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• White House: Obama assets between $1.9M and $6.9M

  15-05-2015 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, held assets last year that were worth roughly $1.9 million to $6.9 million, according to their required financial disclosure reports. The range of the Obamas’ net worth is little changed from 2013, when the president reported assets between $1.8 million and $7 million. The disclosure […]
  
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• Obamas’ joint assets reportedly between $1.9M and $6.9M

  15-05-2015 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has released financial disclosure reports showing that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, held assets last year that were worth about $1.9 million to about $6.9 million. The range is little changed from the reports Obama filed in 2013. The financial disclosure reports are required by law. Public […]
  
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• Asian groups file complaint over Harvard admission practices

  15-05-2015 23:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An alliance of Asian American groups on Friday filed a federal complaint against Harvard University, saying that school and other Ivy League institutions are using racial quotas to admit students other than high-scoring Asians. More than 60 Chinese, Indian, Korean and Pakistani groups came together for the complaint, which was filed with […]
  
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• We Asked 12 People at SIFF's Opening Gala: Which Film Are You Most Excited to See?

  15-05-2015 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  "PERSONAL GOLD" Film Director Tamara Christopherson with Olympic athlete Jennie Reed: "We want to see as many other films directed by women as we possibly can."Kelly O
  Jennie's *real actual* 2012 Olympic Medal she earned in Women's Track Cycling. She even let me touch it! Kelly OBeth, SIFF Director of Programming, ""Son of the Sheik" with the Alloy Orchestra. It's a one-night-only experience you can't have watching at home."Kelly O
  Vivian, "I haven't really looked at the schedule yet, but I'm ex
  
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• License suspended for Bellingham nurse after patient death

  15-05-2015 23:34
  
  The state Department of Health has suspended the license of a nurse after a resident died in her care at a Bellingham nursing home.
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Looks Into the Purpose of Kayaktivism, Port Votes, and More!

  15-05-2015 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth: Episode six of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. BrAt82/Shutterstock
  Former Mayor Mike McGinn is back on Blabbermouth this week. McGinn talks about dusting off his kayak in order to join this weekend's Festival of Resistance against the arrival of Shell's Arctic drilling fleet in Seattle.The former mayor also tangles with this Danny Westneat column, which questioned whether kayaktivism will accomplish anything at all. And McGinn also criticizes Mayor Ed Murray for not taking a p
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: I Like Big Dicks and I Cannot Lie.

  15-05-2015 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on May 18, 2011.
  Kinky female here, age 26. For as long as I've been sexually active, I've been ridiculously turned on by guys with huge cocks. I love the way they look and feel in my hands and when they're inside me. This isn't to say that I'd date a guy purely on cock enormity alone; I wouldn't. But I'm not sure what to do about my current situation: I'm dating someone now who shares my same values—he's flamingly liberal and actually enjoys RuPaul's Drag Race—but
  
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• John Kerry to promote trade deals in Seattle Tuesday

  15-05-2015 22:09
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Seattle Tuesday to deliver a speech on the economic benefits of international trade agreements, including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. Kerry will be in Beijing, China this weekend, and Seoul, South Korea on Monday before traveling to Seattle for Tuesday’s event, according to the State Department. Details of where Kerry […]
  
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• John Kerry to promote trade deals in Seattle on Tuesday

  15-05-2015 22:09
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Seattle on Tuesday to deliver a speech on the economic benefits of international trade agreements, including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. Kerry will be in Beijing, China, this weekend, and Seoul, South Korea, on Monday before traveling to Seattle for Tuesday’s event, according to the State Department. Details of where […]
  
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• Inslee declares statewide drought emergency

  15-05-2015 20:59
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a statewide drought emergency.
  
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• In Writing News: Werner Herzog Shares His Diary, Franz Wright Is Dead, and Artist Trust's Grant Deadline Is Monday

  15-05-2015 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  "Shall I make this out to Timothy, or to the bag of bone dust you shall become?" taniavolobueva / Shutterstock.com
  • Do you have a good Werner Herzog impression? Of course you do. You’re great. (If you don’t, watch this for three minutes, then get back here.) Ok, now use your impression to read this quote: “The teenagers on their mopeds are moving toward death in synchronized motion.”
  Classic. The phrase comes from the German filmmaker’s own diary. He kept it
  
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• Best hope for California drought: El Nino pattern next year

