Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries cited Amazon four times over worker health and safety in its warehouses, including this facility in Kent. Amazon and L&I went to trial in July to determine whether Amazon must make changes to its operations. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Business

Amazon faces reckoning over worker safety after blocking inspectors

A faceoff with Washington regulators serves as an early test of Amazon’s authority to shape work within its warehouses, and the culmination of an investigation three years in the making.

Politics

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. The court opened its new term Monday with a calendar already full of high-profile clashes, including two cases that could end the use of race in college admissions. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg

Clarence Thomas’ $267,230 RV and the friend who financed it

Opinion

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David Brooks
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Local News

New friends Moxie Muir (5 3/4 years old) and Leo Whiteside, 5, who met just a few days before at Camp Sparkle, hang out together during “Welcome Circle” at the camp Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Moxie’s mother’s is a cancer survivor, Leo’s dad has cancer. A huge group of children and counselors attend a week-long camp for cancer patients and their families as part of Camp Sparkle held at what was once known as Gilda’s Club located at 1400 Broadway on Seattle’s Capitol Hill Wednesday, July 26, 2023. The camp offers supportive experience for any child navigating their own cancer diagnosis or a loved one’s. Campers spend a week learning about cancer, participating in therapeutic activities, and making friends with campers and counselors who are just like them. 224540

Seattle nonprofit’s summer camp offers kinship for kids touched by cancer VIEW

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For the GOP in WA, the point is to flip off the libs

Times Watchdog

The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women
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Business & Tech

This development wants residents to ditch their cars. In Phoenix VIEW

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Nation & World

Eddy Ambrose, who at age 65 discovered that he’d been switched at birth in a rural Canadian hospital, at home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on March 6, 2023. The revelation has forced Ambrose and Richard Beauvais, who was raised by Ambrose’s biological grandparents, to question who they really are, each trying to piece together a past that could have been his and to understand the implications of it. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times) XNYT0200 XNYT0200

Switched at birth, two Canadians discover their roots at 67 VIEW

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Food & Drink

Grated grana padano cheese and burrata dots the top a slice of Normie MacDonald pizza at Stevie’s Famous in Burien. 224479

Review: Burien pizza shop shakes critics with pies that defy definition VIEW

Pacific NW Magazine

Tension over ‘foxerazzi’ flares on San Juan Island

How one famous fox photo ignited a seasonal San Juan Island conflict

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Arts & Life

Sammamish resident Neha Nanubhai models a dress that she designed and made from duct tape, earning her a runner-up award in the national Stuck At Prom Scholarship Contest presented by Duck brand duct tape.

How a Skyline High School graduate made a prom dress entirely out of duct tape

Photography

Washington Huskies warmup Sunday morning at Huskies Stadium in Seattle, Washington on August 6, 2023. 224587
Husky Football

Photos: Sunday at UW football fall camp VIEW

Local News

Photos: Blue Angels roar, hydros make a splash at Seafair VIEW

Washington Huskies Germie Bernard makes a catch Saturday morning at Huskies Stadium in Seattle, Washington on August 5, 2023. 224570
Husky Football

Photos: UW Football Camp, Day 3 VIEW

Tom Barghausen is ready for a great weekend on the log boom as his boat, the Match Maker, goes through the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks heading eastbound towards Seafair in Seattle on Friday, August 4, 2023. With a group of friends who have attended Seafair on his boat for over 30 years, they are wearing white celebrating the theme of Dinner en Blanc. Every year they have a different theme and decorate the boat and dress up for it.223651, 224649
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Photos: Heading to Seafair at the Ballard Locks VIEW