Amazon opens public cooling center at Seattle headquarters as city bakes
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An air-conditioned meeting site at Amazon's Seattle headquarters is among dozens of public cooling centers now open in the city as the Pacific Northwest bakes in record-shattering heat.
With a 1,000-person capacity, the Amazon meeting center is among 36 locations where local residents can seek refuge amid unprecedented temperatures, the city of Seattle announced Monday on its and Amazon confirmed in an email. Many residents in the area lack air conditioning due to the region's normally temperate climate. But a so-called heat dome — a heat wave that hovers over a region — has pushed temperatures into the triple digits across the Pacific Northwest.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.