  15-05-2015 20:41
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — This week’s wet storm isn’t expected to provide much, if any, relief from California’s historic drought. But there is hope for a serious drenching next year in the form of El Nino, a tropical weather pattern over the Pacific Ocean that typically brings rain to the West Coast. Climatologists say the […]
  
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• Pepper spray used to quell Seattle courtroom melee

  15-05-2015 20:32
  
  A downtown Seattle courtroom was shrouded in a cloud of pepper spray Friday morning after a fight broke out during the a pre-trial hearing. Seattle defense attorney Teri Rogers Kemp said her client was sitting alone in the gallery, awaiting her appearance before a King County Superior Court  judge, around 10 a.m. when another woman […]
  
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• Round 2 of cold, windy storm sweeps into Southern California

  15-05-2015 20:27
  
  A second round of rain from a spring storm swept into Southern California on Friday, along with heavy winds, snow in the mountains and the possibility of hail and lightning.
  
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• Rare spring storm sweeps into Southern California, Arizona

  15-05-2015 20:27
  
  A second round of rain from a spring storm swept into Southern California on Friday, along with heavy winds, snow in the mountains and the possibility of hail and lightning.
  
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• Detective who led John Wayne Gacy investigation dies

  15-05-2015 20:09
  
  Joseph Kozenczak, the suburban Chicago police detective credited with leading the investigation that nabbed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, has died.Gacy, a contractor and amateur clown, was convicted of luring 33 young men and boys to his Chicago-area home and strangling them between 1972 and 1978. He was executed in 1994.
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee: All of Washington Is Now in Drought

  15-05-2015 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Drought conditions have "deepened dramatically" over the last few weeks, Inslee said.Washington Department of Ecology
  After weeks of piecemeal emergency drought declarations across the state, Governor Jay Inslee announced this morning that the entire state of Washington is facing drought."Rain has been normal," Inslee said. "What we've lacked has been snow. We're calling it a snowpack drought."This year's unprecedented low snowpack levels—16 percent of normal—has meant that Washingto
  
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• Spy Brought the House Down at SIFF's Opening Gala. It's Funnier than Bridesmaids.

  15-05-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Spy director Paul Feig on the red carpet last night. He said, "All the funniest people I know are women. Sorry, men." Kelly O
  If you were hemming and hawing about whether to go to SIFF opening night last night, and you decided not to, you messed up. Holy shit that movie was funny. The trailers don't do it justice. I laughed so hard I started crying out at the screen in agonies of pleasure. It's waaaaaaaaay funnier than The Heat was, and I have to say, though it didn't have Jon Hamm jackhammering
  
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• SIFF's Culinary Cinema Series Practically Dares Us To Make a Pun About Having “Good Taste” in Films (But We Won’t Bite)

  15-05-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Little Forest: Lots of vegetable harvesting and home cooking.SIFF
  SIFF, as you've probably heard by now, is upon us. Feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of choosing from 450 films? Consider narrowing your focus. If, like me, you spend the majority of your time thinking about, eating, and cooking food (extra points if, like me, you also happen to be a breastfeeding mother who is keeping another human alive with food your body is magically producing all day, everyday), you should check out SIFF's
  
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• Man arrested in attack on Olympia security officer

  15-05-2015 19:55
  
  Man arrested in attack on Olympia security officer
  
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• Guest Editorial: Historic Ruling Sends a Clear Message to Schools—Abstinence-Only Education Isn’t Sex Ed

  15-05-2015 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Schools continue to be subject to pressure by sex ed opponents who, despite data about the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education, are increasingly idiotic. Lissandra Melo/Shutterstock
  Earlier this week, a judge in Fresno, California ruled against an abstinence-only sex education program, saying that the school district violated state law by failing to provide adequate instruction on sexual health and HIV prevention.
  I find this refreshing.
  Typically, the headlines we see about sexual educ
  
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• King County deputy fired after reportedly passing out in boat, leaving gun on dock

  15-05-2015 19:15
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office has fired a deputy after he reportedly passed out drunk in a boat and left his gun behind on a dock, where it was found by teenagers.
  
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• King County deputy fired after passing out in boat, leaving gun on dock

  15-05-2015 19:15
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office has fired after a deputy after he reportedly passed out drunk in a boat and left his gun behind on the dock, where it was found by teenagers.
  
