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• Woman dies after SUV hits dump truck near Sammamish; Highway 202 temporarily closed

  05-09-2018 23:53
  A woman died after her SUV crossed the center line of Highway 202 and hit a double dump truck near Sammamish about noon on Wednesday, according to Washington State Patrol. The dump truck rolled over and the driver was able to escape the cabin before the truck was engulfed in flames, Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick […]
  
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• Woman dies after SUV hits dump truck near Sammamish

  05-09-2018 23:53
  Fire erupts after fatal collisionnear Sammamish.
  
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• Glenn Close Simmers in the Oscar-Worthy The Wife

  05-09-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The Wifesticks with you.by Katie HerzogThe happy coupleThe WifeThe upside of reviewing films is that you get to spend quiet afternoons in a dark theatre instead of stuck at a desk. The downside is that every once in a while you see a film so effecting that all you want to do is talk about it but no one else has seen it yet. The Wife is one of those films.
  Based on a novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer, the wife, in this case, is Joan Castleman—played by a brilliant Glenn Close, in perha
  
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• I'm Turned On When I Force My Boyfriend to Eat, but Am I Forcing Him to Eat Too Much?

  05-09-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on Oct 15, 2009.I'm a 25-year-old girl dating a 26-year-old guy. My boyfriend identifies as sexually submissive. He likes to be tied up, put in women's underwear, and locked in a chastity device, and he has a strong urge to please. I hate the term, but I suppose you could call me a "feeder." I am turned on by the idea of someone eating a lot of food, usually junk food, and putting on weight.
  It's probably related, but I'm also a bit
  
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• Yes, We Should Preserve Our Historic Landmarks. But the Showbox Isn’t One of Them.

  05-09-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  This approach to preservation is like killing a fly with a Howitzer.by David ColeShown here: a historic landmark building. Not a landmark: the Showbox Theater. David Cole
  Now that I’ve been living in the Pacific Northwest for a bit over two years, I sometimes reflect on the things I miss and don’t miss about living back east.
  Things I most certainly don’t miss include the stifling humidity, the allergies (I’m literally allergic to the air in my own hometown), and the blea
  
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• A Word from a Woman Who Got Arrested at the Kavanaugh Hearings

  05-09-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  Episode 164 of the Blabbermouth podcast.Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dozens of people have now been arrested for protesting inside the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. We talk to one of them: Tiffany Hankins.After that, Eli Sanders, Rich Smith, and Katie Herzog talk about whether Democrats are really showing enough spine in trying to stop Kavanaugh, and what more they can really do without a Senate majority.Next: The New Yorker’s decision to invite Steve B
  
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• A High-Level "Resistance" Mole Inside the Trump Administration Just Published an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed

  05-09-2018 22:23 via thestranger.com
  
  No doubt President Trump is going to react well to this one.by Eli Sanders"There were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment," the mole writes. Getty Images
  I don't know if this will end up being the "deep throat" leak of the Trump Era, but it does seem pretty big: an anonymous "senior official in the Trump administration" just published an op-ed in The New York Times describing an amoral, unfocused, despotic president who has to be reigned in by a secret "resistance" m
  
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• By Scale, Seattle Has More People Living on the Streets Than New York and LA

  05-09-2018 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeFrozen in Seattle debibishop/gettyimages.com
  The popular talk about the Seattle freeze concerns the absence of friendliness. The people in this city are not, it is believed, as welcoming or openly good-natured as, say, the folks in places like Denver or Memphis or Atlanta. Wikipedia even has an entry devoted to this topic. It claims that "newcomers to the area have described Seattleites as being standoffish, cold, distant, and distrustful." But all of this is pretty meaningless.
  
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• Barbara Bailey, co-owner of Bailey/Coy Books, dies at 74

  05-09-2018 21:54
  Barbara Bailey, whose bookshop Bailey/Coy Books was a hub of literary and community activity on Capitol Hill for more than two decades, died last weekend, at the age of 74.
  
