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• 50 Cent Said Trump Offered Him Half a Million for Campaign Appearance

  28-09-2017 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  “They wanted to pay me $500,000 as part of the campaign just to make an appearance," said 50.by Anna Kaplan50 Cent: "Nah, that's not good money." Pascal Le Segretain / Getty
  Rapper 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson) revealed in an interview with Hot 97 Tuesday that was he was offered $500,000 by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential team to make an appearance.“Before he got elected, they were having issues with the African American vote,” said Jackson. “They wanted to pay me $500,0
  
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• Watch This Shirtless Dude Cruise Down Everett's Biggest Hill in a Shopping Cart in the Middle of Traffic as if It Were Nothing

  28-09-2017 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Because he can.by Amber CortesThere he goes... ASHLEY JAMES VIA FACEBOOK
  It's obviously not his first time doing this, judging from his power-steering moves and perfect, graceful dismount.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Good News On HIV Front: Undetectable = Uninfectious

  28-09-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageThe Centers for Disease Control had this to say released an important "Dear Colleague" letter today:
  Scientific advances have shown that antiretroviral therapy (ART) preserves the health of people living with HIV. We also have strong evidence of the prevention effectiveness of ART. When ART results in viral suppression, defined as less than 200 copies/ml or undetectable levels, it prevents sexual HIV transmission. Across three different studies, including thousands of couples and ma
  
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• Oregon’s public pension deficit reaches $25.3 billion

  28-09-2017 22:44
  PORTLAND — A new valuation by the actuary for Oregon’s public pension says the system’s deficit has ballooned to $25.3 billion, meaning higher costs will be coming. According to the valuation by Milliman Inc., the growing deficit will cost schools and local and state government an additional $1.4 billion. The Oregonian/Oregon Live reports the increase […]
  
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• Yes, There’s a Lot of Cocaine, but the Real Drug in American Made Is Tom Cruise

  28-09-2017 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann
  American Made is a movie about Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who smuggled weapons for the Contras and cocaine for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s. Well, ostensibly it’s about Barry Seal. American Made, like all movies starring Tom Cruise, is actually about Tom Cruise.
  I don’t think there’s a single scene in the movie that doesn’t feature Cruise flashing his famous billboard grin; looking boyish as ever, he scurries and sweats across each frame li
  
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• Trump Administration Admits #TakeAKnee Controversy is "Black and White"

  28-09-2017 22:39 via thestranger.com
  by Steven HsiehWell, that settles it.
  .@AprilDRyan tries to ask follow-up re #TakeAKnee, @SarahHuckabee says "I don't think there's much to clarify, it's pretty black and white" pic.twitter.com/lP4g8JX2jm— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) September 28, 2017
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• I Want Battle of the Sexes on Instant Replay Inside My Eyelids

  28-09-2017 22:21 via thestranger.com
  God this movie is satisfying.by Elinor JonesIt might be hard for me to express how satisfying it is to watch a hardworking woman beat an entitled sexist prick on an international stage.
  Battle of the Sexes is about the real-life tennis match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell). It was the most-watched sporting event of its time, and revisiting it now is like two tall glasses of red wine for our abused and blackened souls.As the washed-up Riggs, Carrell is a brag
  
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• Connelly: Durkan has big lead in poll... of landline-only voters

  28-09-2017 22:14
  Jenny Durkan has a two-to-one lead over Cary Moon in new poll of the race for Seattle Mayor.  The poll, sponsored by the Washington State Wire, was limited to land lines and did not include cell phones.
  
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• Telescope on land sacred to Native Hawaiians moves forward

  28-09-2017 22:10
  HONOLULU (AP) — A long-running effort to build one of the world’s largest telescopes on a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians is moving forward after a key approval Thursday, reopening divisions over a project that promises revolutionary views into the heavens but has drawn impassioned protests over the impact to a spiritual place. Hawaii’s land […]
  
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• Hawaii land board grants permit to build divisive telescope

  28-09-2017 22:10
  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s land board on Thursday granted a construction permit for a giant telescope on a mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred, a project that has divided the state. The $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope has pitted people who say the instrument will provide educational and economic opportunities against those who say it […]
  
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• Hawaii land board approves construction permit for giant telescope on mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred

  28-09-2017 22:07
  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii land board approves construction permit for giant telescope on mountain that Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
  
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• 2 jetliners endangered by laser strikes on approach to Sea-Tac

  28-09-2017 22:06
  Investigators say someone shined a laser at two commercial aircraft as they were approaching the runway for a landing, putting everyone aboard the two flights in danger.
  
