Manuel Valdes

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  • Firefighters work from a deck as the Palisades Fire burns a beach front property Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)Environment

    Los Angeles wildfires have already destroyed almost 2,000 homes and other buildings and forced 130,000 people to evacuate

    By Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden, and others
  • Boeing employees, including assembler Tyrone Hipolito, center, work the picket line after union members voted to reject a new contract offer from the company, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Finance

    Boeing woes don’t stop as workers reject latest contract offer and continue 6-week strike

    By David Koenig, Manuel Valdes, and others
  • This combination of Monday, June 17, 2024, photos, shows top row from left, a plastic turkey, a container of tennis balls, a child's helmet; and bottom row from left, a toy football, a plastic squirt gun and a Crocs shoe, found by Russ Lewis after they washed up on Long Beach Peninsula in Pacific County, Wash.Environment

    This is what happens when shipping containers fall overboard and burst open

    By Christina Larson, Helen Wieffering, and others
  • Boeing employees Cham Sin, in black, and Lou Saephanh, right center, wave signs as Boeing workers continue to strike Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, near the company’s factory in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Finance

    Boeing gives striking workers more time to consider ‘best and final’ contract offer union has already called inadequate

    By David Koenig, Lindsey Wasson, and others
  • International Aerospace Machinists union members march toward the union’s hall to vote on a contract offer with airplane maker Boeing, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)Success

    Boeing machinists vote to strike after 95% reject contract with a 25% pay increase

    By David Koenig, Manuel Valdes, and others
  • Bob FergusonHealth

    ‘They knew what the harm was. They did it anyway’: Johnson & Johnson pays $149.5 million to Washington state over opioids

    By Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden, and others
  • Jevin WestSuccess

    Americans barely have media literacy. Now teachers have to tackle ‘digital literacy.’

    By David Klepper, Manuel Valdes, and others