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• Fans of Sublime Frequencies' Group Doueh Will Want to See Oulaya’s Wedding at Northwest Film Forum Tonight

  05-09-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're into the hypnotic desert-blues-rock of Sublime Frequencies' Group Doueh, you should see the documentary Oulaya’s Wedding at Northwest Film Forum tonight.by Dave Segal
  Last-minute recommendation for fans of the exhilarating acid-blues-rock unit Group Doueh, who play a prominent role in a film titled Oulaya's Wedding, which screens at 8 pm at Northwest Film Forum. A collaboration between Raw Music International and former Seattle label Sublime Frequencies, the documentary is direct
  
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• Canada proposes more habitat protection for southern-resident orcas

  05-09-2018 20:48
  As the southern resident killer whales struggle to birth healthy young, Canada has proposed increasing their critical habitat. The whales are threatened by underwater noise interfering with their ability to hunt, as well as reduced populations of their primary prey, chinook salmon.
  
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• Sheriff’s Office investigating drive-by shooting in Everett

  05-09-2018 20:45
  An 18-year-old man suffered a non-life-threatening injury. He was taken to Providence Regional Medical Center, and has been uncooperative with the investigation so far, according to the sheriff's office.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Deconstructed Genius of "Horizontal Hold" by Post-Punk Iconoclasts This Heat

  05-09-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The version of "Horizontal Hold" on This Heat's newly reissued 1977 Peel Session LP represents a radical peak in rock subversion.by Dave Segal"Horizontal Hold" represents the peak of This Heat's radical subversion of rock-song conventions. Light in the Attic/Modern Classics Recordings
  You should know by now that Light in the Attic's Modern Classics Recordings subsidiary has been reissuing the catalog of British post-punk mavericks This Heat. In 2016, MCR re-released This Heat, Deceit, and Health
  
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• The Band’s Music from Big Pink Turns 50

  05-09-2018 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  A vinyl reissue and deluxe box set feature a larger-than-life remix of the Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink.by Ned LannamannWith the obvious exception of Sgt. Pepper, no album from the late ’60s has been canonized and mythologized like the Band’s 1968 full-length debut, Music from Big Pink. Released with only a crude Bob Dylan painting on the cover to identify it—the group’s generically un-Google-able name hadn’t been decided on yet—, the album wa
  
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• Seattle NHL Owner Accused of Being “Virulently Anti-Union”

  05-09-2018 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  The future owner of an NHL team in Seattle is being accused of being "virulently anti-union."by Lester BlackEuropean unions don't like David Bonderman.Larry Busacca / Getty Images
  Is the city of Seattle getting ready to ink a business deal with an anti-union billionaire? That might be the case, after the billionaire behind the city’s future NHL team was accused yesterday of being “virulenty anti-union” over his management of a budget European airline.
  David Bonderman, who co-ow
  
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• Sean Spicer Is Coming to Town for the Washington GOP's Annual Dinner

  05-09-2018 18:24 via thestranger.com
  
  All proceeds go to Republicans running for state and national office, including Dino Rossi, Susan Hutchison, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.by Rich SmithThis is who shows up now if you say 'Beetlejuice' three times out loud. Washington State Republican PartySean Spicer has served as a pugnacious, dissembling mouthpiece for American tyranny since the moment he walked up to the podium and lied about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd at his first press briefing. No
  
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• Amazon Opens Third Grab and Go Grocery. Will Whole Foods Axe Cashiers Next?

  05-09-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Whole Foods has an estimated 90,000 employees.by Katie Herzog Whole FoodsOn Tuesday Amazon opened their third Amazon Go, the cashier-less grocery store, in Seattle. It is the second grocery Amazon has quiety opened in the past week, as GeekWire points out, and, considering that Amazon is the proud owner of Whole Foods Market, it makes you wonder: How long until this model replaces the cashiers at Whole Foods as well?I worked a Whole Foods for a while in my 20s. To be frank, I fucking hated it. A
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Heads Back to School, Seattle Storm Headed to WNBA Finals

  05-09-2018 17:05 via thestranger.com
  
  More Amazon Go stores, a new Tacoma aquarium, a big day in D.C.by Nathalie GrahamSharpen your Ticonderogas and bring out your Jansports Kritchanut/ Getty Images
  Back to school for Seattle teachers: The teachers reached a tentative deal Friday with their unions for a one year contract with a 10.5 percent pay raise. Still, many are worried the deal will fall short of their expectations, reports the Seattle Times. The dream had been a 15 percent raise. Six districts in western Washington will not h
  
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• Passengers on quarantined jet appear to have the flu

