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• Can apps like Waze steer you clear of disaster? Maybe not

  17-09-2018 23:42
  Navigation apps like Waze are trying to help motorists avoid hurricane flooding. But can people really rely on their smartphones to steer themselves out of a disaster zone? Amid heavy rain from Florence, some smartphone or in-car map directions in recent days have sent people in North Carolina onto flooded roads and others closed to […]
  
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• Savage Love: Gay and Lonely

  17-09-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonI am a gay man in my late 50s and have never been in a relationship. I am so lonely, and the painful emptiness I feel is becoming absolutely unbearable. In my early 20s, I hooked up off and on, but it never developed into anything. I have always told myself that's okay; I'm not a people person or a relationship kind of guy. I have a few lesbian friends but no male friends. I have social anxiety and can't go to bars or clubs. When hookup apps were introduced, I used them i
  
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• Her Boyfriend Won't Let Her Go To HUMP! Without Him

  17-09-2018 23:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  New to Savage Love. My SO and I love porn, so I was really excited when I discovered HUMP! Film Fest. We cleared our schedules and I purchased tickets. Unfortunately, his schedule with his children changed and he is no longer able to go. But he has made it clear that he does not want me to go without him. He doesn’t believe this will be an appropriate event for me to attend solo because I have a history of infidelity (in previous relationships), I
  
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• Highway 99 Tunnel Opening Delayed (Again), This Time Until 2019

  17-09-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Highway 99 tunnel is late, again, but this time it's not Bertha's fault.by Lester BlackThis tunnel took $3.2 billion to build and is now three years late. WSDOT
  The long delayed and hugely expensive Highway 99 tunnel underneath the Seattle waterfront won't open until early 2019, according to a news release today from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).WSDOT said in January of this year the tunnel would open in the fall, but now that deadline has been pushed back to ear
  
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• Finding Fixes, a Seattle Podcast on Solving the Opioid Crisis, Launches Monday

  17-09-2018 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Tinnakorn Jorruang/Getty
  Seattle radio producer Anna Boiko-Weyrauch was tired of reading stories about the opioid crisis that discussed suffering more than solutions, and so she decided to do something about it."There ARE solutions!" Boiko-Weyrauch, the host of Finding Fixes—a podcast from InvestigateWest that focuses on the opioid crisis in Snohomish County—told me in an email. "And communities across the United States are trying them out. The thing is, the solutions
  
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• Finding Fixes, a Seattle Podcast on Solving the Opiod Crisis, Launches Monday

  17-09-2018 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Tinnakorn Jorruang/Getty
  Seattle radio producer Anna Boiko-Weyrauch was tired of reading stories about the opioid crisis that discussed suffering more than solutions, and so she decided to do something about it."There ARE solutions!" Boiko-Weyrauch, the host of Finding Fixes—a podcast from InvestigateWest that focuses on the opioid crisis in Snohomish County—told me in an email. "And communities across the United States are trying them out. The thing is, the solutions
  
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• The Best Art Shows & Events in Seattle: Fall 2018

  17-09-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffStarting in October, SAM will play host to Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India, a traveling exhibition of some 250 artworks and objects that trace four centuries of royal history of the Rathore dynasty of Rajasthan, India. Maharao Umed Singh of Kota on a Hunt, 1780, Sheikh Taju, Kota, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 26 × 20 1/2 in., Mehrangarh Museum Trust, photo: Neil Greentree
  Take refuge from fall's cooler temperatures inside a muse
  
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• Facebook Continues to Defy Washington State Law on Political Ad Disclosure

  17-09-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Regulators told the company to comply with a Stranger request. Months later, Facebook still hasn't complied.by Eli SandersThe law is clear. Specific data on local political ads should be publicly available. But Zuckerberg's company won't share specific data with The Stranger. Chip Somodevilla / Staff
  More than three months ago, The Stranger asked Facebook for all the information it's legally required to disclose about political ads that were purchased to influence this spring's raging fight over
  
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• The Viaduct will close, the tunnel will open: What do you want to know about the Highway 99 project?

  17-09-2018 21:50
  As agencies prepare for this major change in the transportation network, we want to hear from you: What do you want to know about the project and how traffic will move through downtown Seattle?
  
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• The Viaduct will close in January and the tunnel open: What do you want to know about the Highway 99 project?

