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Washington becomes the first U.S. state to legalize human composting, the right to allow people to have their body turned into soil after death. The process is seen as an alternative to traditional cremations and burials.
2019-05-21

The Seattle City Council unanimously votes to give Uber, Lyft, and other contract drivers the power to join trade unions. The Washington city becomes the first in the United States to do so. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray opposes the bill which can still become law without his signature. Court challenges are expected.
2015-12-14

Xi Jinping begins his first visit to the United States as President of the People's Republic of China, meeting with technology company leaders and representatives in Seattle, Washington.
2015-09-22

Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
2015-02-26

A landslide kills two people, and injures six in Oso, Washington, United States.
2014-03-22

An EA-6B Prowler military plane crashes about 50 miles west of Spokane, Washington, United States, and kills three American Navy crew members.
2013-03-11

A massive car crash on I-65 in Kentucky, United States, leaves 6 people from Wisconsin dead and 2 injured.
2013-03-2

Singer Alex Sparrow is seriously injured and in intensive care in Los Angeles, United States, after a high speed car crash.
2013-01-23

A fire destroys 20 homes on the Yakama Indian Reservation in the US state of Washington.
2011-02-12

All 3 dead in US small plane crash in southwest Washington state, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Morton.
2010-10-26