,1,A search is underway for a missing submersible that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The submersible had five people on board when it was reported missing on Sunday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said that a search was underway Monday about 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Everett-based OceanGate Expeditions confirmed it owns the missing vessel.
“We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely,” the company said in a statement to KING 5. “Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families.”
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,1,Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger gives an update on a missing submersible in the Atlantic Ocean on June 19, 2023.
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,1,The Voter Research Project reported it found 444 “voter anomalies” in King County through its research and that each represented “…potential fraud, waste or error.”
But an investigation by KING 5 shows that many aren’t anomalies at all. A representative for the owner said that about two dozen trailer owners live at the park. Some people have lived there for more than 20 years
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,1,A concerning amount of antisemitic incidents are happening across the United States. This comes after the U.S. saw a dramatic rise in antisemitic reports in 2021.
The Anti-Defamation League is pointing to social media as a root cause and saying combatting misinformation is more important than ever.
"These are themes that are driving people to violent action that they are initially seeing online," said Oren Segal who is the Vice President of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. He said there's already been a shift since Elon Musk took over Twitter.
"So Kanye West is the perfect example of how concerning this is and why the Jewish community feels so vulnerable right now. He has more followers on Twitter than there are Jews on the planet earth," said Segal.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been dropped by many business partners because of his anti-Jewish comments made on social media.
"It normalizes antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate and normalizes that sense of othering of a group of people which is plaguing our entire society right now," said Will Berkovitz who is a Rabbi and also the CEO of Jewish Family Service, which serves those in need in the community, including refugees and those struggling with homelessness. Berkovitz said his organization was targeted by hate speech a couple of months ago.
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,1,In a virtual address to Congress on March 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned plea for the West to provide more help against Russia.
,1,KING 5 Evening rang in 2021 in Seattle with “New Year’s at the Needle.” The show featured a first-ever virtual display from the Space Needle. The virtual display, which a Seattle-based entrepreneur helped develop, used sky-mapping technology and video footage to create a digital artistic presentation.
Due to the pandemic, there were not any in-person events at the Space Needle this year, so viewers watched the display safely from their own homes.
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,1,Even these circles at Kandle Park in Tacoma have a COVID-19 connection.
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,1,You may think racism in America is caused by a few bad apples. But this animation shows how it's a systemic problem.
The history of racism in America goes back hundreds of years. In the 17th and 19th centuries, white men needed land so they took it from Indigenous people and then enslaved Black people to work the land. To justify using free labor, the whites in power promoted a myth that Black people were inferior.
White Americans now hold 85% of this country's wealth. Black Americans hold just over 4% and Hispanics hold just over 3%. People of color are statistically more likely to be impoverished, incarcerated and face discrimination in health care.
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