Новости за 20.08.2017

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Wearing shirts honoring victims of the recent attacks in Spain, Barcelona opened its Spanish league season with a comfortable 2-0 win over Real Betis on Sunday. Players had the word “Barcelona” instead of their names on the back of their shirts, and the Catalan hashtag “TOTSSOMBARCELONA” (We are all Barcelona) was […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA is investigating whether the Los Angeles Lakers tampered with All-Star forward Paul George while he was under contract with the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers asked the league to open the probe. “The Lakers have been cooperative and, at this point, no findings have been made,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass […]

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It could have gotten very uncomfortable as Erik Jones and Matt Kenseth sat side-by-side shortly after an intriguing race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Both drivers wanted to win for very different reasons, both came up short , then circumstances put them together in a post-race news conference. Jones, the rookie, was […]

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The sight of defensive end Chris Long putting his arm around Eagles teammate Malcolm Jenkins during the national anthem inspired Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Cameron Jefferson to make his own statement. Jefferson raised his fist in what he called a silent, peaceful gesture protesting racial inequality before the Bills’ preseason […]

Former Shorewood pitcher Blake Snell shut down the Mariners and ended Seattle's chance at a series sweep Sunday in Tampa Bay.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators are pledging to work quickly to update the North American Free Trade Agreement, a 23-year-old pact that President Donald Trump has called the worst trade deal in history. The first round of NAFTA renegotiations talks were wrapped up Sunday. The three countries said they planned to meet […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Traffic was still moving relatively well in Oregon on Sunday, a day before the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the United States since 1918. The eclipse is expected to draw up to a million people and clog roadways in Oregon — where the moon’s shadow will first make landfall. Crowds […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is defending President Trump’s response to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejecting calls from a group of his Yale University classmates that he resign from the administration in protest. In a statement issued by the Treasury Department, Mnuchin says “the president in no way, shape or […]

MADRAS, Ore. (AP) — Officials say additional investigation has revealed that only one person died in a small plane crash near the airport in Madras, Oregon. Officials originally reported that two people died in the Saturday afternoon crash. Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins said Sunday that investigators have determined that only the pilot was aboard […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge Sunday at a bond hearing for the men. An […]

SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) — Officials are investigating what caused an early morning fire that heavily damaged a popular New England seafood restaurant. Firefighters got a call shortly before 3 a.m. about the fire at Brown’s Lobster Pound in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Seabrook firefighter Barry Sargent says the fire destroyed the rear of the building and […]

LONDON (AP) — Any doubts Antonio Conte had about his Chelsea players were dispelled with a victory over Tottenham that lifted the gloom surrounding the champions. With a 2-1 victory on Sunday secured through Marcos Alonso’s double, the Premier League champions are finally up and running after a tough couple of weeks. Defeat to Arsenal […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball umpires have ended their protest of what they called “abusive player behavior” after Commissioner Rob Manfred offered to meet with their union’s governing board. Most umpires wore white wristbands during Saturday’s games after Detroit second baseman Ian Kinsler was fined but not suspended for his recent verbal tirade […]

For more than three decades, American, Mexican and Canadian businesses have relied on and benefited from NAFTA.

Though fewer Washington college students are taking remedial classes, Washington state can do a lot more to improve.

The biggest insult, the gravest disservice of President Donald Trump’s giving comfort to Hitler sympathizers is to those who fought to save the world from evil more than 70 years ago.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. started its car-sharing service, Maven, just over a year ago, placing Chevrolets and Cadillacs in New York apartment buildings for occupants to rent. Since then, the service has grown exponentially. Maven is still working with apartment dwellers, but it is also offering hourly and daily rental cars in 17 […]

CAPERS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued eight boaters from a grounded 21-foot recreational boat near an island located about 15 miles north of Charleston, South Carolina. The Coast Guard command center in Charleston received a call early Saturday advising that the boat had run aground on a sandbar near […]

Millions of Americans are converging on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday. It will be the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast-to-coast across the U.S. in 99 years. With 200 million people within a day’s drive of the path of totality, […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based zoo and conservation society announced Sunday that it would not to hold its annual gala at President Trump’s Florida resort. The decision by the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society is the latest by a charity to move fundraisers from the Mar-a-Lago resort since Trump made comments […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Parks officials in Kansas City, Missouri, say an 83-year-old Confederate memorial will be removed after it was vandalized. The Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy asked Kansas City Parks and Recreation officials to remove the monument from its current location to a place of safety. That request […]

Follow here for live updates and analysis as the Mariners (63-61) go for a series sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays (60-65).

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say at least 33 people have been wounded, six fatally, in weekend shootings in the nation’s third-largest city. The Chicago Tribune reports the shootings happened in just a 13-hour period ending early Sunday. Police say someone in an SUV fired at a crowd outside a South Side banquet hall that […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A lengthy criminal investigation that has put U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez in the crosshairs of a federal corruption indictment — and placed Democrats in peril of losing a key seat — will ultimately rest in the hands of 12 residents from New Jersey, a state he’s represented in Congress for more […]

Says Carta-Samuels: "When you feel like you can throw ball anywhere at any time, it’s a pretty powerful feeling."