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• Facebook and Google Sued by Washington Attorney General for Failing to Disclose Political Ads

  04-06-2018 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  The lawsuits come as a result of reporting by The Stranger.by Eli Sanders"What’s happening now is not legal," said Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. "Not even close." Karen Ducey / Getty Images
  In a pair of lawsuits that cite The Stranger's reporting, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today charged two of America's largest tech companies, Facebook and Google, with violating longstanding state campaign finance laws that mandate transparency in political ads.
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• AP Explains: A closer look at Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire

  04-06-2018 23:27
  NEW YORK (AP) — Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire erupted over the weekend, spewing deadly clouds and rivers of ash and pulverized rock. It is one of 11 active volcanoes in the Central America country that is along the so-called Ring of Fire. Some questions and answers about the volcano: HOW BIG IS IT? At its […]
  
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• It's official: Howard Schultz is Stepping Down from Starbucks and (Maybe) Running for President

  04-06-2018 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Just what we need, another unqualified candidate.by Katie HerzogPresident Howard Schultz?Stephen Brashear/Getty
  The New Yorks Times reports that Howard Schultz, the founder and executive chairman of Seattle coffee giant Starbucks, will officially retire from his position this month. But it doesn't look the Schultz will immediately start fishing and/or taking art classes at the local community college after he collects his gold watch. Instead, he's running for President. Maybe. Probably. Most lik
  
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• The 58 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: June 4-10, 2018

  04-06-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's arts critics' picks for the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 32 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Glazer's PhotoFest to the NW New Works Festival, and from Negroni Week to the final week of the Seattle International Film Festival. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Thing
  
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• Shoreline man dies after falling off cliff west of Snoqualmie Pass

  04-06-2018 23:02
  The victim and another man had been hiking in the backcountry area of Pratt Lake on Sunday when one man fell off the edge of a cliff.
  
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• Stevens Pass, three other ski areas to be purchased by Vail Resorts

  04-06-2018 23:00
  Vail Resorts on Monday announced its plan to purchase Stevens Pass for $67 million. The company also is buying the parent company of Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont, Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado.
  
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• Stevens Pass Resort, three others to be purchased by Vail Resorts

  04-06-2018 23:00
  Vail Resorts on Monday announced its plan to purchase Stevens Pass for $67 million. The company also is buying the parent company of Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont, Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado.
  
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• In a first, scientists use immunotherapy to rid patient of advanced breast cancer

  04-06-2018 22:53
  “I have definitely hit the jackpot,” said Judy Perkins. But a lot of scientific progress must happen before this treatment can work for a huge population of cancer patients.
  
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• Should We Feel Bad for Melania Trump?

  04-06-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe look of true love. GETTY IMAGES
  It's been 25 days since we last saw Melania Trump. While her public disappearance isn't totally surprising (Melania seems about as happy to be in the White House as the rest of us are to have her there), it does make you wonder: Could she be sick or is she just sick of her husband?I was pondering Melania's disappearance yesterday on Twitter, and had this exchange:Point taken. Melania does apparently have some kind of kidney issue and I was sort
  
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• "Notorious Slumlord" Carl Haglund Gives Up on Defamation Claim Against Sawant

  04-06-2018 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  "Mr. Haglund is a brutal, intimidating landlord who observes no ethical boundaries."by Heidi GrooverSeattle City Council member stood alongside tenants of Carl Haglund in 2015 to announce a law barring rent increases at substandard buildings. City of Seattle
  Landlord Carl Haglund has dismissed his case against the City of Seattle and Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant after initially claiming city officials defamed him, hurt his business, and should pay him $25 million.
  Haglund earned wid
  
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• Trump's Racial Hatred of Obama Is Determining US Foreign Policy

  04-06-2018 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe death of a global empire... elgol/gettyimages.com
  I want to begin with this obvious fact: Obama's foreign policies were not revolutionary or an upset to the world order (first-rate powers, second-rate powers, third-rate, and so on), but deeply continuous with a set of geopolitical objectives and protocols that were established after the Second World War and initiated the American Age. In fact, Obama repaired much of the damage caused by his predecessor's globally unpopular w
  
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• Health insurers propose 19 percent average rate hike in Washington state

  04-06-2018 21:50
  The state insurance commissioner said 11 insurers have filed 74 health plans for 2019. He said there would be no counties where health insurance wouldn't be available, although 14 would have only one insurer selling through Washington's Exchange, Washington Healthplanfinder.
  
