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• The world’s hottest summer in recorded history: Not to worry, says Donald Trump

  17-09-2015 23:49
  
  The summer of 2015 is the warmest in 135 years of record keeping and the year appears almost certain to set heat records, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It is extremely likely that 2015 will eclipse 2014 as the warmest year on record,” said NOAA. “The historical data suggest it would take a remarkable and abrupt reversal in the NOAAGlobalTemperature time series over the remainder of the year to upend 2015 and drive d
  
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• Rent Control Resolution Gets Split Vote in City Council Committee, Looks Unlikely to Pass Full Council

  17-09-2015 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Council Member Nick Licata wants the state to lift the ban on rent control. His colleagues aren't convinced. City of Seattle
  Rent control supporters packed Seattle City Council chambers today but left with a disappointing result: A 3-3 split vote on a resolution asking the state legislature to lift the ban on rent control. The resolution now goes to the full city council, where it looks likely to fail.At today's council meeting, Council Member Mike O'Brien joined the resolution's sponsors, Ksham
  
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• Severed Heads Reanimate Their Subversive Electronic Music for Rare Seattle Show

  17-09-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a not-so-subliminal suggestion to get Severed Heads to play tracks off this recording at the Highline.
  Iconoclastic Australian electronic unit Severed Heads rarely make it to the US, so when they do, it’s a huge deal.Led over most of their tenure (1979-2008, with a revival in 2013) by Tom Ellard, Severed Heads have undergone many personnel changes, but through it all, they’ve purveyed a strain of sample-heavy electronic subversion that encompasses elements of horror and whims
  
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• 10 Frames: Hercules & Love Affair and Chianti Darling at Neumos

  17-09-2015 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Hercules & Love Affair relax in the green room before their set. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Despite the creeping chill of fall settling over Seattle last night, the music at Neumos was still hot, hot hot, when Hercules & Love Affair brought their fierce and distinct talents to the stage for a sublime midweek show. Chianti Darling warmed the crowd—and feature a virtual who's who of music in Portland, including Hannah Blilie of Gossip fame, Wild Flag's Rebecca Cole, Chanticleer Trü of
  
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• 10 Frames: Hercules & Love Affair and Chanti Darling at Neumos

  17-09-2015 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Hercules & Love Affair relax in the green room before their set. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Despite the creeping chill of fall settling over Seattle last night, the music at Neumos was still hot, hot hot, when Hercules & Love Affair brought their fierce and distinct talents to the stage for a sublime midweek show. Chianti Darling warmed the crowd—and feature a virtual who's who of music in Portland, including Hannah Blilie of Gossip fame, Wild Flag's Rebecca Cole, Chanticleer Trü of
  
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• The Best Things To Do Today

  17-09-2015 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The Decline of Western Civilization Part I will screen at the Women in Cinema festival, which starts tonight.
  Thursday is here, aka the unofficial start of the weekend, and our critics have hand-picked these events for you in honor of the occasion.READINGS: Love at First Swipe: The Art of Online Dating
  Ever feel like you're a disembodied head pulsing into the nothing of the Tinder universe? Or feel as if you're both customer and merchandise of the human flea market that is OKCupid? Writers Corin
  
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• An Old Driver Hit a Pedestrian at a Belltown Crosswalk

  17-09-2015 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  A beauty of a killer. Charles Mudede
  Yesterday, a pedestrian on a crosswalk in Belltown was hit by a car. The crosswalk is on First Avenue and Broad Street. The pedestrian was "transported to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries," SPD says. The driver who hit the pedestrian is 85 years old. According to the blogging officer, Lauren Lovanhill, the senior driver "was evaluated and showed no signs of impairment." Apparently, old age is not considered an impairment for operating
  
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• Ann Coulter’s foul-mouthed Twitter rant about ‘Jews’ and ‘Israel’

  17-09-2015 22:17
  
  Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is used to raising liberal ire, but on Wednesday night Fox News pundit Megyn Kelly was inviting Coulter to apologize for Twitter rants against “Jews” and “Israel” during the Republican presidential debate. Coulter refused, claiming her attacks targeted pandering candidates, and that she had nothing against what one Tweet referred to as “F…ing Jews.” How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United S
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Spawn of Satan

