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• A Clallam County sheriff’s sergeant fatally shot a man in 2016 — but a new lawsuit blames another officer

  11-07-2019 23:57
  Federal lawsuit alleges former Forks police officer Mike Gentry escalated a routine check-the-welfare call into a deadly confrontation by attempting to use a Taser on Edward Hills while he was talking to another officer.
  
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• A Clallam County sergeant fatally shot a man in 2016 — but a new lawsuit blames another officer

  11-07-2019 23:57
  Federal lawsuit alleges former Forks police officer Mike Gentry escalated a routine check-the-welfare call into a deadly confrontation by attempting to use a Taser on Edward Hills while he was talking to another officer.
  
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• There Are Only Three More Days of The Stranger's Burger Week—Don't Miss Out On These $5 Burgers!

  11-07-2019 23:25
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffEach of these burgers is $5.
  In case you haven't heard, it's The Stranger’s Burger Week: From now until Saturday, you can get one-of-a-kind burgers created exclusively for this week at restaurants across the city, for just $5 a pop! All of the details are available on our Burger Week calendar, but, to make it even easier for you to eat as many of these delicious creations as possible, we've also compiled them all below, sorted by neighborhood. Read on to see a
  
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• Can Drum & Bass Legend Roni Size Rekindle That New Forms Magic Tonight at Nectar?

  11-07-2019 23:00
  by Dave Segal View this post on InstagramA post shared by 🅁🄾🄽🄸 🅂🄸🅉🄴 (@ronisizebristol) on Jun 30, 2019 at 10:57am PDT
  I'll admit, I didn't think UK drum & bass producer Roni Size was still in the music game. Like many, I assumed he faded out after 2000’s In the Mode, the slightly disappointing, rap-heavy follow-up to 1997’s D&B paradigm-shifter, New Forms. Don’t get me wrong: In the Mode is a solid record w
  
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• Alaska lawmakers again fail to override governor vetoes

  11-07-2019 22:56
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Legislature again failed to override budget vetoes by Gov. Mike Dunleavy as minority members of the Alaska House of Representatives and a handful of state senators were absent. State lawmakers opposing vetoes say the budget cuts will cripple the University of Alaska and seriously damage the state economy. About […]
  
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• How to Prepare for ICE Raids in Washington State

  11-07-2019 22:32
  
  by Rich SmithIf ICE is at your door: don't open the door, remain quiet, and call the hotline at 1-844-724-3737. JOHN MOORE/GETTY
  On Sunday, Trump will direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to round up and deport 2,000 immigrants who allegedly missed their day in court or who were ordered deported. They will also detain any other undocumented immigrants hanging around targeted immigrants at the time of the raid.According to CNN, ICE plans to carry out the mass arrests in 10 cities, in
  
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• Environmental groups decry bid to reopen troubled mega-dairy

  11-07-2019 22:03
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The new owner of a troubled mega-dairy operation that violated hundreds of environmental rules wants to reopen the facility, drawing fresh opposition from environmental groups. Washington-state based Easterday Farms requested permission from the Oregon Department of Agriculture earlier this month to house over 28,000 animals on the site of the now-shuttered […]
  
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• Powerful Koch network taking on school choice with new group

  11-07-2019 22:00
  SEATTLE (AP) — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch’s powerful network that’s known for influencing state policy is now targeting education issues like school choice as the movement battles a new wave of hostility from Democrats who oppose charter schools and private school vouchers that use taxpayer money. Koch in June announced the Yes Every Kid initiative […]
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Premiere of the Euphoric "High Rise" by Seattle Bliss-Rockers somesurprises

  11-07-2019 22:00
  
  Check out The Stranger's premiere of "High Rise" by somesurprises, one of Seattle's dreamiest and best rock bands, from their forthcoming LP on Drawing Room.by Dave Segalsomesurprises leader Natasha El-Sergany, moonlighting from her job with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Jesse Hughey
  somesurprises, "High Rise" (Drawing Room)
  Through hard work and excellent songwriting and producing over the last few year, Seattle quartet somesurprises have scored a deal with New York's well-respected Drawi
  
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• Alaska Native activist alleges assault by Wasilla mayor

  11-07-2019 21:43
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Native activist says she was assaulted by the mayor of a small town as protesters took over a seating area intended for lawmakers during a contentious session of the Alaska Legislature that’s taking place in two cities. Haliehana (hay-lee-hah-nah) Stepetin filed a citizen’s complaint with Wasilla police Thursday. Stepetin […]
  
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• Condor chick confirmed at Zion National Park in Utah

  11-07-2019 21:31
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sweeping red-rock cliff at Utah’s Zion National Park is now the home of a new California condor chick as the species makes a comeback in the wild three decades after they were on the brink of extinction, biologists have confirmed. The chick is believed to have hatched in early […]
  
