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• Not a tweet storm, but a real storm coincidentally named Don

  17-07-2017 23:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not a tweet storm but a real storm. The newest potentially dangerous swirl of hot air is a tropical storm in the Atlantic named Don. And it’s a total coincidence that the storm bears a common nickname for the president of the United States. Tropical storms and hurricanes are named several […]
  
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• Interior secretary ponders fate of Nat’l Monument in Oregon

  17-07-2017 22:41
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After touring the “unique” Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon and speaking to ranchers, loggers and environmentalists, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must next make a recommendation on whether it should be abolished or resized. It’s going to require a lot of study, Zinke indicated, given that the monument was created — […]
  
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• Rebuffing union, Mayor Murray orders Seattle police to begin wearing body cameras

  17-07-2017 20:50
  
  The mayor’s executive order comes one month after the absence of video left lingering questions in the fatal police shooting of Charleena Lyles.
  
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• NASA communications satellite damaged 3 weeks before launch

  17-07-2017 20:18
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest, slickest communications satellite has been damaged, just three weeks before its planned August launch. NASA said Monday that one of the antennas on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-M, was damaged on  Friday. The accident occurred inside a payload processing building near Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the […]
  
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• Murray says he won’t resign despite council member’s urging

  17-07-2017 18:48
  
  City Councilmember M. Lorena González said she’s asked Seattle Mayor Ed Murray to consider stepping down in light of new information about sexual-abuse allegations.
  
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• Council member asks Seattle mayor Ed Murray to consider resigning

  17-07-2017 18:48
  
  City Councilmember M. Lorena González said she’s asked Seattle Mayor Ed Murray to consider stepping down in light of new information about sexual-abuse allegations.
  
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• ‘Rainless in Seattle’: Could we break a record?

  17-07-2017 17:51
  
  It's been 30 days since measurable rain was felt in Seattle. Another week, and we might need to break out the record book.
  
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• Afghan girls robotics team competes after visa obstacles

  17-07-2017 17:12
  
  WASHINGTON — A robotics team of six girls from Afghanistan is taking part in an international competition in Washington, after clearing visa obstacles that prompted intervention from President Donald Trump. The team’s ball-sorting robot played in its first game on Monday morning. The team is competing against teams from more than 150 countries in the […]
  
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• Seattle mayoral candidates call for Ed Murray to resign following new sexual-abuse revelations

  17-07-2017 16:45
  
  Candidates Mike McGinn, Jessyn Farrell and Cary Moon are calling for Murray to resign after The Times revealed that an Oregon child-welfare investigator concluded in 1984 Murray sexually abused Jeff Simpson when he was a teenager.
  
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• Seattle mayoral candidates call for Ed Murray to resign following new revelations in sex-abuse case

  17-07-2017 16:45
  
  Candidates Mike McGinn, Jessyn Farrell and Cary Moon are calling for Murray to resign after The Times revealed that an Oregon child-welfare investigator concluded in 1984 Murray sexually abused Jeff Simpson when he was a teenager.
  
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• Man dies in fall from BMW on I-405 in Kirkland, trooper says

  17-07-2017 16:09
  
  The young man was hanging out of the car when he fell, said Trooper Rick Johnson, citing witnesses.
  
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• Man dies after fall from BMW sunroof on I-405 in Kirkland, trooper says

  17-07-2017 16:09
  
  The young man was standing up or hanging out of the car's sunroof when he fell, said Trooper Rick Johnson, citing witnesses.
  
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• ‘People are dying’: NW aid groups World Vision, Mercy Corps join new effort to call attention to Africa famine

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  The famine threat in Africa is growing. With more than 20 million people at risk, U.S. aid groups, such as Federal Way-based World Vision and Portland-based Mercy Corps, are joining efforts to try to raise awareness
  
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• NW aid groups World Vision, Mercy Corps join new effort to ease Africa famine

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  The famine threat in Africa is growing. With more than 20 million people at risk, U.S. aid groups, such as Federal Way-based World Vision and Portland-based Mercy Corps, are joining efforts to try to raise awareness
  
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• Mayoral candidate Jessyn Farrell says record shows she’d keep Seattle’s progressive train moving

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  Jessyn Farrell, a rising star among Democrats in Olympia, aborts lawmaking career for shot at Seattle mayor. Friends and foes say the transit wonk “disagrees without being disagreeable.”
  