  17-09-2018 21:50
  The Alaskan Way Viaduct is expected to close for good in January and the new four-lane Highway 99 tunnel will open a few weeks later. For 65 years, drivers have had a waterfront view of Elliott Bay through downtown Seattle. Soon, motorists will enter the tunnel’s north portal  near Harrison Street or the south portal in […]
  
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• Rosasia is Officially Dead

  17-09-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Asia Argento and Rose McGowan are donesies.by Katie HerzogHappier times for Asia Argento and Rose McGowanJon Kopaloff/GettyHas Asia Argento been on a social media fast or something? Three weeks after her former BFF and fellow Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan released a statement condemning Argento for allegedly sleeping with a teenager, Argento finally responded to McGowan on Monday:Dear @RoseMcGowan. It is with genuine regret that I am giving you 24 hours to retract and apologise for the horrendo
  
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• Permanent closure of Alaskan Way Viaduct delayed until January

  17-09-2018 21:45
  The new timeline, announced Monday, stretches the $2.2 billion megaproject a full three years beyond the original schedule. Several reasons are behind this delay.
  
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• Shan Tianfang, a superstar of Chinese storytelling, dies at 83

  17-09-2018 21:26
  Shan Tianfang, a prominent storyteller whose energetic oral renditions of classical Chinese novels and historical events propelled the ancient pingshu tradition into the modern age for generations of Chinese, has died. He was 83.
  
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• The 70 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Sept 17-23, 2018

  17-09-2018 21:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffPacific Northwest Ballet will honor the work of the artist who choreographed everything from Fiddler on the Roof to West Side Story at the Jerome Robbins Festival this weekend.Angela Sterling
  Our music critics have already chosen the 35 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 for the best events in every genre—from the Local Sightings Film Festival to the Hugo Hou
  
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• Toppled trees, swift water, have killed many during Florence

  17-09-2018 21:08
  Several of the people who died in recent days were swept up in stormwaters. Here's a look at Florence's victims.
  
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• Grizzly’s unusually aggressive behavior in Wyoming a puzzle

  17-09-2018 21:07
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife officials are puzzled why a grizzly bear that killed a hunting guide and injured his client was behaving so aggressively. The grizzly attacked the men Friday and charged five Wyoming Game and Fish Department employees Sunday in the wilderness east of Grand Teton National Park. Two game officers opened fire, […]
  
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• Grizzly’s rare aggressive attack kills 1, puzzles officials

  17-09-2018 21:07
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Grizzly bears aren’t docile animals, but an especially aggressive attack that killed a hunting guide and injured his client is puzzling wildlife officials. A female bear that was with its cub killed Mark Uptain of Jackson Hole and injured Corey Chubon of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, after they went to cut […]
  
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• The 35 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: Sept 17-23, 2018

  17-09-2018 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffYouthful New York-based four-piece Parquet Courts will play their new Ellen DeGeneres–endorsed jams on Sunday.Ebru Yildiz
  This week, our music critics have picked everything from punk-rock icons Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and Cheap Trick to the electronic music festival Kremfest to a John Coltrane Birthday Celebration Weekend. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music cal
  
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• Trump Administration Uses Bureaucracy to Choke Immigration System

  17-09-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogAn immigrant says goodbye to his family before deportation.Scott Olson/Getty Images
  The Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy on the southern border has somewhat faded from the news after they agreed to stop separating parents and their kids, but the story hardly ended there. The administration has limited immigration in dozens of ways, and over the weekend, This American Life aired a stunning hour on public radio stations across the US about how the government is using i
  
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• Past NASA chiefs gather for space agency’s 60th anniversary

  17-09-2018 20:29
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — NASA chiefs going back 30 years have come together to mark the space agency’s 60th anniversary. Five former NASA administrators joined current boss Jim Bridenstine in Orlando on Monday. It was the largest gathering ever of NASA heads and included every administrator since 1989. The conference was arranged by the American […]
  
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• The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle: Fall 2018

  17-09-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAlice Walker, the brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith behind The Color Purple, will read poetry at a Seattle Arts & Lectures event in October. Ana Elena
  Want to curl up with a great read this fall? Get inspired by the host of authors coming to town, including buzzy novelist Lauren Groff, Broad City star and essayist Abbi Jacobson, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Alice Walker, and popular science writer Neil deGrasse Tyson. Below, we've compiled all of
  
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• Watchdog: EPA asbestos protection for schoolchildren lagging

  17-09-2018 20:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is shifting money away from a congressionally mandated program meant to get harmful asbestos out of schools, even though the threat of contamination remains, the agency’s internal watchdog said on Monday. Asbestos, which builders used for decades as insulation and as a fire-resistant material, can cause lung diseases, […]
  
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• North Carolina says it’s opened a major route into city of Wilmington, previously cut off by Florence’s floods

  17-09-2018 19:46
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina says it’s opened a major route into city of Wilmington, previously cut off by Florence’s floods.
  
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• Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare.

  17-09-2018 19:30
  The U.S. Agriculture Department scientists who gave us the Bradford pear thought they were improving our world. Instead, they left an environmental time bomb that has now exploded.
  