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• You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here Is a Contemporary Testament to the Survival of the Indigenous Experience

  04-06-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here features an all-indigenous cast.by Sophia StephensFeatured artist and performer fabian romero with one of their pieces. Photo Courtesy of Kim Saito.
  “This show very much so owes itself to Dear White People—not the TV show, though,” said Howie Echo-Hawk of the origins of You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here, the one-night-only multidisciplinary performance he's staging at Annex Theatre this
  
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• Face Your Privilege and See Indigenous Play, You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here

  04-06-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here features an all-indigenous cast.by Sophia StephensFeatured artist and performer fabian romero with one of their pieces. Photo Courtesy of Kim Saito.
  “This show very much so owes itself to Dear White People—not the TV show, though,” said Howie Echo-Hawk of the origins of You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here, the one-night-only multidisciplinary performance he's staging at Annex Theatre this
  
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• Tornado spawned by Pennsylvania storm called ‘brief, weak’

  04-06-2018 21:29
  FINLEYVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Weather authorities say the weekend’s storms generated a small tornado in western Pennsylvania — but it didn’t last long. The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh says a “brief, weak” tornado rated EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale occurred Sunday evening in the Washington County borough of Finleyville. Weather service personnel […]
  
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• The Empty Hands Is a Charming, Cheeky Martial Arts Drama

  04-06-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  Martial-arts drama The Empty Hands is told with heart and humor. It is about an entitled slacker who has a strained relationship with her karate coach dad. She blames him for her mom leaving, and she also has lingering resentment about being forced to learn karate as a child (she quit before getting her black belt). She is also mad about growing up in an apartment he made into a dojo, which, after his passing, she plans to convert into multiple living spaces and rake in the cash
  
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• Want to Win Beyoncé Tickets? Take Our Calendar Survey Before Today's Over!

  04-06-2018 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWant to go do things like this in Seattle for free? Take our survey.
  If you read The Stranger and you live in Seattle, you probably know about our Things To Do calendar. We work hard to make sure it's always the most useful possible resource for people who are looking for events to go to in Seattle, and we'd love to hear your feedback.
  To that end, we've created a survey about the calendar, and today is the last day to take it—which you should do if you want t
  
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• Mercer Island banker behind move to toughen federal laws on religious hate crimes

  04-06-2018 20:47
  A Mercer Island banker’s outrage over 2017 bomb threats against the Stroum Jewish Community Center led to his spearheading a proposed change to federal hate-crime laws that has passed the House and is headed toward Senate.
  
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• The 32 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: June 4-10, 2018

  04-06-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss Dr. Dog on Saturday—Leilani Polk writes that they "have showmanship down, and it involves much vigorous playing of instruments and everyone jumping around and flinging themselves all over the stage."
  This week, our music critics have picked everything from Australian psych savants King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard to Central District artists Koga Shabazz, Max Moodie, Ralph Redmond, and Limbo Country Club to hardcore flute solo extraordinaire Jeth
  
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• Win Tickets: Cocktails & Chemistry!

  04-06-2018 20:39 via thechildrensmuseum.org
  A 21+ Event on Thursday June 7 at the Seattle Children's Museumby Stranger Things To Do PartnerClick here to enter to win tickets to Cocktails & Chemistry. It's a 21+ event on Thursday, June 7 from 5–8 pm at the Seattle Children's Museum at Seattle Center. The contest will be open until 9:30 am on Wednesday, June 6.
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• Not to Brag or Anything, But I Share an Office with the Guy Who Wrote the Best Song of 1998

  04-06-2018 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Ambushing Sean Nelson with questions about how it feels to have written the best song of 1998, according to Rolling Stone.by Christopher FrizzelleThe songwriter in question balked when I tried to take his photo. CF
  Without fail, whenever I am on the phone with my brothers and I happen to mention work, one of them will say, "Do you still work with that Harvey Danger guy?" I used to be able to say, "Actually I work with two Harvey Danger guys," because the late Aaron Huffman, Stranger art director
  
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• Two firefighters suffer minor injuries in South Seattle basement fire

  04-06-2018 20:23
  The injured firefighters were sent to Harborview Medical Center for precautionary measures.
  