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• New Poll Shows Jenny Durkan Way in the Lead, But Take It With a Grain Of Salt

  28-09-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  There are reasons to be cautious.by Chetanya Robinson Nate Gowdy
  Jenny Durkan is leading Cary Moon 51 percent to 26 percent among likely voters, according to a new poll from Washington State Wire. However, there are reasons to doubt the results; the poll was only conducted on people who responded to landline calls. You can see how this method would leave out a lot of people.If you believe the results, though, they're bad news for Moon. People who didn't vote for either Durkan or Moon in the prim
  
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• At a Beacon Hill Warehouse Slated for Demolition, Graffiti Art Reigns Supreme

  28-09-2017 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Your last chance to see Dozer’s Warehouse is on Saturday.by Amber CortesThe closing show for Dozer's Warehouse is this Saturday. Photo includes work by CREWL and Izzy.AC
  Walking through Beacon Hill these days, you’ll see a lot of buildings that look like they’re not long for this world - soon to fall under the hands of developers and the never-ending, tsunami wave of gentrification.The building on the corner of Beacon Avenue South and 15th is no different, the smattering of ret
  
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• Seattle police investigate stabbing in Greenwood neighborhood

  28-09-2017 21:28
  The condition of the victim wasnot immediately known.
  
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• Man dies 2 days after fight in Burien; suspect arrested

  28-09-2017 21:17
  The victim, a 57-year-old Burien man, died Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center.
  
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• Out-of-towners outnumber locals for home searches in central Seattle

  28-09-2017 21:09
  People living outside the Puget Sound region outnumber locals among those shopping for homes in every ZIP code between the Ship Canal and the stadiums, while locals are searching in Snohomish County.
  
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• Portland area’s TriMet weighs bond measure for new light-rail line

  28-09-2017 20:54
  Officials with the Portland-based regional mass-transit agency caution the proposal is in the exploratory stage, but they are aware that motorists are tired of ever-worsening bottlenecks in the region, confirmed recently by the Oregon Department of Transportation.
  
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• Connelly: The Vietnam underground to Canada -- a personal memory

  28-09-2017 20:53
  A long-ago trip along the "underground railroad" on wheels that carried Vietnam-era military deserters from Fort Lewis to refuge in British Columbia.
  
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• Spielberg surprises crowd at John Williams' Symphony Concert

  28-09-2017 20:42
  John Williams had an extra surprise up his sleeve for the audience (and, apparently, some of the musicians) at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday: Steven Spielberg.
  
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• Authorities: Plane crashed after entering Idaho box canyon

  28-09-2017 20:41
  CASCADE, Idaho — Federal authorities in a preliminary report say a plane crash in west-central Idaho that killed an Idaho man and injured the Georgia pilot occurred when the pilot flew into a box canyon and crashed trying to get out. The National Transportation Safety Board in a report earlier this month says the small […]
  
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• I, Anonymous: Your Drone Is Now My Ashtray

  28-09-2017 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous
  I kept your drone because you're a dick.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Seattle, state sue 'Big Pharma' over pain pill marketing

  28-09-2017 20:27
  The City of Seattle and state of Washington are going after pharmaceutical companies they argue helped create the country's opioid epidemic. In a Thursday press conference at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced separate lawsuits against major drug companies. "Unlike earthquakes and hurricanes, this disaster is a human-made crisis," Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said.
  
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• City of Seattle, Washington state sue 'Big Pharma' over opioids

  28-09-2017 20:27
  The City of Seattle and state of Washington are going after pharmaceutical companies they argue helped create the country's opioid epidemic. In a Thursday press conference at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced separate lawsuits against major drug companies. "Unlike earthquakes and hurricanes, this disaster is a human-made crisis," Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said.
  