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• Deputy fired after reportedly passing out in boat, leaving gun on dock

  15-05-2015 19:15
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office has fired a deputy after he reportedly passed out drunk in a boat and left his gun behind on a dock, where it was found by teenagers.
  
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• Deputy fired after passing out in boat, leaving gun on dock

  15-05-2015 19:15
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office has fired a deputy after he reportedly passed out drunk in a boat and left his gun behind on a dock, where it was found by teenagers.
  
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• SIFF Notes: All the Films You Must, Should, and Might Want to See This Weekend

  15-05-2015 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The stars of Deathgasm pre-game for a big SIFF 2015 opening weekend.
  The 41st Annual Seattle International Film Festival is officially on like Rashomon. By all accounts, yesterday was a gala day (and as Groucho Marx reminds us, a gala day is enough for anyone). Now that the big party’s over, the real fun begins. Here are all the films the Strangerrecommends and/or demands that you see this weekend, along with a promising few we haven’t been able to see yet. Don’t forget that ou
  
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• Why Protesters Greeted Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig in Elliott Bay Yesterday

  15-05-2015 18:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Polar Pioneer, meet the Space Needle. Alex Garland
  Within 15 minutes of an Arctic drilling rig pulling into Seattle's port, Bill Bryant declared his run for governor.It was weird timing; the rig partly had Bryant to thank for ending up in this particular destination. Bryant, the most adamantly pro-Shell elected official on the port commission, had spent months shrugging off criticism of the commission's decision to bring the rig to Seattle with little public input. Opposition to the rig, he had
  
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• Police seek help in Kent child-luring incident

  15-05-2015 18:53
  
  Kent police are investigating an apparent child-luring incident in which an unidentified man tried to grab a 10-year-old girl who was walking home after school.
  
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• Plumber held down prowler until police arrived

  15-05-2015 18:36
  
  A plumber was in the middle of working on a home when he came face-to-face with a suspected criminal, who he took down and held in time for police to arrive.
  
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• Father: American killed in Afghanistan worked to help poor

  15-05-2015 18:21
  
  The American killed in the Taliban attack at an Afghanistan guest house was in Kabul to work on a project involving wheat production. Paula Kantor, 46, was a scientist and gender and development specialist.
  
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• American killed in Afghanistan worked to help poor, her father says

  15-05-2015 18:21
  
  The American killed in the Taliban attack at an Afghanistan guest house was in Kabul to work on a project involving wheat production. Paula Kantor, 46, was a scientist and gender and development specialist.
  
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• The Morning News: Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives in Seattle, McGinn Says Murray Should Have Opposed It Sooner

  15-05-2015 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Shell Oil's Arctic drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, seen this morning at its berth at the Port of Seattle. Alex Garland
  The Polar Pioneer Arrived in Seattle Yesterday, and The Stranger Was in the Water With It: Check out what @sydbrownstone and @heidigroover saw when they jumped in a kayak and went out on Elliott Bay with the kayaktivists and Duwamish tribal members saying "ShellNO." (And, of course, TV news people did the same but from a yacht.)
  Former Mayor Mike McGinn Says Mayor Ed Murray Sho
  
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• The Morning News: Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives in Seattle, UW Divests from Thermal Coal

  15-05-2015 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Shell Oil's Arctic drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, seen this morning at its berth at the Port of Seattle. Alex Garland
  The Polar Pioneer Arrived in Seattle Yesterday, and The Stranger Was in the Water with It: Check out what @sydbrownstone and @heidigroover saw when they jumped in a kayak and went out on Elliott Bay with the kayaktivists and Duwamish tribal members saying "ShellNO." (And, of course, TV news people did the same but from a yacht.)
  Former Mayor Mike McGinn Says Mayor Ed Murray Sho
  
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• Train track vandalism could derail Tacoma Rail service in Tumwater, Olympia

  15-05-2015 17:44
  
  Train track vandalism could derail Tacoma Rail service in Tumwater, Olympia
  
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• Seattle PD spends close to $300K to stop May Day riot

  15-05-2015 17:15
  
  The Seattle Police Department has spent nearly $300,000 in overtime to put a stop to the May Day riot.
  
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• May Day riot cost Seattle police about $300,000

  15-05-2015 17:15
  
  The Seattle Police Department has spent nearly $300,000 in overtime to put a stop to the May Day riot.
  
