A ferry and the Seattle skyline are seen at sunset from West Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
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Here, CH2M HILL workers are shown separating and pulling the highly contaminated glove boxes from the glove box connection point. Workers wear layers of personal protection equipment. Photo date: 06.01.2013
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Cyberattacks grind Hanford nuclear energy workers’ benefit program to a halt

Cyberattacks forced the federal government to abruptly shut down claims processing for sickened nuclear workers this week, potentially affecting more than 550 Hanford workers seeking federal benefits.

Seattle school district buses parked in the First Student bus lot at 13525 Lake City Way. The school district isn’t able to provide bus transportation for many of the kids who have gone back to in person school because of a shortage of drivers. 217087
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Colleen Gregoire holds a photo of her son, Bobby, on the porch in front of her Bellevue home Thursday, May 6, 2021. Bobby died of a drug overdose last October when he was only 20 years old. He bought a pill off the street, thinking it was percocet, but it was laced with fentanyl. There were more fatal drug overdoses in Washington in 2020 than any year prior. Colleen has started giving presentations in schools and to kids about the dangers of unmarked pills and how you don’t know what’s in them. 217030
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The major contenders for Seattle mayor are from top left to right, Andrew Grant Houston, Bruce Harrell, M. Lorena González, Casey Sixkiller. Bottom left to right, Colleen Echohawk, Lance Randall and Jessyn Farrell.
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Chuck and Joan Eck in 1955, the year they married. He was then working at the Mason County Journal. Chuck worked at The Seattle Times as a desk and make-up editor from the mid-1960s to 1991. Joan worked as a desk editor either as a contractor or full-time from 1970 to 2001.
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Using its wings as flippers, the puffin dives into the water to catch small fish. With their beaks full, they return to their burrows with food for their chicks. This image was taken in Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.
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Friday, April 2, 2021. The Adams Nielson Solar Farm looms over the town of Lind in central Washington State. Called the Adams Nielson Solar Farm, it produces 28 megawatts of electricity from it’s 200 acres of solar panels, enough to prower 4,000 homes. 216802
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People line up to get the COVID-19 vaccine, waiting to go inside a new vaccination site that has been set up at the Auburn Outlet Collection in Auburn, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The site will accommodate six times the number of people of the previous Auburn site. Appointments are required. One man walking towards the line called out — “This is so exciting.” 216763
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As a passenger pulls down his mask, a TSA agent checks his I. D. before he can head through security at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac Thursday, September 24, 2020. Governor Jay Inslee spoke at a press conference Thursday, September 24, 2020, about security measures that will be required at Washington state airports. These measures have already been set in place at Sea-Tac International Airport. 215173
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The Huskies enter an empty stadium to start their season. The Oregon State Beavers played the University of Washington Huskies in Pac-12 football Saturday, November 14, 2020 at Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA. 215661
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Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks at City Hall in Seattle on June 12, 2018. Sawant admitted to improperly using city money, employees and other resources to support a proposed ballot measure in a settlement agreement with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission. (Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press, file)
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Akila Rajan, a senior at Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, writes about the benefits of online learning and community. Photographed Wednesday, May 5, 2021 217058
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Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. The audit, ordered by the Arizona Senate, has the U.S. Department of Justice saying it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) AZMY111 AZMY111

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People line up to get the COVID-19 vaccine, waiting to go inside a new vaccination site that has been set up at the Auburn Outlet Collection in Auburn, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The site will accommodate six times the number of people of the previous Auburn site. Appointments are required. One man walking towards the line called out — “This is so exciting.” 216763

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FILE — The Microsoft store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, April 4, 2017. Microsoft’s quarterly earnings released on Jan. 31, 2018 showed overall revenues of $28.92 billion, up 12 percent from the year prior, driven in part by substantial growth in its cloud computing business. (John Taggart/The New York Times) XNYT135

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Children hold their training weapons, some real and some fake, during a display for the media designed to attract the federal government’s attention to the dangers of organized crime that their town negotiates daily in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. International organizations have condemned the “recruitment” of children and warned of the effects. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) MXMU109 MXMU109

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FILE – In this April 19, 2021, file photo, Keidy Ventura, 17, receives her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in West New York, N.J. States across the country are dramatically scaling back their COVID-19 vaccine orders as interest in the shots wanes, putting the goal of herd immunity further out of reach. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NYAG506 NYAG506

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FILE – This Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo shows fliets of Copper River Salmon from Alaska in Seattle. Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found. The work, published in the Thursday, May 9, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine, makes clearer who does and does not benefit from taking supplements of omega-3 fatty acids, the good oils found in fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Concert goers will enter the glassed Alaska Airlines Atrium, seen from the air at lower left, which borders the south side of Climate Pledge Arena as construction continues, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Seattle. Acoustic treatments to be installed inside the pyramid roof are aimed to enhance live music experiences. 216637

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Director Steven Soderbergh attends a premiere for “The Laundromat” on day five of the Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Toronto. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) CANPM120

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“I’m so relieved,” said Elaine Stevens as she gets her second vaccine shot from Dawda Cham, a nurse practitioner with 6M Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine, the sponsor of the clinic. “I’m just ready for this to all be over,” said Stevens about the pandemic. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle hosts a coronavirus vaccine clinic for the community Thursday May 6, 2021. 217039
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Keira Sweeney looks up at an Allosaurus, the largest meat eater during the late Jurassic Period, featured in the Dinosaur Discovery exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The zoo’s new exhibit features dozens of “the world’s largest and most life-like dinosaurs.” Visitors are able to learn more about the historic creatures as the dinosaurs move, breathe and roar throughout the exhibit. The exhibit was created by Dino Don Inc., the only maker of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, which are featured in zoos and museums around the world, according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
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LINESONLY For the first time since closing in the pandemic, the pedestrian bridges at the Ballard Locks were open to foot traffic Wednesday, April 28, 2021. So too was the first floor of the Visitor’s Center. The pedestrian bridges connected two neighborhoods separated by the canal. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said the fish ladder however will remain closed due to an impending maintenance project. 216958
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LO Deputy Mayor of Des Moines Matt Mahoney, left, and Vice President of Washington Scuba Alliance Randy Williams come out of the water after searching for trash with a traffic cone and a dish washer lid during the Underwater Cleanup Day event near Redondo Pier in Des Moines on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Dozens of divers turned out and collected 65 pounds of trash to help protect marine wildlife near the Redondo Beach Pier on Saturday. Divers pulled up items such as fishing lures, a traffic cone, a dishwasher lid, plastics, batteries and automotive parts. The amount of trash was smaller than previous cleanup days where divers have pulled anywhere from 100-400 pounds at sites such as the Des Moines Marina and Seacrest Ferry Dock in West Seattle. “It’s nice when you can pull up a lot, but really any little bit makes a difference,” SR3 executive director Casey Mclean said. “Sixty-five pounds of trash is now out of the ocean” which helps protect marine wildlife and “prevent micro plastics from getting into the fish and into humans.” The cleanup day was organized by Seattle Dive Tours, SR3 (Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research), and MaST Center Aquarium.
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