  05-09-2018 16:15
  NEW YORK (AP) — A large commercial jet from Dubai caused a scare on Wednesday after a pilot radioed that it would be landing at New York’s Kennedy Airport carrying several passengers and crew members who fell ill with flu-like symptoms. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately quarantined the double-decker Emirates aircraft […]
  
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• Jet quarantined in New York after reports of sick passengers

  05-09-2018 16:15
  NEW YORK (AP) — A commercial jet from Dubai prompted a large-scale emergency response at New York’s Kennedy Airport on Wednesday after a pilot reported that several passengers and crew members were complaining about having a flu-like illness. The Emirates flight arriving at 9:10 a.m. with 520 passengers was swarmed by police vehicles and ambulances […]
  
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• 10 passengers fall ill on flight; plane quarantined at JFK

  05-09-2018 16:15
  NEW YORK (AP) — A plane has been quarantined at New York’s Kennedy Airport when about 10 passengers became ill aboard a flight from Dubai. The Emirates flight landed around 9:10 a.m. Wednesday. The airline says the passengers were getting medical attention “as a precaution.” Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on the […]
  
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• Forecasters: Florence is now a major hurricane, category 3 with 120 mph winds, moving in the Atlantic toward Bermuda.

  05-09-2018 15:21
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters: Florence is now a major hurricane, category 3 with 120 mph winds, moving in the Atlantic toward Bermuda.
  
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• Former Mayor Ed Murray settles lawsuit over disputed legal fees

  05-09-2018 15:00
  A law firm hired by former Mayor Ed Murray claimed he failed to pay $12,455 in legal fees. Murray denied he owed that amount, and the firm’s lawsuit was settled last week for an undisclosed sum.
  
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• Gordon weakens to a tropical depression over central Mississippi after hitting Gulf Coast as a tropical storm

  05-09-2018 14:04
  MIAMI (AP) — Gordon weakens to a tropical depression over central Mississippi after hitting Gulf Coast as a tropical storm.
  
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• Seattle teachers to return to classrooms, wondering if they got a good deal

  05-09-2018 14:00
  Even with the limited information offered so far, some Seattle educators expressed the deal has fallen short of their expectations.
  
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• His wife said he died falling down the stairs; police say she poisoned him — with eye drops

  05-09-2018 11:56
  The house sits on an exclusive thumb of land dangling into Lake Wylie on South Carolina’s northeastern edge. Setting out from the nearby shore in a boat pointed east with a paddle, it wouldn’t take you long to splash over the state line into North Carolina. Painted mint-green, its balconies and porches overlooking a lawn […]
  
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• 28 people missing after boat capsizes in India’s northeast

  05-09-2018 11:49
  GAUHATI, India (AP) — Police in India say 28 people are missing after a motorized boat capsized in the flooded Brahmputra River in the remote northeast. Police officer Mihirjit Dayan says the boat was bringing 40 people to Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, from a village across the river. He says 12 people have […]
  
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• 22 people missing after boat capsizes in India’s northeast

  05-09-2018 11:49
  GAUHATI, India (AP) — Police were searching Wednesday for 22 people who were missing after a motorized boat capsized in the flooded Brahmputra River in India’s remote northeast. Three bodies were recovered and 11 people were rescued. Police officer Mihirjit Dayan said the boat was carrying 36 people to Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, […]
  
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• In Oregon’s deep-red Trump Country, Democrat campaigns hard for U.S. House seat

  05-09-2018 08:04
  Jamie McLeod-Skinner is traveling the 2nd District - as big as North Dakota - in her Jeep, pulling a tiny trailer she sometimes sleeps in. She says the incumbent doesn't represent the rural district's interest. And at least one political observer thinks she just might win.
  
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• Democrat logs 35K miles in long-shot bid in Trump territory

  05-09-2018 08:04
  Jamie McLeod-Skinner is traveling the 2nd District - as big as North Dakota - in her Jeep, pulling a tiny trailer she sometimes sleeps in. She says the incumbent doesn't represent the rural district's interest. And at least one political observer thinks she just might win.
  