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• DJ Mamma Casserole Mixes Eclectic Musical Fun and Social Activism on the Decks

  17-09-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  DJ Mamma Casserole loves to play music that has "a whole lot of sensuality and the Devil in it."by Dave Segal"When I spin, I feel like I’m going on a musical road trip with no map and lots of detours." Michelle Smith
  DJ MAMMA CASSEROLE (aka MICHELLE SMITH)
  Current top 5 tracks:
  Rim Kwaku Obeng and Kasa, "Love Me for Real" (BBE) Fun Boy Three, "Our Lips Are Sealed (Urdu Version)" (Chrysalis)The Amranim, "Shedemati" (from the Da’asa - The Haunting Sounds of Yemenite-Israeli Funk 1973-1
  
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• The Best Film Festivals & Movie Releases in Seattle: Fall 2018

  17-09-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWatch Kusama: Infinity, coming to the Northwest Film Forum in October, to learn about the woman behind the jaunty, oft-copied polka dot installations that everyone was obsessed with last year. Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc.
  In addition to its wealth of film festivals (devoted to everything from cats to local filmmakers to French culture), fall is also full of Oscar-bait movies (don't miss Mary Queen of Scots), indie gems (like Kusama: Infinity), and screenings of autum
  
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• The rivers keep rising, but some in flood zones won’t leave

  17-09-2018 18:50
  As the days drag on, Hurricane Florence has taken a deceptive turn: The violent winds have subsided and the pounding rain has eased, lulling many in the storm's path into thinking the worst is over— even as rivers continue to rise.
  
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• In Carolinas, a question as the rivers rise: Stay or go?

  17-09-2018 18:50
  As the days drag on, Hurricane Florence has taken a deceptive turn: The violent winds have subsided and the pounding rain has eased, lulling many in the storm's path into thinking the worst is over— even as rivers continue to rise.
  
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• Tacoma firefighters battle blaze in scrap-metal yard

  17-09-2018 18:48
  A large cloud of dark smoke could be seen rising from the Tacoma Tideflats as the sun began to rise Monday.
  
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• Noxious Tacoma scrap-metal fire under control; nearby air quality has improved

  17-09-2018 18:48
  A large cloud of dark smoke could be seen rising from the Tacoma Tideflats as the sun began to rise Monday.
  
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• Pray For Snow, Please

  17-09-2018 18:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Mount Rainier got a dumping of snow this weekend - is this a good sign of what's to come?by Lester BlackWill Stevens Pass be cold and snowy or warm and dry this winter? SEASTOCK/ Getty Images
  While much of Seattle dreads our slow, rainy walk into our gloomy winter, especially those of us that only recently moved here from California, there’s a small subset of the population that grows more excited with each additional minute of light shaved off our days. We relish in the lowland’s ra
  
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• WSU making good progress is reducing budget deficit

  17-09-2018 18:12
  Washington State University officials used a combination of spending cuts and greater-than-expected revenue growth to cut the deficit. The plan is to balance the operating budget by the end of fiscal year 2020.
  
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• WSU making good progress in reducing budget deficit

  17-09-2018 18:12
  Washington State University officials used a combination of spending cuts and greater-than-expected revenue growth to cut the deficit. The plan is to balance the operating budget by the end of fiscal year 2020.
  
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• Amazingly, Dev Hynes Did Not Turn Into a Swan on Saturday

  17-09-2018 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  In a majority white crowd, some emotions and references just didn't, couldn't be translated successfully.by Jasmyne KeimigBlood Orange's Dev Hynes, or maybe a swan.Sean Zanni / Stringer
  When first faced with seeing Blood Orange perform his new album, Negro Swan, at theMoore last Saturday night, I had some questions: What did Negro Swan even mean? And how would Dev Hynes, the man behind Blood Orange, translate his album, which I found a bit choppy, to live performance?Having never been to the Moo
  
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• Amazingly, Dev Hynes Did Not Turn Into a Swan at the Moore on Saturday

  17-09-2018 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  In a majority white crowd, some emotions and references just didn't, couldn't be translated successfully.by Jasmyne KeimigBlood Orange's Dev Hynes, or maybe a swan.Sean Zanni / Stringer
  When first faced with seeing Blood Orange perform his new album, Negro Swan, at theMoore last Saturday night, I had some questions: What did Negro Swan even mean? And how would Dev Hynes, the man behind Blood Orange, translate his album, which I found a bit choppy, to live performance?Having never been to the Moo
  
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• 1 person dead after officer-involved shooting in Walla Walla

  17-09-2018 17:07
  WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Police say one person is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Walla Walla. KEPR-TV reports three Walla Police Department officers were placed on administrative leave after the fatal officer-involved shooting Sunday night. The Walla Walla Police Department says the officers were responding to a report of a suicidal person armed […]
  
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• 2 million US teens are vaping marijuana

  17-09-2018 17:01
  E-cigarettes typically contain nicotine, but results published Monday mean 2.1 million middle- and high-school students have used them to get high on marijuana.
  