  17-09-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on February 12, 2014.
  I am an 18-year-old pansexual girl. I'm currently in a relationship with a guy. He is a bit younger, though mature for his age. We get along great, our friends like us together, yada yada. He wants to do the waiting until marriage thing for religious reasons, which I mostly agree with. We met in youth group, after all. Here is the kink. I lost the big V a year ago. He knows, isn't happy about it, but is willing to date me anyway.
  What hasn't come up is the
  
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• Police: Man charged in Kent killing says victim disrespected mother

  17-09-2015 21:29
  
  A 37-year-old Kent man has been charged with second-degree murder, accused of chasing down and fatally shooting a 42-year-old man as he tried to drive away.
  
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• Boy who killed at age 8 ready to return to school at 15

  17-09-2015 21:28
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona boy charged with killing his father and another man when he was 8 years old has been cleared by a judge to transition into a foster home and enroll in public school, prompting outrage from the prosecutor and the family of a victim. The now 15-year-old boy was a […]
  
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• Hull of first sub in history to sink enemy warship revealed

  17-09-2015 21:27
  
  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years. After a year of painstaking work, scientists using small chisels and hand tools have removed encrusted sand, sediment and rust from the outside of the […]
  
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• Study: Type 2 diabetes pill Jardiance cuts risk of death

  17-09-2015 21:25
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Jardiance sharply reduced chances of dying in diabetic patients at high risk of heart complications, a study shows, making the Type 2 diabetes medication the first shown to lengthen diabetics’ lives. The study found Jardiance reduced deaths from heart complications by 38 percent, deaths from any cause by 32 percent and […]
  
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• Things to know about the flu shot: Lots of options this year

  17-09-2015 21:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Give flu vaccine another chance: This year’s version got a recipe change that should make it more effective after last winter’s misery from a nasty surprise strain of virus. Don’t let a fear of needles stop you. Beyond the traditional shots, the squeamish for the first time could try a needle-free injection, […]
  
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• Window washer falls to his death in Tacoma

  17-09-2015 21:04
  A window washer was killed in a fall from a building in Tacoma.
  
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• Savage Love: Minds Blown

  17-09-2015 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  My son, who is almost 30 years old, was married four years ago. He just shared with us that for the last three years, he and his wife have been practicing polyamory. They are committed to their relationship but have each had relationships with both men and women. We are trying to get our heads around this, as we come from a more traditional background (we've been married 40 years in a loving and respectful relationship), and we find ourselves feeling very sad. We are accepting and no
  
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• Expedia closes deal to buy Orbitz

  17-09-2015 21:04
  
  Expedia agreed to buy Orbitz in February in an all-cash deal for $12 per share.
  
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• Captive snake with no male companion gives birth — again

  17-09-2015 20:58
  
  For the second time in two years, a captive female yellow-bellied water snake has given birth without any interaction with a member of the opposite sex.
  
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• Gio Ross, Seattle Opera’s ‘first lady,’ dies

  17-09-2015 20:46
  
  Angelamaria “Gio” Solimene Ross, who, with her husband, Glynn Ross, built Seattle Opera into a highly respected company, died on Sept. 12.
  
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• Serial groper with ‘boundary issues’ charged in attack on woman at Capitol Hill bus stop

  17-09-2015 20:38
  
  A Seattle man accused of shoving his hands under a woman's dress at a Capitol Hill bus stop has been charged with a sex crime.
  
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• Tsunami advisories ended for Hawaii, California after quake

  17-09-2015 20:21
  HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami advisories for Hawaii and California were dropped Thursday following a powerful earthquake off Chile, while minor effects were recorded along coasts as far north as Alaska. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center first issued a more serious tsunami watch for Hawaii shortly after Wednesday’s magnitude-8.3 earthquake. Officials later downgraded that to an […]
  
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• Chile quake leads to tsunami advisory for Hawaii, California

  17-09-2015 20:21
  
  HONOLULU — The powerful earthquake off Chile sparked a tsunami advisory for parts of coastal California and Hawaii, prompting officials in both states to urge caution around shorelines. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center first issued a more serious tsunami watch for Hawaii shortly after Wednesday’s magnitude-8.3 earthquake. Officials later downgraded that to an advisory, saying […]
  
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• 43-story South Lake Union tower project to include public walkways, view point

  17-09-2015 20:19
  
  South Lake Union continues to boom as yet another residential tower design rolls out, this one for a 43-story, 430-unit apartment building that would include a public hill climb and view plaza.
  