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• Natalia Lafourcade Is a Living Legend and Her Show in Seattle Was Amazing

  04-06-2018 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Édith Piaf de la Veracruz.by Rich SmithNatalia Lafourcade played the Neptune Theatre Saturday night (but not in this dress) and everyone rightly lost their goddamn minds. Courtesy of Sony Music
  Overstating Natalia Lafourcade's greatness risks undercutting the genuine-seeming spirit of joy and playfulness she brings to the stage, but it's just a fact that Natalia Lafourcade is the best singer in the entire world.She's Édith Piaf de la Veracruz. But, instead of luxuriating in the tor
  
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• Long waits under VA’s private health program, report finds

  04-06-2018 19:24
  Congress' auditing arm found veterans often had to wait between 51 and 64 days for appointments with private doctors under the Veterans Choice program, which was just approved for a sweeping expansion as an alternative to the VA health system
  
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• UW Avoids Finals Week Strike by Making Deal With Student Employees

  04-06-2018 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  UW gave up little ground on contentious student fees.by Heidi GrooverUW academic student employees during a one-day strike last month. HG
  The University of Washington will not see a student employee strike during finals week after all.
  After months of negotiating, university administrators and student workers reached a contract deal Friday evening. Members of UAW 4121, which represents 4,500 student employees, voted 62 to 38 percent to approve the deal over the weekend. The deal will improve stu
  
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• Rescuers find missing Boy Scouts after night near summit of Mount Baker

  04-06-2018 19:17
  The four Boy Scouts were airlifted to a hospital in Bellingham to be treated for possible hypothermia, a Whatcom County Sheriff's Deputy said.
  
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• Witnesses of the Same Murder Recall It Differently and Subjectively in Russian Film, The Bottomless Bag

  04-06-2018 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson
  Rashomon, in which multiple people describe the same violent crime, has become the archetypal simile for people trying to describe the problems of subjective perception in establishing truth. Russian film The Bottomless Bag adapts the same short story that inspired Kurosawa’s classic, “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, but to a very different end. The variations in the retelling of the murder story become the keys to discerning the different characters’ s
  
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• AD: Stop paying and start earning.

  04-06-2018 19:10 via veritycu.com
  Earn cash and ATM fee refunds just by using your debit card.by Stranger Things To Do PartnerVerity Credit Union’s Cash Back Checking pays you while you enjoy Seattle’s summer activities.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Naval Base Kitsap submarine commands underreported time spent at sea

  04-06-2018 19:08
  For the past five years, a number of submarines based at Naval Base Kitsap have either underreported or failed to report the number of days assigned personnel have spent at sea, the Kitsap Sun reported last week.
  
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• Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo dies at 92, key figure in Nicaraguan turmoil

  04-06-2018 18:40
  Few Nicaraguans could argue when President Daniel Ortega, in conferring a decoration on the cardinal in 2012, called him “one of the most important personalities in modern Nicaraguan history.”
  
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• Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Human Decency

  04-06-2018 18:36 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThere's no denying that today's Supreme Court ruling in the case of Colorado's anti-gay baker is a morale booster for opponents of LGBT civil equality. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majority decisions in every major pro-gay-rights decision over the last 25 years (Romer v. Evans, Lawrence v. Texas, United States v. Windsor, Obergefell v. Hodges), wrote today's decision—not Alito or Thomas or Gorsuch. The decision was "narrow," as everyone keeps saying, meaning it wa
  
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• Licking cancer: U.S. postal stamp helped fund key breast study

  04-06-2018 18:03
  Proceeds from the breast-cancer stamp put researchers over the top when they were trying to fund the landmark study published Sunday that showed genetic testing can reveal which women need chemo and which do not.
  
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• Boulder-size asteroid disintegrated harmlessly over Africa

  04-06-2018 18:03
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A boulder-size asteroid disintegrated harmlessly over Africa, just hours after its weekend discovery. It’s only the third time scientists have spotted an incoming asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. NASA reported the latest episode Sunday night. The asteroid was discovered out near the moon’s orbit early Saturday, aiming […]
  
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• 4 Scouts from Seattle missing after summit attempt of Mount Baker volcano

  04-06-2018 17:39
  BELLINGHAM — Search and rescue officials say four Scouts are missing in an attempted summit of Mount Baker, a 10,781-foot volcano in Washington state. The Bellingham Herald reports that Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo says the missing climbers are two 13-year-old boys and two adults and part of a Scout troop from Seattle. Elfo said […]
  
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• 4 Scouts from Seattle found after summit attempt of Mount Baker volcano