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• He Suggested They Watch Some Porn and She Was a Little Too Enthused For His Comfort

  11-07-2019 21:30
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I could use your help. A few days ago, me and my girlfriend of seven months were in bed together. I suggested we watch porn to try something new. So she puts on her favorite scene. During the scene, she says "I would fuck him" about the male performer. I asked if she really meant that and she said yes. I was shocked. She said she hates him as a person because he's a racist and a rapist but she can separate "the man from the performer." Later on at dinne
  
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• Official’s email tells health plan leaders to ‘burn in hell’

  11-07-2019 21:09
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — An executive with a North Carolina hospital has sent a scathing email to the leaders of the State Health Plan describing them as “sorry SOBs” and telling them to “burn in hell.” News sources report Cone Health assistant director of finance Frank Kauder made the comments in a July 1 email […]
  
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• Aziz Ansari Lets Himself off the Hook in New Standup Special Right Now

  11-07-2019 21:00
  
  by Robert HamMichael Loccisano / Getty Images
  Aziz Ansari isn’t himself when he takes the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for his latest standup special Right Now. At least, he isn’t the Aziz Ansari we saw a year ago, or in his previous comedy hours. Instead of finely tailored fashion, he’s dressed down in a Metallica T-shirt and black jeans. His light dusting of facial hair is gone too.But more than that, he doesn’t act the same. The loose swagger of 2015&rs
  
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• Women’s hunting groups growing in Idaho

  11-07-2019 20:38
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — At the turnoff toward Forest Service road 377, a fluorescent pink sign trimmed in zebra-print tape announced “Women Only Weekend” in 2-inch-tall capital letters. A short drive up the road, more than a dozen women donned hard hats, slung Pulaskis and saws over their shoulders and headed out on the overgrown […]
  
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• Former astronaut helps break flight record over poles

  11-07-2019 20:16
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A former astronaut is back at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after helping to shatter a pair of records for a round-the-world airplane flight over the North and South poles. Terry Virts was part of the team whose 46-hour, 39-minute and 38-second polar circumnavigation flight ended Thursday where it began. They […]
  
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• Premera Blue Cross pays states $10 million over data breach

  11-07-2019 20:10
  SEATTLE (AP) — Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. The settlement , negotiated with the Washington attorney general’s office and filed […]
  
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• Lethal measures off table for controlling wild horse herds

  11-07-2019 20:01
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Trump administration will not pursue lethal measures such as euthanasia or selling horses for slaughter to deal with what officials say is an ecological and fiscal crisis caused by too many wild horses on rangelands in the U.S. West. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director Casey Hammond told the […]
  
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• Democracy Voucher Program Survives Supreme Court Challenge

  11-07-2019 20:00
  
  Democracy forever!by Lester BlackSeattle can keep giving out $100 to its residents to pay for political campaigns! Lester Black
  The Washington state Supreme Court has upheld Seattle's pioneering Democracy Voucher program, allowing the public election financing program to continue operating as it dishes out over $1.2 million in funding to City Council elections so far this year.
  The court ruled in a unanimous opinion published Thursday that the program did not violate the Constitution.
  "The Democ
  
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• AI software beats top poker players in milestone of computing

  11-07-2019 20:00
  Researchers at Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed an artificial intelligence bot called Pluribus that defeated five top players in the popular poker game Texas Hold'em for the first time.
  
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• Washington court: Obesity covered by antidiscrimination law

  11-07-2019 19:33
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — It’s illegal for employers to refuse to hire someone who is obese if they are otherwise qualified for the job, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a 7-2 ruling, the high court said obesity is covered by the Washington Law Against Discrimination, which protects employees with disabilities. “Because obesity qualifies […]
  
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• Eddie Izzard: "Not Even the Extreme Idiots Who Are Running This Country Are Saying 'Let’s Bring Back Human Sacrifice.'”

  11-07-2019 19:29
  
  by Joule ZelmanFierce comedian: Eddie Izzard Amanda Searle
  A confession: In my grumpy, youthful naiveté, I used to view stand-up comedy as the domain of disgruntled heterosexuals who didn’t so much navel-gaze as fixate exclusively on their own pelvic regions. Then I discovered Eddie Izzard, who riffs on fruit and animals and languages. He (or she—Izzard uses both pronouns) can ricochet from the English Civil War to Jesus’s drinking habits to apps to Sean Connery in under
  
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• Hospital fires 23 workers in case of excessive doses, deaths

  11-07-2019 19:20
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio hospital system where excessive painkiller doses were given to dozens of patients who died fired 23 more employees Thursday and said it is changing leadership, a sign that professional fallout from the scandal has expanded far beyond the intensive care doctor accused of ordering the drugs. The announcement by […]
  