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• Report Gives Starbucks a "D+" on Reducing Antibiotics in its Meat Supply

  28-09-2017 20:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Behind KFC, McDonald's and Taco Bell.by Sydney BrownstoneThe company doesn't have a timeline to reduce the amount of medically important antibiotics in its beef or pork supply chains. Joe Raedle/Getty
  As I noted in this week's Back to School article on urinary tract infections (fun!), researchers are linking antibiotics used in raising farm animals to strains of drug-resistant bacteria found in humans. For this reason, activist and food safety groups have long called on fast food chains—so
  
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• Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris

  28-09-2017 20:10
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researchers reported Thursday. It is the largest and longest marine migration ever documented, outside experts and the researchers said. The scientists and colleagues […]
  
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• Feeling old? DNA supports an early evolution of our species

  28-09-2017 20:04
  NEW YORK (AP) — A study of DNA from African fossils is providing new evidence that our species is a lot older than scientists had shown. It concludes Homo sapiens had appeared by at least 260,000 to 350,000 years ago. That fits with a fossil finding in Morocco that was reported in June, which suggested […]
  
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• Connelly: Majority in national poll finds Trump 'not fit to serve as president'

  28-09-2017 20:00
  By a 56-42 percent margin, Americans in the latest national Quinnipiac University poll say that Donald Trump is "not fit to be president."  Just 37 percent say Trump is honest, just 36 percent say he shares their values.
  
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• The Origami Butterflies Around Seattle Parks Appear to Be an Anti-Choice Campaign

  28-09-2017 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh.by Ana Sofia KnaufPretty on the outside, but... Renée KrulichSeattleites have been finding rainbow-striped origami butterflies at parks in downtown, Capitol Hill, South Lake Union, and the University District since yesterday. When unfolded, each sheet displays a message saying, "You are not safe," alongside today's date and a link to ALLGODSMUSTDIE.com. They also include illustrations of Seattle icons: Kurt Cobain, Russell Wilson and the Starbucks siren.The internet sleuths over on the
  
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• Uh Steven Spielberg Made a Surprise Visit To the Seattle Symphony for the John Williams Concert Last Night

  28-09-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithAmerican auteurs.Brandon Patoc
  It was no surprise that the Seattle Symphony's John Williams Conducts Williams concert sold out approximately two hours after tickets went on sale, but it was quite the surprise when Williams, the greatest American cinematic composer of our time, called Steven Spielberg to the stage following intermission.After a moment of collective disbelief, everyone in the packed house rose to their feet and flipped out as the author of their childhoods walked acro
  
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• Homeless in King County: A Day in the LIfe

  28-09-2017 19:28 via thestranger.com
  
  There is a lot of mystery around the lives of homeless people. Here's what one man's life looks like.by Allen BensonThe author no longer sleeps on the streets thanks to an Eastside shelter program. John Moore/Getty Images
  As I learned from the comments on my first post for The Stranger, there are a lot of misconceptions about homeless people: who we are, how we got here, and what we may or may not be doing to change our circumstances. It seems there is a lot of mystery around the lives of homele
  
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• Washington state AG Bob Ferguson, Seattle sue OxyContin maker over opioid deaths

  28-09-2017 19:07
  The attorney general and city of Seattle allege that Purdue Pharma, and other opioid manufacturers, downplayed the risk of addiction.
  
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• Tacoma Councilmember Proposes a Fast-Ferry Service to Seattle

  28-09-2017 18:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeCity of ferry destiny? gregobagel/gettyimages.com
  The wonder is that such a service is not already in existence. It makes perfect sense to have a fast "foot ferry" service between the cities. Forty percent of Tacomans work in Seattle, and as City Councilmember Ryan Mello put it on QFox, “they're stuck in traffic.”Link light rail service between the cities is in the remote future (I would bet on the volcano exploding before light rail happens). And as more and more Se
  
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• State AG, City Attorney to Announce Lawsuit Against Opioid Manufacturer