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• Death toll from flash flooding in Utah rises to 19

  17-09-2015 20:12
  
  The death toll from flash floods that ripped through Utah reached 19 after searchers found the final body from a group of hikers that were trapped in a canyon in Zion National Park. At least 12 others, including nine children, died Monday in a nearby town on the Utah-Arizona border.
  
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• John Luther Adams's Experimental Composition Inuksuit Isn't Finished Without You

  17-09-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  John Luther Adams had survival in the back of his mind when he devised Inuksuit.
  I want you to change any plans you have for this weekend and make room for a Saturday afternoon jaunt to Seward Park. If you do, I'm pretty sure you'll have your mind bent for you in a permanent fashion by encountering John Luther Adams's hour-long soundscape for drums and obbligato audience Inuksuit. It's hard to convey the effect of Inuksuit in performance, particularly if you haven't heard it live…
  
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• Democrats offer 3 choices to replace Rep. Ross Hunter

  17-09-2015 19:52
  An attorney, a Redmond City Council member or a real-estate broker: one of these will likely replace chief Democratic budget writer Ross Hunter.
  
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• Republicans are Convinced They're Modern Martin Luther Kings

  17-09-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Everybody ready for some grade-A bullshit? Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Did you watch the GOP Prom last night? A clutch of Republican fulminators clustered in an airplane hangar at the Ronald Reagan Library to engage in some branding exercises before cameras. Watching Santorum, Huckabee, Jindal, and all the rest gurgle about Iran and immigration and Obama made it clear why so many people support Donald Trump: all of the candidates are insufferable, so why not throw your support behind a guy w
  
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• The Man Tripped by Hungarian Camerawoman Is a Syrian Soccer Coach

  17-09-2015 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  What you will never find in this funnaminal world is a bad deed that's unalloyed with some good, and vice versa. For example, the most famous and infamous trip of the 21st century, which happened near Röszke (a Hungarian village near the Serbian border), has its bad side and good side.
  The bad side: Last week, a group of refugees at a Hungarian registration camp decided to break and run into the wide open country. A blond woman filming this desperation stuck out her leg and tripped a middl
  
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• Judges issue contempt orders, $700,000 in fines in boarding cases of mentally ill

  17-09-2015 19:34
  
  Judges across the state have continued to issue contempt orders and fines against an agency and two psychiatric hospitals for failing to provide timely competency services, despite a federal judge’s ruling.
  
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• Pedestrian severely injured in Central District accident

  17-09-2015 19:22
  A 55-year-old man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in the Central District.
  
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• GOP debate reignites autism, vaccine issue, to doctors’ dismay

  17-09-2015 18:58
  
  Doctors watching the GOP presidential debate are despairing that Donald Trump vigorously asserted a connection between vaccines and autism.
  
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• Autism, vaccine issue reignited in debate, to doctors’ dismay

  17-09-2015 18:58
  
  Doctors watching the GOP presidential debate are despairing that Donald Trump vigorously asserted a connection between vaccines and autism.
  
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• Report: Orbital faces risks in resuming space station runs

  17-09-2015 18:40
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new government report says one of NASA’s two commercial suppliers faces an uphill struggle in resuming deliveries to the International Space Station. The space agency’s inspector general said Thursday that Orbital Sciences Corp. faces significant risks in its effort to recover from last October’s launch explosion. Orbital’s Antares rocket […]
  
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• Spanaway woman fined $2,400 for letting dog starve to death

  17-09-2015 18:35
  
  A Spanaway woman who allowed her great Dane to starve to death was ordered to pay a $2,400 fine.
  
