Новости за 20.01.2017

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says lending companies operated by Native American tribes are subject to investigation by a government regulator. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday rejected a claim by three tribes that their lending companies were protected by tribal sovereignty from investigation by the […]

The average forecast of a group of local stockbrokers is only half as good as 2016’s 13.4 percent rise in the Dow.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday quickly claimed the mantle of the White House, signing legislation allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary, as well as the nomination papers for his Cabinet choices. Less than an hour after wrapping up his inaugural address, Trump sat in an ornate room […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — On his last day as vice president, Joe Biden briefly revived a tradition he had followed faithfully as a U.S. senator: He rode the commuter train home from Washington. Biden and his wife, Jill, hopped aboard an Amtrak train bound for Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday after attending the inauguration of President […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump turned on the charm with congressional leaders as they witnessed him nominating his Cabinet. “Where’s the health care bill?” Trump joked during his first official act as president. Seated at a desk in an ornate room steps from the Senate floor, Trump the showman emerged, giving running commentary as […]

A Washington State Trooper caught Martin Briand with nearly 60 kilos of cocaine in 2009 at the Skagit Regional Airport.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Far fewer people attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday than his predecessor’s swearing-in eight years ago. Photos of the National Mall from President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 show a teeming crowd stretching from the West Front of the U.S. Capitol all the way to the Washington Monument. Photos taken from […]

Matchups for the NFC championship game Sunday between the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons: ___ When the Packers (12-6) have the ball Aaron Rodgers (12) couldn’t be hotter. After predicting the Packers would rise from 4-6, the quarterback made sure they did with some magnificent work. Expect him to throw plenty against a defense […]

Matchups for the AFC championship game Sunday between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots: ___ When the Steelers (13-5) have the ball: Pittsburgh’s best chance — some would say its only chance — is to get its big three of QB Ben Roethlisberger (7), RB Le’Veon Bell (26) and All-Pro WR Antonio Brown (84) […]

The stark “Shot” is the first installment of Spectrum’s 2017 season, collectively titled “American — Identity, Race, or Culture?” It runs through Feb. 4 at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. leaped by 35 this week to 694. A year ago, 637 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 551 rigs sought oil and 142 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed […]

The Seahawks are adding Clint Hurtt as a defensive line coach.

NEW YORK (AP) — Thelma Schoonmaker would still be working on Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” if she could. The legendary editor is sitting in the Midtown Manhattan office where she cut Scorsese’s latest, his deeply felt spiritual epic about Jesuit priests in feudal Japan. Schoonmaker sits in between her monitors and those for Scorsese, added about […]

Light-rail trains aren’t passing through the downtown transit tunnel, following a late-morning electrical problem on a stalled train.

Participants in Saturday's march for women's rights and equality in Seattle and across the country plan to don the pink hats in solidarity.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two Pennsylvania cheese businesses are being punished for selling grated Swiss and mozzarella cheeses that were fraudulently represented as Parmesan and Romano. A federal judge sentenced Universal Cheese & Drying and International Packing to three years on probation and ordered them to pay $500,000 for their convictions related to the cheese mislabeling. […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man convicted of illegally dumping human waste into a harbor while operating a floating strip club says he plans to appeal whatever sentence is imposed Friday afternoon. Hours before his sentencing, Darren Byler says in a phone interview with The Associated Press that he was targeted because of disapproval […]

There will be plenty of interactive exhibits at Sunday’s WeatherFest, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society. Lots of fun, although one exhibit might scare the bejesus out of you.

The National Labor Relations Board is expected to call for a vote in mid- to late-February to decide if the International Association of Machinists will represent the approximately 2,850 production employees in North Charleston.

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas appellate court says an inmate imprisoned for more than 35 years after his murder conviction was overturned should go free. The court on Thursday dismissed the conviction of 60-year-old Jerry Hartfield. The ruling said Hartfield went through “a criminal justice nightmare” after the state failed to retry him for decades. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Adele is set to take the stage at next month’s Grammy Awards, where she is nominated for album, song and record of the year. The Recording Academy announced Friday that Adele will perform at the Feb. 12 show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Previously announced performers include Metallica, Carrie […]

JERSEY SHORE, Pa. (AP) — A television station has found the reason one central Pennsylvania town stinks: a field of decaying radishes. WNEP-TV (http://bit.ly/2jGF7LV ) began investigating after residents of in the town of Jersey Shore complained the odor was turning the place into Funkytown. Some people thought their propane tanks were leaking. Others say […]

BOSTON (AP) — Half a world away from Washington, James Taylor is greeting fans with a video bemoaning the end of the Obama era. The singer emailed a clip from French Polynesia on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It shows him standing outside a grass hut in the rain. In his video postcard, he […]

PILLOW, Pa. (AP) — Police say a quick-thinking bank teller in Pennsylvania helped them catch a robber by tossing a GPS device into the money sack he took. Twenty-five-year-old Jacob Snyder, of Coal Township, is set to be arraigned Friday on robbery and other charges in the heist at the BB&T Bank in Pillow. Police […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A world record holding limbo dancer gave passengers waiting for a flight at the Philadelphia airport some free entertainment this week when she scooted under a bench at a terminal. Shemika Charles, who goes by “The Limbo Queen,” had a layover in Philadelphia on her way to a scheduled performance at a […]