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The Airlines for America trade association and several major American airlines file a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees.
2024-05-13

Escaped U.S. fugitive Danilo Cavalcante is captured in Pennsylvania by a team of tactical officers after a two week manhunt.
2023-09-13

One person is killed and nine others are missing after a floatplane crashes in the Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington, United States.
2022-09-5

After numerous cost overruns and delays, a 1.8 mi highway tunnel in Seattle, Washington, U.S., opens to traffic, becoming the largest road tunnel in the contiguous United States. It was bored using Bertha, the world's largest tunnel boring machine.
2019-02-4

Seattle's city council votes 7–2 to repeal a controversial employer head tax, which was approved a month earlier.
2018-06-12

In Seattle, Washington, a Seattle Fire Department crew, responding to reports of a natural gas leak in the Greenwood neighborhood, are caught in an explosion that injures nine firefighters. The explosion blew out windows in businesses and storefronts in the surrounding blocks, destroying three businesses and heavily damaging a fourth.
2016-03-9

Kraft Foods Group Inc. recalls more than 6.5 million 7.25-ounce (0.2-kilogram) boxes of its macaroni and cheese after customers reported finding small pieces of metal inside. The recalled products were shipped nationwide in the U.S. as well as to some countries in South America and the Caribbean.
2015-03-18

A student is shot and wounded at Albemarle High School in Albemarle, North Carolina, U.S. A student is arrested.
2014-09-30

Italy's Court of Cassation overturns the acquittals of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the murder of Meredith Kercher and orders a retrial. However, Knox, who returned home immediately upon release, is not expected to be there as the U.S. tends not to extradite its citizens to face legal action.
2013-03-26

The U.S. plans to send another 1,400 marines to Afghanistan, where approximately 100,000 U.S. troops are already engaged in the War in Afghanistan.
2011-01-6