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A worker leaves Boeing’s Renton plant Wednesday morning, May 27, 2020. Boeing announced to employees Wednesday a first batch of almost 7,000 involuntary layoffs in the U. S., which added to more than 5,500 voluntary layoffs. It will cut almost 12,300 jobs company-wide. 214067

Boeing to cut thousands more employees as losses mount

Boeing said Wednesday it will shrink its workforce further, almost doubling the planned cut to 19% of the workforce. By the end of next year it will employ 31,000 fewer people company-wide than at the beginning of this year.

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Kristine Sommer, left, and Adam Shigem at their waterfront home near Port Orchard. MONEY MAKEOVER 215341
Money Makeover

Her professional rugby career means resetting some financial goals

Kristine Sommer and her fiancé Adam Shigem have some familiar financial issues, like how to pay off student loans and save for a home remodel. They also have one unconventional money challenge. Here's what they learned from a Money Makeover.

Jerod Shelby, founder of Richland-based SSC North America, and his 24-employee company’s newest car, the Tuatara, is now officially the fastest production car, according to Guinness World Records.
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A lone person leaves an Amazon building in South Lake Union Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Amazon is extending its work-from-home plan through June of 2021. 215450 215450
Amazon

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Just across the street from Amazon’s headquarters (at left), Google is opening Phase 1 of its South Lake Union campus, a five-building mixed-used complex designed by Vulcan. The 600,000-foot project will double Google’s footprint in the Seattle area. Both of the buildings in the background are occupied by Google. Amazon’s Fiona building (at left) is one block south over Mercer St. from Google’s new office space in South Lake Union in Seattle, shot Thursday, October 3, 2019. 211675
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Ashley Tolley opens the Cash App in Travelers Rest, S.C., Sept. 29. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times)
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A photo provided by the artist Paolo Cirio shows his exhibit called “Capture,” for which he collected police officers’ faces from 1,000 photos he had gathered from the internet and from photographers who attended protests in France. He described the project as the first step in developing a facial recognition app. (Paolo Cirio via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED xxxxxx BY KASHMIR HILL FOR OCT. xx, 2020. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —
Technology

Activists turn facial recognition tools against police

An employee of Red Bluff Tap House puts out an open sign on Saturday morning. Red Bluff Tap House waited to reopen after Skamania County was one of the first to move into Phase 2. The tap room opened with fewer staff and limited seating to the required 50% capacity. Saturday, May 23, 2020 214023
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Boeing 737 MAX

After losing both engines soon after take-off, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed his US Airways A320 on New York’s Hudson River in 2009, saving the passengers and crew.

Celebrated pilot Capt. Sully urges further updates to Boeing’s 737 MAX

FAA chief Steve Dickson lands a Boeing 737 MAX at Boeing Field in Seattle after concluding a test flight on September 30, 2020. Dickson, who previously flew for Delta Air Lines, piloted the plane on a planned two-hour test flight, one of the final steps before he grants approval for the MAX to fly passengers again. The MAX has been grounded since March 2019, after the second of two deadly crashes that killed 346 people. The MAX Dickson is flying includes flight control design changes to prevent the scenario that played out on the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crash flights. 215162

FAA details minimum pilot training, a key step for 737 MAX ungrounding

FAA chief Steve Dickson walks out of a Boeing 737 MAX, after concluding a test flight and landing at Boeing Field in Seattle on September 30, 2020. Dickson, who previously flew for Delta Air Lines, piloted the plane on a planned two-hour test flight, one of the final steps before he grants approval for the MAX to fly passengers again. The MAX has been grounded since March 2019, after the second of two deadly crashes that killed 346 people. The MAX Dickson is flying includes flight control design changes to prevent the scenario that played out on the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crash flights. 215162

FAA chief Dickson likes what he found piloting a 737 MAX test flight  WATCH

Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

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Technology

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Real Estate

During Gov. Inslee’s stay-home order during the coronavirus, an eastward-looking view of Seattle homes with Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains in the background are seen from above 32nd Ave. NE, between 65th and 62nd streets, Saturday, April 4, 2020 in Seattle. The view looks across Northeast Seattle toward View Ridge. 213566