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• Idaho Supreme Court: Vehicle registration rule is too vague

  11-07-2019 19:08
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has overturned a woman’s felony drug conviction because the law the police officer used to make the traffic stop that led to her arrest is unconstitutionally vague. The Idaho Press reports that Samantha Nicole Cook was pulled over after a Kootenai County sheriff’s deputy saw her vehicle […]
  
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• Reckitt Benckiser pays $1.4 billion in opioid settlement

  11-07-2019 17:58
  LONDON (AP) — Consumer products company Reckitt Benckiser says it will pay $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. investigations into the marketing of an anti-addiction drug by a subsidiary. The company said Thursday it reached agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. The government alleged that an ex-Reckitt subsidiary sought to […]
  
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• Former legislator sues over location of special session

  11-07-2019 17:49
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A former state representative has sued leaders of the Alaska House and Senate, claiming they violated state law by meeting in Juneau, the state capital, instead of Wasilla. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Al Vezey (VEE-zee) sued Wednesday. He claims that House Speaker Bryce Edgmon and Senate President Cathy Giessel (GEE-sel) […]
  
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• Washington state Supreme Court unanimously upholds Seattle’s pioneering ‘democracy vouchers’

  11-07-2019 17:43
  "The Democracy Voucher Program does not alter, abridge, restrict, censor, or burden speech … Thus, the program does not violate First Amendment rights," Justice Steven Gonzalez wrote.
  
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• Renowned forensic scientist’s testimony comes under question

  11-07-2019 17:35
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Forensic scientist Henry Lee, who became famous for his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial and his work on other high-profile murder cases, defended his reputation Thursday after lawyers this week again questioned the accuracy of blood-evidence testimony he gave decades ago. Wendall Hasan has been in prison since 1986 for […]
  
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• Decades-old blood evidence testimony comes under question

  11-07-2019 17:35
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Renowned forensic scientist Henry Lee is defending work he did three decades ago. The Connecticut Supreme Court criticized Lee last month when it overturned the convictions of two men for a 1985 murder. The decision came after experts determined that stains on a towel that Lee had testified were consistent […]
  
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• Skopje zoo’s chimp returns after recovering from depression

  11-07-2019 17:32
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Koko the chimpanzee, once a star in Skopje’s zoo, has returned home after spending 10 years in the Netherlands recovering from depression, the zoo says. Koko was reunited with his keeper, Dragan Trajkovski, on Thursday, who said he was overjoyed to see the chimp again. “It was a joy I […]
  
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• Teen sentenced to 6 years for robbery attempt

  11-07-2019 17:29
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A 17-year-old was sentenced to six years in a youth facility for firing a gun at a car during a robbery attempt. Two teens were inside, but not injured. The Statesman Journal reports that Stefone Querns, of Salem, Oegon, was charged as an adult and sentenced by Judge Tracy Prall Wednesday […]
  
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• Slog AM: Amazon Will Teach Warehouse Workers to Code, ICE Is Prepping for Mass Immigration Raids, Hackable Hair Straighteners

  11-07-2019 17:00
  
  by Nathalie GrahamIf Russia can hack our elections, what's stopping them from hacking our hair tools???macniak/Getty Images
  Trump wants to build a mine on a salmon nursery: The spot in Alaska's Bristol Bay is ripe with gold, silver, copper, and this one I'm having a real hard time spelling (molybdenum — copied and pasted it!). The only problem is that it's where sockeye salmon spawn. They lay their eggs there, and the young salmon stick around in the bay for years before they're ready to g
  
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• Prosecutors go to court in support of drug injection site

  11-07-2019 16:43
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 60 prosecutors and other law enforcement officials have filed a court brief in support of a proposed supervised drug injection site that Philadelphia’s top federal prosecutor is trying to block from opening. The officials say that Safehouse’s proposed injection site would prevent overdose deaths and help reduce the burden on […]
  
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• Southern Oregon commissioners say pipeline too risky

  11-07-2019 16:35
  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A Southern Oregon county board is telling the federal government that a proposed natural gas pipeline violates environmental laws and would provide only short-term economic benefits for the area. The Mail Tribune reports Jackson County Commissioners Rick Dyer, Colleen Roberts and Bob Strosser said they unanimously oppose the project in a […]
  
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• Idaho boy charged in shooting death of 10-year-old girl

  11-07-2019 16:23
  MONTPELIER, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say an Idaho boy has been charged with a felony in the deadly shooting of a 10-year-old girl. The Idaho State Journal reports the Bear Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday the involuntary manslaughter charge in the death last month of Ariel May Gerstlauer. Authorities say the Blackfoot third grader […]
  
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• Clouds and showers to linger into next week, but fire danger remains

