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How major US stock market indexes fared on Friday A solid pickup in hiring last month helped push the stock market to record highs Friday. The gains were driven by energy, technology and industrial companies.

What happens when one of Seattle’s best hop-forward breweries collaborates with one of the best lager brewers in the country? The post Chuckanut and Cloudburst collaborate – Nutburst gets tapped this weekend appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

The inflammation and cancer drug maker was one of several biotech drug companies that skidded Friday. Energy companies traded higher as the price of oil bounced back from some steep losses. The engineering, construction and operations company posted a weak profit and cut its earnings forecast.

Although it's a struggle, we dug deep to find a few "affordable" listings in the city's crazed housing market. These homes are listed from $329,999 to $439,000.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to gut the office of the White House "drug czar" according to a preliminary budget document and an email message that its acting director has circulated to agency staff. The eliminations involve the high-intensity drug-trafficking area program, which just received — under a catchall government-wide spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday — $254 million for grants to help states and localities to fight drug trafficking, and the $100 million drug-free communities program... Читать дальше...

Seattle Beer Week kicked off last night and runs for the next ten days. Dozens of events across the The post Seattle has the most breweries of any city in the USA appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

Pregnancy, sexual assault and domestic violence could be considered "pre-existing conditions" that make it hard to keep insurance coverage under the Republican health care bill, according to a number of news articles and social media posts. [...] the bill does allow insurers, in limited circumstances, to charge more for a health condition that existed before the patient's coverage starts if that person has had a lapse in insurance. [...] there might be the potential in some states for a pregnant woman to be charged more for coverage. Читать дальше...

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. The Fed decided this week to leave interest rates unchanged but signaled that it expects economic growth and hiring to be strong enough to justify rate hikes later this year.

McConnell has remained characteristically quiet about the details of a Senate health care proposal as the House has worked through the process. Another member of GOP leadership, South Dakota Sen. John Thune has worked on language that would redirect some of the tax credits in the House bill to better help low-income and elderly people. Two other Republican leaders, No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, are joining McConnell and Thune in the working group. Though they have occasionally broken with him on policy ... Читать дальше...

In a speech at Brown University, Yellen cited a recent study that showed that boosting the participation rate of women in the workforce to the same level of men could raise overall U.S. economic output by 5 percent. "While some married women choose not to work, the size of this disparity should lead us to examine the extent to which structural problems such as a lack of equal opportunity and challenges to combining work and family are holding back women's advancement," she said. President Donald Trump... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The estranged wife of a Silicon Valley CEO says his domestic violence plea deal is too lenient and that justice is being thwarted by efforts to ensure he isn't removed from the country. The Associated Press generally does not name victims of abuse but Karen Ewart, a paralegal at the law firm representing Rastogi in her divorce and custody proceedings, said Rastogi has spoken publicly to draw attention to the domestic violence case. In an April 28 memo to the court, District... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone of a gunman in the San Bernardino, California, shootings. Both pieces of information are the subject of a federal lawsuit by The Associated Press and other news organizations that have sued to force the FBI to reveal them. The federal government paid the money as it cut short an extraordinary court fight with Apple Inc.... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — The Justice Department is probing allegations that Uber used phony software to thwart city officials looking at whether the ride-hailing company was following local regulations. Reuters and other news outlets have reported that the investigation is a criminal probe currently before a grand jury. Uber allegedly served up a fake version of its app to make it appear the undercover regulators were summoning a car, only to have the ride canceled. In the audit report, the Portland Bureau... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by seven this week to 877. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 703 rigs sought oil and 173 explored for natural gas this week.

Seattle police have found a little girl who went missing early Friday from a downtown street.

Seattle police are looking for a little girl who went missing Friday from a downtown street corner.

The first "Guardians" film was a surprise blockbuster for many, transforming a little-known band of Marvel superheroes into household names. ComScore figures show the first "Guardians" film earned $93.3 million in its opening weekend.

Combi Shuttle stroller and car seat travel systems are being recalled because connection defect that poses a fall hazard to infants. Combi Shuttle model strollers and car seats, which when used together are called a travel system. The strollers and car seats have model number 6100027 or 6100100 printed on a label on the base of the car seat and stroller's leg. The car seat can disengage from the stroller's frame, posing a fall hazard to infants. All manufacturing dates for all three models... Читать дальше...

The fast food chain's 15-second television ad targeted Google Home, a speaker that can answer questions and control other smart appliances. When an actor in the ad said "OK, Google" and asked a question about the Whopper, Google Home obediently began reading the burger's ingredients in homes around the country — effectively extending the commercial for however long it took someone to shout "OK, Google, stop!" [...] in a January story that briefly turned a family into media celebrities, a woman's... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police are searching for a man who punched and sexually assaulted a German tourist in New York City in a violent robbery caught on video. Surveillance video issued Friday by the New York Police Department shows the man yanking away the woman's bag.

Net fees and commissions grew by 10 percent to 1.85 billion euros thanks to a rebound of assets under management, now at 320 billion euros, offsetting a drop of nearly 3 percent in net interest income to 1.8 billion euros.

NEW YORK (AP) — Warren Buffett says he's sold about a third of the 81 million shares he holds in IBM, sending the stock down sharply in early trading. [...] Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway, which kicks off its annual meeting Saturday, could still buy IBM shares.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government said hiring bounced back in April, something investors had wanted to see, but stocks aren't reacting much Friday morning. IBM is slumping after billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he sold a large part of his stake in the company. IBM GETS BUFFET-TED: IBM fell after Warren Buffett said he's sold about 25 million shares of the technology and consulting company, about a third of the stake that his Berkshire Hathaway company had owned. IBM faces stiff competition... Читать дальше...

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