  28-09-2017 18:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington state had 692 opiate-related deaths in 2015.by Heidi GrooverWashington will join dozens of other cities, counties, and states suing opioid manufacturers and distributors. Darren McCollester/Getty
  At 10 am at Harborview Medical Center, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes will announce "a major lawsuit against one of the largest opioid manufacturers," according to Ferguson's office.At least 25 other states, cities, and counties—incl
  
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• State AG, City Attorney Announce Lawsuits Against OxyContin Manufacturer

  28-09-2017 18:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington state had 692 opiate-related deaths in 2015.by Heidi GrooverWashington will join dozens of other cities, counties, and states suing opioid manufacturers and distributors. Darren McCollester/Getty
  At 10 am at Harborview Medical Center, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes will announce "a major lawsuit against one of the largest opioid manufacturers," according to Ferguson's office.At least 25 other states, cities, and counties—incl
  
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• Seattle's cryptic origami mystery has been solved

  28-09-2017 18:21
  The day has come and the site has been updated. Turns out it's Christian anti-abortion viral marketing.
  
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• The Morning News: Don't Get Smacked with a Hefty Fine for Passing a Seattle School Bus, but Do Spend Your Day Playing Outside

  28-09-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufSavor this while you can. Autumn is coming. ASK
  Go Outside! Today's supposed to be the last 80-degree day of the year. The autumn weather will be here tomorrow.
  Some Suggestions for How You Should Spend Your Day: Explore these secret beaches and parks, then drink/dine on these lovely outdoor patios! Frolic in the sunshine before you have to dust off your happy lamp.Trump Finally Waives Jones Act to Help Puerto Rico: It only took a week for the president to decide to aid America
  
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• Here’s looking at you: Final Rosetta photo shows rocky comet

  28-09-2017 17:13
  BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says scientists have pieced together a final image of a comet’s surface taken by its Rosetta probe just before its mission ended in a slow-motion crash a year ago. ESA guided Rosetta to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30 last year, ending its 12-year mission. Rosetta […]
  
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• U.S. health officials brace for potentially bad flu season

  28-09-2017 17:07
  U.S. health officials are bracing for a potentially miserable fall and winter. Why? The Southern Hemisphere has been hit hard with a nasty flu strain, and small clusters of that H3N2 flu already are popping up in the United States.
  
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• Get your flu shots, US urges amid concerns about bad season

  28-09-2017 17:07
  U.S. health officials are bracing for a potentially miserable fall and winter. Why? The Southern Hemisphere has been hit hard with a nasty flu strain, and small clusters of that H3N2 flu already are popping up in the United States.
  
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• Today is a great day to play hooky: It’ll likely be last really warm day until spring

  28-09-2017 16:11
  We are experiencing a rare back-to-back showing of 80-degree days for this time of year. So, why not? Ditch some of your responsibilities and get outside today.
  
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• FAA investigating lasers flashed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport pilots

  28-09-2017 15:48
  Two pilots reported the green lasers Wednesday night during arrival flights at the airport.
  
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• Should an office tower rise over the city’s South Lake Union streetcar garage?

  28-09-2017 15:00
  As it embarks on a major expansion of its streetcar system, Seattle wants to sell its South Lake Union streetcar-maintenance site to a developer that would construct an office building adjacent to and over the garage.
  
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• Mayoral candidates zero in on policy proposals

  28-09-2017 15:00
  The campaign promises are multiplying as Seattle mayoral candidates Cary Moon and Jenny Durkan propose free transit for kids and rent vouchers for thousands of households.
  
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• Aid for renters, free transit for kids: Proposals fly in Seattle’s race for mayor

  28-09-2017 15:00
  The ideas are multiplying as Seattle mayoral candidates Cary Moon and Jenny Durkan propose free transit for public-school students and rent vouchers for thousands of households.
  
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• Ahead of number retirement, ex-Seahawk Kenny Easley talks injuries, hits Trump on protests

  28-09-2017 15:00
  Kenny Easley shared his perspective on a range of topics in a phone call this week as he prepared to visit Seattle for two honors this weekend. He talked about protests, the physical damage football does, Donald Trump and faith.
  
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