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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at how the Academy Awards' winners envelopes are handled before being opened live onstage: — The consulting firm PwC, formerly Price Waterhouse Coopers, tabulates the winners based on ballots cast by the academy's 6,687 voting members. — Two accountants are tasked with bringing the final results, inside sealed envelopes, to the Oscars ceremony.

The best way to start your day here is with breakfast at Pamela's, preferably a crepe-like pancake stuffed with strawberries, brown sugar and sour cream. Besides Primanti's, another old-school sandwich with a twist is found at Max's Allegheny Tavern , a German restaurant in Pittsburgh's Deutschtown neighborhood. The Strip District is lined with ethnic food markets (Asian, Middle Eastern, Mexican) and specialty shops, from La Prima, which serves excellent Italian coffee and pastries, to Penn Mac for cheese. Читать дальше...

Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp. has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge and agreed to pay $1 billion for a scheme to conceal a deadly defect in millions of its air bag inflators. U.S. prosecutors still are seeking extradition of three former Takata executives from Japan to face criminal charges. Attorneys for people suing air bag maker Takata and five automakers say the car companies knew that the company's products were dangerous yet continued to use them for years because they were inexpensive.

DETROIT (AP) — Takata pleads guilty to fraud in air bag scandal that has killed at least 16.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While the whole of Oscar night was eclipsed by the unprecedented best-picture flub at the show's conclusion, the Academy Awards is a starry celebration onscreen and off. For every memorable moment during the telecast, countless others occur away from the camera's eye in the wings of the Dolby Theatre stage. Jimmy Kimmel's team of writers and producers did the same "Best show ever!" chant before the Oscars that they do before each taping of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" After the show... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Monday that the nation's health care system was in danger of imploding and said Congress must make fundamental changes to the sweeping health law passed by his predecessor. The Affordable Care Act has subsidized private health insurance available in all 50 states while an optional Medicaid expansion has been accepted by 31 states and the District of Columbia. A report by the consulting firms Avalere Health and McKinsey & Company presented to the... Читать дальше...

A rollover crash shut down traffic in both Interstate 5 and Interstate 90 in downtown Seattle Monday morning.

The actual winner was "Moonlight," drawing a giggle from Gosling, who was on stage with the "La La Land" cast when the real winner was announced. Memes using the Oscar winner envelope held up by "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz were edited to instead show titles of films that have garnered little attention from the Academy, including "Ernest Goes to Camp" and "Space Jam." Other memes showed the popular vote totals for the recent U.S. presidential election, with Clinton tallying more ballots than President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T's $85 billion purchase of Time Warner may be getting an easier path to approval after the chief telecommunications regulator says it isn't likely to review the deal. Last week, magazine publisher and TV station owner Meredith announced plans buy Time Warner's lone TV station for $70 million.

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog.   The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexican border to the Canadian The post Crux Fermentation Project introduces a beer to benefit the Pacific Crest Trail appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

Here's a glimpse of some of the gadgets and apps displayed by start-up companies this week at the fair, the world's largest for wireless technology. Israeli startup Living Box offers a modular, unfoldable, solar-powered little greenhouse that you can use to harvest anything from tomatoes to tea and herbs. The hang, a metal percussion instrument shaped like a flying saucer, is beloved of street performers the world round and often associated with meditation practices like yoga. Musicians Ravid Goldschmidt and Alex Posada... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears likely to strike down a North Carolina law that prohibits sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites. The state's lawyer said the law deals with the virtual world in the same way that states keep sex offenders out of playgrounds and other places children visit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses boosted their orders for long-lasting manufactured goods in January by the largest amount in three months, but a key category that tracks business investment plans slipped. "The manufacturing sector and capital spending are recovering quite strongly as the hit from the collapse in the oil sector ... begins to reverse," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said that the strength... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The predicted peak blooming period for this year's cherry blossom season in Washington will be announced this week. According to the National Park Service website, however, from 2013 to 2015, peak bloom was around April 10.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — United Airlines is adding daily, nonstop service from Spokane International Airport to San Francisco and Chicago's O'Hare. The services will be offered year-round. United said Monday the new routes will begin on June 8. The twice-daily San Francisco service will be operated with a 76-seat Embraer E-175. The once-daily Chicago flight will be flown on the 150-seat Airbus A-320.

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In a press briefing on Monday, the U.N. health agency said its list is meant to promote the development of medicines for the most worrying drug-resistant bacteria, including salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus. The agency said the dozen listed resistant bacteria are increasingly untreatable and can cause fatal infections; most typically strike people with weakened immune systems. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 23,000 people die each year in the U.S. from infections caused by resistant bacteria.

In the court filing, plaintiffs lawyers allege that the automakers were "far from innocent" in the case, and that they had independent knowledge that Takata's air bag inflators were unsafe before putting them in millions of vehicles. The automotive defendants were aware that rupture after rupture, both during testing and in the field, confirmed how dangerous and defective Takata's air bags were," the attorneys allege in the court document, called a "status report. After an inflator ruptured in 2009... Читать дальше...

Oil companies led the gainers as the price of crude rose. Consumer staples sector stocks were among the biggest decliners in the S&P 500 as several supermarket operators declined. Power company AES fell 3.6 percent after its full-year profit forecast disappointed investors. Tegna climbed 5.5 percent after the media company's latest earnings beat Wall Street's estimates. The Commerce Department said U.S. businesses boosted their orders for long-lasting manufactured goods in January by 1.8 percent, the largest amount in three months. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans signed contracts to purchase homes last month as rising prices, higher mortgage rates and a dwindling supply of available homes appeared to frustrate many potential buyers, especially in the West. [...] with hiring solid and the stock market at record highs, Americans are confident in the economy and are more interested in buying a home than at any time since the Great Recession, the NAR said. The price of a typical home jumped by more than double the pace of wage gains in January from a year earlier... Читать дальше...

The company has apologized for a colossal mistake at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night when actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty wrongly announced the top Oscar went to "La La Land," instead of "Moonlight." According to Nigel Currie, an independent London-based branding specialist with decades' worth of industry experience, this mistake is "as bad a mess-up as you could imagine." History is littered by examples when a hard-won reputation nosedives — from sporting legends Tiger Woods and... Читать дальше...

Cash can help you survive an emergency, but saving as much as financial planners typically recommend — three to six months' worth of expenses — can take years. A well-stocked pantry can help you survive a natural disaster or extended blackout, get through a stretch of unemployment, ensure you always have something tasty for dinner, and save you money, if done correctly. Some foods you can find at the supermarket have long shelf lives, such as rice, dried beans and canned foods. Others such as eggs... Читать дальше...

Seattleites woke up to snow Monday morning, but more may be on the way.