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• SpaceX to announce private moon flight passenger

  17-09-2018 17:00
  HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX is on the verge of announcing the name of person who would be the first private passenger on a trip around the moon. The identity of the traveler will be revealed at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, during an event Monday evening. SpaceX gave no details of the flight but […]
  
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• SpaceX close to announcing 1st private moon flight passenger

  17-09-2018 17:00
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — SpaceX is on the verge of announcing the name of person who would be the first private passenger on a trip around the moon. The identity of the traveler will be revealed at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, during an event Monday evening. SpaceX gave no details of the flight but […]
  
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• Slog AM: Brock Long Is Our FEMA Administrator—not a Porn Star, Creepy Kavanaugh’s Creeping Past, Wannabe Ballard Tornado Is Not a Tornado

  17-09-2018 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Brock Long is the FEMA administrator we get, not the porn star we deserve . . . funnel cloud is just a wannabe tornado . . . what majestic animal will the think to shoot next?by Michael Bell Nota live look at Ballard now, yesterday, or ever koto_feja/ Getty Images
  Brock Long is the name of the FEMA administrator we get, not the name of the porn star we deserve: FEMA Administrator Brock Long went onto NBC’s Meet The Press to discuss hurricane Florence, and also to defend FEMA’s respon
  
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• With deal reached in Tumwater, all Washington teacher contract conflicts settled

  17-09-2018 16:55
  Tumwater teachers were the last of the Washington state educators on the picket lines and school was expected to start for the district's 6,800 children on Tuesday. Classes resumed in Tacoma on Monday after a 10-day strike.
  
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• Strike ending for last Washington teachers still picketing

  17-09-2018 16:55
  Tumwater teachers were the last of the Washington state educators on the picket lines and school was expected to start for the district's 6,800 children on Tuesday. Classes resumed in Tacoma on Monday after a 10-day strike.
  
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• Man accidentally shoots himself at Chuck E. Cheese in Tacoma

  17-09-2018 16:14
  Tacoma police say the shooter had a concealed-carry permit for the weapon, though firearms are banned at the restaurant.
  
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• ‘When is it OK for the police to kill someone you love?’, BLM’s McKesson pivots from ‘awareness’ to the ‘fix’

  17-09-2018 15:00
  Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is scheduled to be in town Friday to talk about his work and his new book, “On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope.”
  
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• What would it cost to house and provide treatment for Seattle’s homeless?

  17-09-2018 15:00
  We set out to answer the second most-popular question submitted to Ask Project Homeless. It sounds simple, but it's not, because different people need — and will accept — different services. Here are some of the dollar figures.
  
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• Trying to make good on someone else’s promise: new group helps 10 Seattle kids pay for college

  17-09-2018 15:00
  A Detroit businessman pledged $100,000 in scholarships to 10 local teens who wrote essays about what each would do to improve the image of African-American males. The money never came. Now a group of black Seattle-area professionals is coming together to restore faith.
  
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• Seattle kids’ scholarship money falls through — and local black community steps in to help

  17-09-2018 15:00
  A Detroit businessman pledged $100,000 in scholarships to 10 local teens who wrote essays about what each would do to improve the image of African-American males. The money never came. Now a group of black Seattle-area professionals is coming together to restore faith.
  
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• Hope fades in Philippines for dozens trapped in landslides

  17-09-2018 09:30
  ITOGON, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine mayor said Monday that it’s unlikely any of the dozens of people thought buried in a huge landslide set off by Typhoon Mangkhut will be found alive, though rescuers were still digging through the massive mound of mud and debris covering a chapel where they had sheltered. Mayor Victorio […]
  
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• Hope fades in Philippines for dozens buried in landslides after typhoon

  17-09-2018 09:30
  ITOGON, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of people believed buried in a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines probably did not survive, a mayor said Monday, although rescuers kept digging through mud and debris covering a chapel where they had taken shelter. Of the 40 to 50 miners and their families believed inside the […]
  
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• Hope fades in Philippines for dozens buried in landslides

  17-09-2018 09:30
  ITOGON, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of people believed buried in a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines probably did not survive, a mayor said Monday, although rescuers kept digging through mud and debris covering a chapel where they had taken shelter. Of the 40 to 50 miners and their families believed inside the […]
  
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