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• Oregon State scientists examine Mount St. Helens formation

  05-09-2018 07:18
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University scientists may have the answer to why Mount St. Helens is out of line with other major Volcanoes on the Cascade Range. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports university geophysicist Adam Schultz and his team think a giant subsurface rock formation diverted magma, causing Mount St. Helens to form west […]
  
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• Read the full tentative contract between Seattle Public Schools and its teachers union

  05-09-2018 06:43
  The tentative agreement between Seattle Public Schools and its teachers union includes more personal days, more money for professional development and additional pay benefits for special educators.
  
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• Read highlights and full tentative contract between Seattle Public Schools and teachers union

  05-09-2018 06:43
  The tentative agreement between Seattle Public Schools and its teachers union includes more personal days, more money for professional development and additional pay benefits for special educators.
  
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• Yakima misses deadline, loses $400,000 for street project

  05-09-2018 05:30
  Yakima lost $400,000 in federal funding to upgrade alleys; staff says it’s overworked and that the grant fell through the cracks.
  
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• US Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Gordon makes landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border

  05-09-2018 05:09
  BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — US Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Gordon makes landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border .
  
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• Yakima County settles lawsuit for $1.6M, promises to fix intersection where teen died

  05-09-2018 05:01
  Yakima County settles wrongful-death lawsuit for $1.6 million and promises to improve dangerous intersection where 17-year-old lost his life.
  
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• Gordon, never a hurricane, killed child in mobile home

  05-09-2018 04:39
  DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall. The storm later weakened into a depression on Wednesday but remained dangerous, dumping rain, spawning tornadoes and kicking up heavy surf […]
  
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• Gordon makes landfall near Alabama-Mississippi border

  05-09-2018 04:39
  GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Thousands of people were without power as Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The National Hurricane center said Gordon struck about 10 p.m. and the storm is forecast to quickly weaken as it moves inland across Mississippi, Louisiana and into Arkansas through Thursday. It […]
  
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• Florida child killed by falling tree as Gordon strikes land

  05-09-2018 04:39
  GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A child died when a tree fell onto a mobile home in Florida late Tuesday as Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The Escambia County Sheriff’s office posted on its Facebook page that deputies responded to a call of the fallen tree in Pensacola and discovered […]
  
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• Typhoon leaves major airport closed and destruction in Japan

  05-09-2018 04:09
  TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan’s busiest airports remained closed indefinitely, a day after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in at least 25 years flooded a runway, toppled huge cranes, flipped cars on their side, damaged historic shrines and caused at least 11 deaths as it swept across part of Japan’s main island. Typhoon […]
  
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• Typhoon floods Japan airport, damages other infrastructure

  05-09-2018 04:09
  TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan’s busiest airports remained closed indefinitely after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in at least 25 years flooded a runway and other facilities while damaging other infrastructure and causing at least 10 deaths as it swept across part of Japan’s main island. More than 400,000 households in western and […]
  
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• Stranded people leave flooded airport after typhoon in Japan

  05-09-2018 04:09
  TOKYO (AP) — People stranded at a flooded offshore airport overnight returned by boat and bus to the Japanese mainland Wednesday after a typhoon swept across part of Japan’s main island. Japanese broadcaster NHK showed aerial footage of the boat and a caravan of buses transporting about 3,000 people from Kansai International Airport across a […]
  
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• Salmon on the move at Ballard Locks

  05-09-2018 04:02
  Visitors watch coho and chinook salmon head home to fresh waters to spawn.
  
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• Here’s a way to solve the impasse over Safeco Field: We should sell it

  05-09-2018 03:31
  We, the people, own Safeco Field, as the Mariners keep reminding us. So what if we just sold it to them — or even gave it to the team for free? The public would get more return, and we would finally be rid of this perennial tug of war over subsidizing pro sports.
  
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• Hurricane Center: Tropical storm-force winds from Gordon spreading onshore along Alabama and western Florida Panhandle

  05-09-2018 01:57
  BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Hurricane Center: Tropical storm-force winds from Gordon spreading onshore along Alabama and western Florida Panhandle .
  
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• Savage Love: Shooting Stars

  05-09-2018 01:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageJoe Newton
  I'm a cis woman in my mid-40s, and my significant other has a cuckolding fetish. My first response was "Oh, hell no!" But if I'm willing to have a threesome, how much further of a stretch is it, really? He does have some experience with this varsity-level kink, so he knows what to expect. I've asked him some questions, but some things I prefer to research on my own. My questions for you: (1) I don't get cuckolding. I've read all about it, but nothing about it resonates wi
  
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