  11-07-2019 16:06
  People in the Puget Sound have been using the word “muggy” a lot over the past couple of days to describe the balmy, humid feeling that’s generally foreign to us, according to a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle. That’s because — though high temperatures are fairly typical for this time of year […]
  
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• Segregated schools, education for the incarcerated, elementary curriculum: What Education Lab is reading this week

  11-07-2019 16:00
  We haven’t stopped marveling at the U.S. women’s national soccer team and their World Cup victory. You probably haven’t either, but eventually, you will stop and realize we’re in the slowest period of the year for most sports now. So what better time to pay attention to something else, like the best education stories of […]
  
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• White House yanks drug ‘rebate’ plan to ease costs for some

  11-07-2019 15:57
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is withdrawing a plan to ease the financial bite of costly medications for people on Medicare by letting them receive rebates that drugmakers now pay to insurers and middlemen, the White House said Thursday. The once-highly promoted plan from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar ran into opposition […]
  
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• Setbacks for Trump’s drive to lower prescription drug costs

  11-07-2019 15:57
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After two setbacks this week, President Donald Trump is now focusing his drive to curb drug costs on congressional efforts aimed at helping people on Medicare and younger generations covered by workplace plans. The White House on Thursday yanked its own regulation to ease the financial bite of costly medications for those […]
  
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• Man who threw girlfriend across room, killing her, sentenced

  11-07-2019 15:20
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Gresham man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing his girlfriend, after he admitted to throwing her face-first into his bedroom floor, then waiting nearly 18 hours before bringing her to a hospital. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Jose Funes-Zelaya originally offered various explanations to police about how 29-year-old Shay […]
  
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• Instagram users, obsessed with this turquoise lake, are actually frolicking in toxic waste

  11-07-2019 15:14
  Tucked away in a wooded area just outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk is an amoeba-shaped lake. Accessible via a haphazard network of dirt roads, its grassy shores are lined with clusters of dark green trees. But unlike other nearby bodies of water, this one stands out — its water is a beguiling shade of […]
  
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• Washington DNR chief Hilary Franz has put firefighting front and center; she’s also eyeing a run for governor

  11-07-2019 15:00
  Franz, who is considering a run for governor, is praised for her willingness to listen to local concerns and for the energy she's brought to fire prevention and rural economic development.
  
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• Trump administration pushes for new look at proposed Alaska mine near sockeye spawning grounds

  11-07-2019 15:00
  In Alaska’s Bristol Bay, North America’s biggest wild salmon harvest is in full swing, a bonanza of gill-netted sockeye that comes amid renewed concerns about a proposed open-pit mine that fishermen fear would imperil this resource. “It’s impossible to push out of my mind. It’s the most important issue we face,” said David Harsila, a Bristol Bay […]
  
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• In the mood for a space adventure? Here are some space-themed things to do in Seattle.

  11-07-2019 15:00
  Experience zero gravity for a pretty penny. Party with the Museum of Flight. If you're in the mood to indulge your inner space nerd, here are some fun, space-themed things to do in and around Seattle this summer.
  
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• Amazon, seeking more skilled workers, will do the training

  11-07-2019 14:10
  SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon will provide technical training to about one-third of its U.S. workforce, both to address the need for more skilled workers and to better compete against rivals. Amazon and other companies have struggled to find technically qualified U.S. employees. It said Thursday that it will begin providing its workers with the skills […]
  
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• Maryland sues provider of services to disabled students

  11-07-2019 12:54
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The state of Maryland is accusing the operator of group homes for developmentally disabled students of failing to give children their medication hundreds of times. State Attorney General Brian Frosh’s lawsuit also says Delaware-based AdvoServ Inc. often did not provide adequate supervision. Frosh’s office filed the suit on Wednesday against the company, […]
  
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• Germany’s Merkel sits for anthems after shaking episodes

  11-07-2019 12:42
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the visiting Danish prime minister have sat through their countries’ national anthems at a ceremony in Berlin, a day after the latest of three incidents in which Merkel’s body shook as she stood at a similar event. Merkel showed no signs of ill-health as she sat alongside […]
  
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• Shortening trainee doctor hours hasn’t harmed patients

  11-07-2019 11:01
  When reforms shortened working hours for U.S. doctors-in-training, some worried: Was that enough time to learn the art of medicine? Would future patients suffer? Now a study has answers, finding no difference in hospital deaths, readmissions or costs when comparing results from doctors trained before and after caps limiting duties to 80 hours per week […]
  
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• Small leak found from nuclear Soviet sub that sank in 1989

  11-07-2019 10:40
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A small radiation leak from a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank 30 years ago has been found, Norwegian researchers said Thursday, but it poses no risk to people or fish. Hilde Elise Heldal of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research said that levels “weren’t alarmingly high.” The institute said that findings […]
  
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