Seattle-area home prices growing faster than all but one other major U.S. metro area

Retail

Amazon launches Swedish site in 1st leg of Nordic expansion

Maritime Industry

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Boeing & Aerospace

A worker leaves Boeing’s Renton plant Wednesday morning, May 27, 2020. Boeing announced to employees Wednesday a first batch of almost 7,000 involuntary layoffs in the U. S., which added to more than 5,500 voluntary layoffs. It will cut almost 12,300 jobs company-wide. 214067

Boeing to cut thousands more employees as losses mount

Amazon

Amazon launches Swedish site in 1st leg of Nordic expansion

Amazon at 25

FILE – In this file photo made Nov. 16, 2009, Stephen Guymon, of Twin Falls, Idaho, separates packages for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq. ft. Amazon.com warehouse in Goodyear, Ariz. Amazon.com Inc., reports quarterly earnings Thursday, April 22, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin file) NYBZ139

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Microsoft

This combination of 2018-2020 photos shows, from left, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias. Democrats are trying to expand the discussion to include other issues such as the companies’ heavy impact on local news. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, LM Otero, Jens Meyer) WX120 WX120

Report released by Sen. Maria Cantwell slams Google and Facebook for decimating local news outlets

Economy

A patient is being transferred from the Gemelli COVID-19 hospital in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Italy’s leader, Premier Giuseppe Conte, has imposed at least a month of new restrictions to fight rising coronavirus infections, shutting down gyms, pools and movie theaters and putting an early curfew on cafes and restaurants. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ALT103 ALT103

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Money Makeovers

Connor Durham and his partner Beth Leonard are seen outside their duplex, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 in Seattle. The couple is profiled in a Money Makeover. 214822

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Markets

In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, specialist Gregg Maloney works at his post on the trading floor, Wednesday Oct. 28, 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 943 points Wednesday as surging coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Europe threaten more business shutdowns and pain for the economy. (Courtney Crow/New York Stock Exchange via AP) NYRD305 NYRD305

Dow slides more than 900 points as rising coronavirus counts threaten fragile recovery

Artificial Intelligence

Fatima Abu Zeid , a mother of 6 children shows her biometric ID card at the Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on February 25,2020. Israel upgraded its West Bank checkpoints with facial recognition technology to verify Palestinians’ identities as they cross into Israel. The new system is helping to shorten the amount of time it takes to cross the checkpoints but the use of the technology is drawing criticism about the role the controversial technology plays in Israel’s military control over Palestinians. (Photo by Heidi Levine for The Seattle Times).

A tale of two AI cities: The Seattle connection to Israel's surveillance network

Local Business

At Membrion’s research facility a bottle of mask coating is seen Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 in Seattle. Membrion researchers are working on an electrostatic spray to improve the ability of cloth masks to filter out virus-containing droplets and aerosols. 215334

Seattle company says its spray treatment could make cloth masks more effective against COVID-19

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General Electric, First Solar rise; Callaway, Carnival fall

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Wednesday: First Solar Inc., up $10.92 to $93.31. The largest U.S. solar company reported surprisingly strong third-quarter profits and revenue. Automatic Data Processing Inc., up $9.05 to $155.08. The payroll and human resources company beat analysts’ fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue forecasts. Callaway Golf...

Agriculture

These quarters are part of a Gebbers Farms, a seasonal labor camp in Okanogan County. This photo was taken prior to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had yet to arrive and the wearing of masks was not required.

Mexican workers who left mid-harvest describe a COVID-ridden cherry season in Okanogan County: ‘It was like we were disposable’

Careers

High costs for hospital care and prescription drugs are causing more employers to be open to government regulation. (Dreamstime / TNS)

Job-based health insurance costs are up 4% this year, 55% in past decade

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