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• India Premier League cricket coach preaches teamwork at Redmond summer camp

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  Despite the similarities between the two major sports, there’s no “grand salami time” in cricket, only in baseball. In cricket there’s a “sticky wicket,” likely the biggest crossover term from the second-most-popular sport in the world, after soccer, estimated to have more than 2 billion fans. At least a dozen channels broadcast matches in India. […]
  
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• Do pedestrian push-to-walk buttons do anything? Here’s the answer

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  Spoiler: Incessant tapping won’t make a walk sign appear any faster.
  
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• Bike shares wheeling back into Seattle, but they’re unlike Pronto in 2 big ways

  17-07-2017 15:00
  
  Two private bike-share companies are waiting on approval to drop 1,000 shareable bikes on city streets. The bikes have no docking stations and aren’t getting any public funding.
  
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• Seattle kids to discover environmental decision-making, one garden at a time

  17-07-2017 14:00
  
  The National Science Foundation just awarded a $2.9 million grant to a project that would get Seattle students ages 5-9 thinking about complex issues like food security. How? School gardens.
  
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• Diverse group of candidates competing for District 5 seat on Seattle School Board

  17-07-2017 14:00
  
  There’s no front-runner in the race to replace Stephan Blanford, who decided against running for re-election.
  
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• Diverse group of candidates compete for District 5 seat on Seattle School Board

  17-07-2017 14:00
  
  There’s no front-runner in the race to replace Stephan Blanford, who decided against running for re-election.
  
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• California lawmakers to decide fate of landmark climate law

  17-07-2017 09:41
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are nearing a high-stakes decision that will decide the fate of a climate initiative that Gov. Jerry Brown holds up as a model to be replicated around the world to confront rising global temperatures. The vote Monday on whether to give another decade of life to California’s cap-and-trade program […]
  
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• California climate law touted as global model faces key test

  17-07-2017 09:41
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are nearing a high-stakes decision that will decide the fate of a climate initiative that Gov. Jerry Brown holds up as a model to be replicated around the world to confront rising global temperatures. The vote Monday on whether to give another decade of life to California’s cap-and-trade program […]
  
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• Deschutes Falls Park ‘a hidden gem again’

  17-07-2017 04:46
  
  The 155-acre site at 25005 Bald Hill Road, more than 15 miles southeast of Yelm, has been closed to the public since it was purchased by Thurston County about 25 years ago. But in about six weeks, it will reopen as the area’s newest recreational treasure.
  
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• Two kids may have died in Skagit County house fire; two jailed in probe

  17-07-2017 04:42
  
  A deadly house fire in unincorporated Skagit County may have claimed the lives of two children.
  
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• Two kids believed to have died in Skagit County house fire; two jailed in probe

  17-07-2017 04:42
  
  A house fire Saturday in unincorporated Skagit County may have claimed the lives of two children.
  
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• ‘Hamlet’ takes to the trees

  17-07-2017 03:54
  
  Theater company performs “Hamlet” at Volunteer Park in Seattle, during the 17th annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival.
  
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• Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau dies at 89

  17-07-2017 02:47
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show “Mission: Impossible,” then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his poignant portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994’s “Ed Wood,” has died. He was 89. […]
  
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• McCain’s blood clot surgery may be more serious than thought, experts say

  17-07-2017 02:01
  
  A statement released by the Arizona senator’s office on Saturday had suggested that he would be in Arizona recovering for just this week, but neurosurgeons interviewed said the typical recovery period could be longer.
  
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• Man who jumped from window dies in Kent police custody

  17-07-2017 01:06
  
  Kent police say a 40-year-old man was intoxicated and acting strangely when he jumped out of a window early Sunday. Officers located him nearby and arrested him, but he soon developed medical complications and died at a hospital, according to police.
  
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• Kent man who jumped from window later died at hospital

  17-07-2017 01:06
  
  Kent police say a 40-year-old man was intoxicated and acting strangely when he jumped out of a window early Sunday. Officers located him nearby and arrested him, but he soon developed medical complications and died at a hospital, according to police.
  
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