The Latest Law & Courts Is the Google antitrust ruling a ‘big whiff,’ or an advantage for rivals like Microsoft? In a closely watched antitrust case, a federal judge ruled this week that Google has to share search results and some data with rival companies. But the judge ruled Google does not have to sell off Chrome, its ubiquitous web browser. What could this ruling mean for our homegrown tech behemoth Microsoft, and other search engine rivals of Google? GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop looked into that and other questions in a new piece. He told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm what he found. Kim Malcolm Politics Former state senator accused of rape rejected in bid to join KUOW board KUOW’s board of directors Thursday rejected the nomination of former state Sen. Joe Fain to the radio station’s governing body. Catharine Smith Inside KUOW KUOW statement: Joe Fain's KUOW board seat bid ends after review Former State Senator Joe Fain's candidacy for KUOW board of directors has ended. KUOW stands by its reporting on rape allegations against Fain. KUOW Thursday Evening Headlines WA's top health official issues order that anyone can get a Covid vaccine, tariffs will cost jobs and raise prices in WA according to new report, and undercover cops will attend Seahawks games, dressed as opposing fans. Paige Browning Politics What's lobbying got to do with it? Lobbying is one of the most-hated jobs in America according to polling. But lobbyists have a big impact on what ends up in state and local legislation and the laws we all live under. Scott Greenstone Economy New report predicts tariffs could send shockwaves across WA economy The financial fallout from federal trade policy in Washington state is beginning to come into focus. Monica Nickelsburg Latin America US coffee tariffs stir trouble for Brazil, but opportunity for Colombia A 50% U.S. tariff on Brazilian coffee just kicked in — and it’s shaking up global supply chains. As American roasters scramble for alternatives, Colombia is cashing in. But how long will the beans — and prices — hold? Christine Arrasmith K-pop boy band Stray Kids' album 'Karma' debuts at the top of the Billboards KPop Demon Hunters is still doing great on the Billboard charts. But another K-pop juggernaut debuts in the top spot for albums. That'd be the boy band Stray Kids, whose new album is titled Karma. Stephen Thompson National Maine residents hold a party to toast with their future neighbors... at the cemetery In Weld, Maine, anyone who owns a plot at the Mountain View Cemetery is invited to a yearly gathering at the undertaker's home -- a chance to "get to know who you'll spend eternity with," locals say. Grace Benninghoff Science This week in science: Recycling innovation, scrolling dangers and the inside of Mars NPR's Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about an innovation in plastic recycling, the link between smartphones and hemorrhoids and what Mars' structure and ice cream have in common. Regina G. Barber Prev 481 of 1650 Next Sponsored
Law & Courts Is the Google antitrust ruling a ‘big whiff,’ or an advantage for rivals like Microsoft? In a closely watched antitrust case, a federal judge ruled this week that Google has to share search results and some data with rival companies. But the judge ruled Google does not have to sell off Chrome, its ubiquitous web browser. What could this ruling mean for our homegrown tech behemoth Microsoft, and other search engine rivals of Google? GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop looked into that and other questions in a new piece. He told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm what he found. Kim Malcolm
Politics Former state senator accused of rape rejected in bid to join KUOW board KUOW’s board of directors Thursday rejected the nomination of former state Sen. Joe Fain to the radio station’s governing body. Catharine Smith
Inside KUOW KUOW statement: Joe Fain's KUOW board seat bid ends after review Former State Senator Joe Fain's candidacy for KUOW board of directors has ended. KUOW stands by its reporting on rape allegations against Fain. KUOW
Thursday Evening Headlines WA's top health official issues order that anyone can get a Covid vaccine, tariffs will cost jobs and raise prices in WA according to new report, and undercover cops will attend Seahawks games, dressed as opposing fans. Paige Browning
Politics What's lobbying got to do with it? Lobbying is one of the most-hated jobs in America according to polling. But lobbyists have a big impact on what ends up in state and local legislation and the laws we all live under. Scott Greenstone
Economy New report predicts tariffs could send shockwaves across WA economy The financial fallout from federal trade policy in Washington state is beginning to come into focus. Monica Nickelsburg
Latin America US coffee tariffs stir trouble for Brazil, but opportunity for Colombia A 50% U.S. tariff on Brazilian coffee just kicked in — and it’s shaking up global supply chains. As American roasters scramble for alternatives, Colombia is cashing in. But how long will the beans — and prices — hold? Christine Arrasmith
K-pop boy band Stray Kids' album 'Karma' debuts at the top of the Billboards KPop Demon Hunters is still doing great on the Billboard charts. But another K-pop juggernaut debuts in the top spot for albums. That'd be the boy band Stray Kids, whose new album is titled Karma. Stephen Thompson
National Maine residents hold a party to toast with their future neighbors... at the cemetery In Weld, Maine, anyone who owns a plot at the Mountain View Cemetery is invited to a yearly gathering at the undertaker's home -- a chance to "get to know who you'll spend eternity with," locals say. Grace Benninghoff
Science This week in science: Recycling innovation, scrolling dangers and the inside of Mars NPR's Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about an innovation in plastic recycling, the link between smartphones and hemorrhoids and what Mars' structure and ice cream have in common. Regina G. Barber