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Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 1,000 people

At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, according to official data published overnight into Wednesday, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.

France’s environment minister resigns over emergency bill allowing 2 banned pesticides

France's minister for the environmental transition is stepping down over a controversial pesticide bill.

Beaches closed and sandbags filled as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches the Gulf Coast

Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches before Tropical Storm Bertha brings flooding and wind from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator

More than 2,000 volunteers are helping Polish scientists restore a Mastodonsaurus skeleton.

Mars Society and South Seattle College strike a deal to build a simulated space habitat

Partnership would give the Pacific Northwest a role in research missions aimed at blazing a trail to the moon and Mars. Read More

Eugenio Suárez haunts old team as Reds halt Seattle Mariners’ win streak

Former Mariner Eugenio Suárez homered and added a spectacular defensive play to rob Randy Arozarena of extra bases as Seattle fell to the Reds 4-2 at T-Mobile Park.

Baby dies in car fire near Tumwater; sibling saves toddler

A 5-month-old baby died in a car fire Tuesday in Thurston County. Another young child was rescued by a sibling.

After an extremely rare pregnancy, an Australian woman gives birth to identical quadruplet girls

An Australian woman has given birth to identical quadruplet girls after a pregnancy doctors described as incredibly rare.

WA man, sent soaring by Yellowstone bison, grateful he didn’t get gored

The community leader from Kendall suffered a fractured femur, along with serious hip and leg trauma.

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WA wildfire survivors return home to ‘black all the way around you’

One resident used a gas-powered rototiller to protect his home as the Kaiser Canyon wildfire erupted to 110 square miles. The fire remains only 1% contained.

Interlune extracts helium-3 from ordinary helium, demonstrating a process it plans to use on the moon

Seattle startup uses cryogenic distillation to produce helium-3 for quantum computing and other applications — initially on Earth, and eventually on the lunar surface. Read More