  04-06-2018 17:39
  Editor’s note:  The four Boy Scouts were airlifted to a hospital in Bellingham to be treated for possible hypothermia, a Whatcom County Sheriff’s Deputy said. Read the updated story here. BELLINGHAM — Search and rescue officials say four Scouts are missing in an attempted summit of Mount Baker, a 10,781-foot volcano in Washington state. The […]
  
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• 4 hospitalized in serious condition after Mount Baker rescue

  04-06-2018 17:39
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Two Boy Scouts and two troop leaders were hospitalized in serious condition and undergoing treatment for hypothermia Monday after spending a night inside a cave high up Mount Baker in Washington state, officials said. Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office said the four sought shelter in the cave on the 10,781-foot (3,286-meter) peak […]
  
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• 2 Boy Scouts, 2 troop leaders rescued from Washington peak

  04-06-2018 17:39
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Two Boy Scouts and two troop leaders spent a night inside a cave high up Mount Baker in Washington state before they were rescued and taken to a hospital with hypothermia, officials said Monday. The four sought shelter in the cave on the 10,781-foot (3,286-meter) peak after they became separated from […]
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Cleans Up Popular Vehicle Dweller Sites, Facebook Is Not Your Friend, Actually A Lot Of Sports

  04-06-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump toys with pardoning himself, Guatemala volcano blows its top, deadly ghost huntingby Nathalie GrahamEt tu Facebook? mactrunk/ Getty Images
  Seattle cleaning up places where vehicles camp: The city has been quietly throwing away thousands of pounds of garbage around vehicle camping hotspots since mid-May. The program started on a smaller scale in November but has since expanded. It originated as a way to address the public health hazard that comes with vehicle camping. Still, the people who
  
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• 2 children die in Wallowa County rafting accident

  04-06-2018 16:56
  TROY, Ore. (AP) — Two young brothers died in a rafting accident over the weekend on the Grande Ronde River in Wallowa County. The Oregon State Police said Monday that the boys were rafting with their father when the raft hit a rock at Martins Misery Rapids and ejected the boys. The father jumped in […]
  
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• Father, son haven’t returned from Oregon fishing trip

  04-06-2018 16:25
  DETROIT, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a father and son who didn’t return from a fishing trip in the Detroit area as planned. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says Monday that the family of the fishermen notified authorities late Sunday that Josh and Corbin “Stacy” Cox were more than six hours late to […]
  
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• Searchers find body of missing high school student in Yakima River

  04-06-2018 16:17
  The body of Dmetri Kennedy-Woody, 18, was found about 100 feet downstream from the railroad bridge from where he jumped on Memorial Day.
  
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• SpaceX launches communication satellite, ditches old booster

  04-06-2018 16:12
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched another satellite for a Luxembourg communication company. But it ditched the recycled booster in the Atlantic following liftoff. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off early Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite operator, SES, tweeted, “What a beautiful start to the week!” The powerful, hefty SES satellite, […]
  
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• Teen, fatally shot in Seattle park, hoped to become a Marine

  04-06-2018 15:00
  The 17-year-old Franklin High School senior, who dreamed of a career in the Marine Corps, went ghost hunting at a local park with friends Friday night, police say. They ran into another group, shots were fired and Ryan Dela Cruz was killed.
  
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• Son, gunned down in Seattle park, hoped to become a Marine

  04-06-2018 15:00
  The 17-year-old Franklin High School senior, who dreamed of a career in the Marine Corps, went ghost hunting at a local park with friends Friday night, police say. They ran into another group, shots were fired and Ryan Dela Cruz was killed.
  
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• 42,000 pounds of garbage: Seattle quietly cleaning up, clearing out hot spots for people living in vehicles

  04-06-2018 15:00
  Seattle is cleaning up trash around clusters of homeless vehicle campers — and sometimes towing them.
  
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• Australian supermarket giants cutting back on plastics

  04-06-2018 13:53
  SYDNEY (AP) — Australians will find fewer plastics on the shelves at Woolworths and Coles stores. The supermarket giants on Monday announced new goals to reduce plastic products and packaging in response to customers wanting a greener shopping experience. Woolworths says all its stores in Australia and New Zealand will no longer sell plastic straws […]
  
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• Study finds rare gain for tough-to-treat pancreatic cancer

  04-06-2018 13:39
  CHICAGO (AP) — Patients with pancreatic cancer that hadn’t spread lived substantially longer on a four-drug combo than on a single standard cancer drug, a rare advance for a tough-to-treat disease, researchers reported Monday. The results indicate the powerful chemotherapy treatment known as folfirinox will likely become standard of care for the minority of patients […]
  
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