But it also called to mind the release of Keiko, who failed to adapt to the wild after being returned to his native Iceland and died five years later. (AP Photo/Kristin Gazlay, File)

An NFL team owner and animal rights groups teamed up to return Lolita the orca to the wild after 50 years in captivity. Now the question is how

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

Gig worker Danielle Alvorado testifies before the Seattle City Council in support of the city providing permanent sick and safe time to most gig workers in the city, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Seattle. The City Council voted unanimously to make it permanent for “on-demand” gig workers on apps like DoorDash, Postmates and Instacart. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times via AP)

Most gig workers in Seattle are now entitled to paid sick leave under first law of its kind in the U.S.

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

The final Boeing 747 lands at Paine Field following a test flight, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Everett, Wash. Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, when it delivers the jumbo jet to cargo carrier Atlas Air. Since it debuted in 1969, the 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft, but it has been rendered obsolete by more profitable and fuel-efficient models. (Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times via AP)

Boeing is delivering its last iconic 747 jumbo jet today, ending the era of a plane that revolutionized travel

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – The sun dial near the Legislative Building is shown under cloudy skies, March 10, 2022, at the state Capitol in Olympia, Wash. An effort to balance what is considered the nation’s most regressive state tax code comes before the Washington Supreme Court on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in a case that could overturn a prohibition on income taxes that dates to the 1930s. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Washington passed a 7% capital gains tax to balance the nation’s most regressive tax code. The wealthy and business groups fought back

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

the logos of social media applications, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, WeChat, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook are displayed on the screen of an iPhone

Seattle public schools’ lawsuit against media giants like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook faces uncertain legal road

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 10: US President Joe Biden speaks during an event hosted by the Democratic National Party at the Howard Theatre on November 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. The President and Vice President are speaking after the Democratic Party had a historically successful midterm election, fending off what was predicted to be a Red Wave. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

A Trump-appointed judge has issued another legal setback for Biden’s student loan-forgiveness plan

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

Meta fined $25 million for failing to reveal the buyers and targets of political ads it ran

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – In this March 15, 2020 file photo people wait in a line to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif. The man who shot and killed four people this week at a Tulsa, Okla., hospital bought his AR-style semiautomatic rifle just hours before he began the killing spree. That would not have been possible in Washington and a half dozen other states that have waiting periods of days or even more than a week before people can take possession of such weapons. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

When it comes to gun purchases, just 9 states and D.C. have waiting periods. Among those who don’t: the federal government

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press