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• 3 plead guilty in murder-for-hire plot

  17-09-2015 18:34
  
  Three men have pleaded guilty in federal court to the murder-for-hire slaying on a Spokane businessman that arose from business dealings in the North Dakota oil patch.
  
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• Jimmy Carter disses chair, stands behind podium at town hall

  17-09-2015 18:20
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The white cushioned chair assigned to Jimmy Carter at Emory University sat empty Wednesday night. The former president preferred to stand, though he opened his 34th town hall with students at the Atlanta university with a discussion of the treatment he’s receiving for cancer that had spread to his brain. Carter is […]
  
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• French startup claims development of in-vitro human sperm

  17-09-2015 18:18
  
  LYON, France (AP) — A French startup working with a top government lab said it has developed in-vitro human sperm, claiming a breakthrough in infertility treatment sought for more than a decade. Researchers with Kallistem had announced the discovery previously, but they and French government lab CNRS described how it works for the first time […]
  
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• School year begins for Seattle students: ‘Better than sitting bored at home’

  17-09-2015 18:08
  
  More than 53,000 students returned to Seattle schools after a six-day strike.
  
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• Earth’s record streak of record heat keeps on sizzling

  17-09-2015 17:58
  
  WASHINGTON — Earth’s record-breaking heat is sounding an awful lot like a broken record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that August, this past summer and the first eight months of 2015 all smashed global records for heat. That’s the fifth straight record hot season in a row and the fourth consecutive record […]
  
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• Get your flu vaccine, health officials urge ­— it will be more effective this time

  17-09-2015 17:35
  
  Last year’s flu vaccine was mostly a bust, providing little benefit to those who got the shots. But health officials are urging people to roll up their sleeves, saying they expect this year’s dose to be more effective.
  
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• The Morning News: Council Takes Up Rent Control as Data Shows Seattle's Wealthiest Are Renting More Than Before

  17-09-2015 17:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Council Members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata have introduced a resolution asking the state to lift its ban on rent control. This morning, their idea will be discussed at city hall. Kelly O
  The City Council Will Take Up Rent Control This Morning: "More than three months after Seattle Council Members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata introduced a resolution asking the state to lift its ban on rent control, the resolution is finally getting its first discussion at the city council," writes Hei
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze in Federal Way

  17-09-2015 16:42
  
  Firefighters with South King Fire & Rescue are battling a large fire at a commercial building in Federal Way.
  
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• Olympia woman’s body found on Oregon beach

  17-09-2015 16:04
  
  The body of a woman who was aboard a 20-foot Boston Whaler that capsized in the area of the North Jetty of Grays Harbor has been found in Warrenton.
  
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• Readers react: 25 solutions to Seattle’s parking problem

  17-09-2015 16:00
  
  Seattle Times readers offer plenty of answers to the city’s parking squeeze.
  
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• Chat about parking with Scott Kubly, director of Seattle Department of Transportation

  17-09-2015 16:00
  
  Join in at noon, Monday, Sept. 21.
  
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• Bumper-to-bumper frustration: Seattle’s lack of parking forces drivers to make tough choices

  17-09-2015 16:00
  
  The city certainly doesn’t want us to drive solo to work. From its website: “In general, the city’s priorities . . . do not support the use of on-street parking for long-term commuter parking.”
  
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• Seattle Aquarium trains otter to use inhaler for asthma

  17-09-2015 15:55
  
  The Seattle Aquarium believes it has diagnosed the first case of a sea otter with asthma and is training the animal to use an inhaler.
  
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• Man accused of stabbing police dog faces added charges

  17-09-2015 15:28
  
  A man accused of fatally stabbing a police dog is facing added criminal charges that prosecutors say are warranted given the severity of the case.
  
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• Traffic backed up on northbound I-5 in Federal Way

  17-09-2015 15:15
  
  Overnight construction on Interstate 5 in Federal Way finished late and caused a major backup in the northbound lanes.
  
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• Man arrested in roommate’s killing in Spokane County

  17-09-2015 15:04
  
  The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says deputies have arrested a 57-year-old man in the death of his roommate.
  
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