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• May Day protest cost Seattle police about $300,000

  15-05-2015 17:15
  
  The Seattle Police Department has spent nearly $300,000 in overtime to put a stop to the May Day protest.
  
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• Why Do We Hate Pigeons?

  15-05-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Pigeons have done many wonderful things and were once popular. Kurkul/Shutterstock
  A mini-documentary posted on the news site Vox wastes no time addressing the leading criticism of one of the most urban and synanthropic animals, the pigeon. People often complain that the animal shits too much (each bird produces an estimated 25 pounds a year) and that this shit, which accumulates and hardens along the exterior of buildings, or in the dusk of neglected attics, or on sections of a sidewalk that ar
  
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• Kent car lot burglar caught on camera

  15-05-2015 16:40
  
  Kent car lot burglar caught on camera
  
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• Ceremonial first fish of Copper River salmon season arrives

  15-05-2015 16:33
  
  The ceremonial first fish of the Copper River salmon season has arrived in Seattle on an airplane from Alaska.
  
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• Ladies and Gentlemen, B.B. King Has Left the Stage

  15-05-2015 16:15 via thestranger.com
  
  TDC Photography / Shutterstock.com TDC Photography / Shutterstock.com
  The blues guitar institution B.B. King died yesterday in Las Vegas at the age of 89. Born Riley B. King to a family of sharecroppers in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925, the great-grandson of slaves, he would go on to wealth and glory, becoming effectively synonymous with his chosen instrument and idiom—according to the NY Times obit, "B.B." stood for "Blues Boy." Over the course of a career that spanned more than 70 years
  
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• This Week on the Blabbermouth Podcast: Former Mayor Mike McGinn Criticizes Current Mayor Ed Murray Over Shell Deal

  15-05-2015 16:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth: Episode six of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. BrAt82/Shutterstock
  Former Mayor Mike McGinn is back on Blabbermouth this week. McGinn talks about dusting off his kayak in order to join this weekend's Festival of Resistance against the arrival of Shell's Arctic drilling fleet in Seattle.The former mayor also tangles with this Danny Westneat column, which questioned whether kayaktivism will accomplish anything at all. And McGinn also criticizes Mayor Ed Murray for not taking a p
  
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• ‘Silk Road’ to christen new Bellevue venue on May 15

  15-05-2015 15:01
  
  An evening of cross-cultural musical tradition is planned in the new space, tucked into an apartment building downtown; more concerts are planned after the venue’s grand opening in September.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Followed Off the Bus by a Suspicious Man

  15-05-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Collision as Coast Guard boat tries to rescue disabled boat

  15-05-2015 14:59
  
  A 47-foot Coast Guard boat sent to rescue a fishing boat off the coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula collided with the disabled boat while taking it in tow.
  
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• Welcome to Seattle, You Planet-Destroying Piece of Shit

  15-05-2015 14:59 via thestranger.com
  
  The Polar Pioneer pulled into view shortly before SIFF's opening night gala at Seattle Center, where Mayor Ed Murray referred to it as "that thing sitting out there in Elliott Bay." Photo by Aaron Brethorst
  In his comments to a packed McCaw Hall, the mayor mentioned the 14,000 film jobs created by the Washington State's film incentive since 2007 and added, "Yes, there's a way to create jobs without oil rigs." Photo by Aaron Brethorst
  In other news, the Polar Pioneer appears to be tweeting. Photo
  
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• Wrong-way crash closes northbound lanes on the viaduct

  15-05-2015 14:52
  
  A wrong-way crash on Highway 99 has closed the northbound lanes of the Alaskan Way Viaduct at Royal Brougham.
  
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• One lane open after wrong-way crash closes northbound lanes on viaduct

  15-05-2015 14:52
  
  A wrong-way crash on Highway 99 has closed the northbound lanes of the Alaskan Way Viaduct at Royal Brougham.
  
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• Lanes reopen after wrong-way crash closes northbound viaduct

  15-05-2015 14:52
  
  Motorcyclist at Harborview with life-threatening injuries after a wrong-way crash on Highway 99 on the Alaskan Way Viaduct at Royal Brougham Way.
  
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• All lanes open after wrong-way crash closes northbound viaduct

  15-05-2015 14:52
  
  Motorcyclist at Harborview with life-threatening injuries after a wrong-way crash on Highway 99 on the Alaskan Way Viaduct at Royal Brougham Way.
  
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