Новости за 18.10.2018

While consumers can’t do much about the stock market other than figure out how they want to ride out the bumps and rolls, they can take steps that will improve their net worth by digging in on their debt

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant has been dropped from the jury of an animated film festival after calls for the former NBA star’s ouster over a 2003 rape allegation. Eric Beckman is the CEO of the organization behind the Animation Is Film Festival. He wrote in a statement Wednesday that the festival’s stakeholders decided […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five Arkansas Supreme Court justices are challenging efforts to sanction them over the court’s decision to disqualify a judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration from hearing any execution-related cases. The justices filed a lawsuit challenging the charges related to the court’s decision to prohibit Pulaski County Circuit Judge […]

DETROIT (AP) — Remains of an Army pilot and an observer killed more than 50 years ago when their plane went down in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War will be buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Defense Department’s POW/MIA Accounting Agency says ceremonies for Staff Sgt. Marshall Kipina of […]

With $20.2 million raised, the pro I-1634 campaign now trails only the fossil fuels-industry backed opposition to a statewide carbon tax among the largest campaigns this election cycle, and ranks among the best-funded initiative campaigns in state history.

WASHINGTON (AP) — If it’s an “America First” presidency, where does that rank human rights? President Donald Trump’s refusal to put public pressure on Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is raising a question that has dogged his foreign policy. In dealing with Russia, across Asia and, this week, in the Mideast, […]

Victor Rodriguez takes Nicolas Lodeiro's center midfield spot, while Cristian Roldan stays on the right wing and rookie Handwalla wana joins them on the left as the Sounders attempt to clinch a 10th straight post-season berth today at Orlando City.

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In choosing not to pull its endorsement of state Sen. Joe Fain, the editorial board sides with a fundamentally broken system that tells women who do summon the extraordinary courage necessary to come forward and speak publicly about their sexual assaults that their voices, their experiences, and their identities simply don’t matter.

For decades, Washington has had the most restrictive law in the country when it comes to holding police officers criminally liable for unjustified uses of deadly force. Voters should change that by passing Initiative 940.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — She spent much of her life in an indigenous village without electricity, using wattles to cross rivers and make it to her school in the poorest region of Panama. The hardships she endured as a child still make her cry. From those humble beginnings, Rosa Iveth Montezuma has become the first […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Ebay filed a lawsuit against Amazon Wednesday, saying the online retail giant used eBay’s messaging system to recruit its sellers. In the lawsuit, eBay says Amazon representatives messaged sellers to get them to sell on Amazon’s site, which eBay says violates its user agreement. Amazon representatives spelled out their email addresses […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has again decided not to brand China a currency manipulator. But the U.S. is targeting China and five others for special monitoring for what the administration says are practices that are worsening America’s trade deficit. In a report issued Wednesday, the administration says no country meets the criteria to […]

BOSTON (AP) — A series of emails among top Harvard University officials illustrates the role wealth can play in the admissions process. The emails were revealed Wednesday in a federal trial alleging that Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asian-American applicants. In one email from 2014, a men’s tennis coach told the admissions dean that it “would […]

At a sometimes emotional meeting, commission members said they had wanted to support the agreement but that it contained too many rollbacks on hard-fought reforms.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A white Connecticut police officer caught on video warning a group of mostly black and Hispanic young people not to fight or run away because he was “trigger happy” has been fired. Hartford Police Chief David Rosado announced the termination of Officer Stephen Barone on Wednesday. “This officer’s conduct does not […]

Though it addresses big themes — children’s exposure to violence; opioid addiction; single parenting — “Sadie” is at its heart an intimate story, about a mother and daughter and a man who seems to come between them. But its honesty and power makes it feel large. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.

Tanya Saracho's 2017 play, now at Seattle Public Theater, is a two-character excavation of what it means for Lucia, a Mexican-born TV writer, to be "down" — in the eyes of token-minority-hiring TV bosses, and in the eyes of the janitor who takes out the garbage.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Wednesday marks the first day that ballots are being mailed to Oregonians for the Nov. 6 election. Oregon’s vote-by-mail system means that ballots must be mailed well ahead of election day. Ballots will be distributed by the U.S. Postal Service to registered voters until Oct. 22. Voters can return their ballots […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Conservationists told a judge that an imminent federal plan to shrink the territory of the only wild red wolves would hasten the animal’s extinction. Lawyers for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, countered that new rules for the red wolf program, set to be finalized next month, mean that the […]

Our roundup of great new happy hours around Seattle includes all your bar favorites: pizzas, burgers, cheap beer and whiskey.