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United Airlines flights grounded nationwide because of computer problems

Hundreds of United Airlines flights were disrupted on Wednesday evening as the carrier grappled with a major computer system outage. The airline requested ground stops at its major hubs in the U.S.
- Joel Rose
Wednesday Evening Headlines

Another ballot drop means more local election results, Pierce County health officials are investigating a potential case of locally acquired malaria, and are you enjoying today's rain? Firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire sure are. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
- Vaughan Jones
Scientists finally solve the mystery of melting sea stars

For more than a decade, scientists studied the wasting disease but couldn’t figure out why it was happening. A new paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution details the likely culprit.
- Hans Anderson
Getting serious with Seattle’s fake news editor, The Needling’s Lex Vaughn

Soundside finds a way to make political satire unfunny
- Libby Denkmann
After an ex-DOGE staffer's assault, Trump threatens to federalize D.C. Can he?

Trump told reporters on Wednesday evening that he is considering taking over the D.C. police force and sending in the National Guard after a former DOGE staffer was hurt in an attempted carjacking.
- Rachel Treisman
A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets. Not as attractions, but for food

The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark said it would take certain surplus pets such as chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs to be "gently euthanized" and fed to its captive predators.
- Alana Wise
Nigeria’s Chronic Electricity Problems

In Africa’s most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation’s crumbling power grid cannot rely on it. And the situation isn’t improving. We go to Nigeria to see how people cope with the lack of access to power.
- Emmanuel Akinwotu
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
- Rob Stein
How famine in Gaza will impact future generations

U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing "famine-like conditions."
Struggle for access to land in central Nigeria turns bloody

Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria's fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.

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