Новости за 27.11.2017

This could be the most important week in fantasy football. In most leagues, Week 13 is the last week before the playoffs begin. It's right now when fantasy players must take full stock of their roster, especially if this happens to be the last week in which players can be claimed from waivers. If you mostly start the same players week in and week out, then having 2-3 backups at each position isn't important. What is important is claiming the obvious backups to your studs. Pittsburgh running back James Conner is a must for Le'Veon Bell owners. Читать дальше...

Seattle Mayor-elect Jenny Durkan is going out to five separate Seattle neighborhoods to take her oath of office. Each will see the first woman to serve as Seattle Mayor in nearly a century.

Police officers responded to a Seattle home Friday after a little girl found the snake in the family apartment's toilet. And, before you get any ideas, know that the police already made all the "Snakes on a Plane" jokes.

NEW YORK (AP) — Weeks of deals didn't stop people from heading online to shop on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday is on track to becoming the biggest U.S. online shopping day ever, according to Adobe Analytics, the research arm of software maker Adobe. By 10 a.m. Eastern time, $840 million had been spent online, up nearly 17 percent from a year ago, Adobe said. And more people are picking up their phones to shop: Web traffic from mobile devices, including tablets, is expected to top desktop computers for the first time this year... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is turning to artificial intelligence to detect if someone might be contemplating suicide. Facebook already has mechanisms for flagging posts from people thinking about harming themselves. The new feature is intended to detect such posts before anyone reports them. The service will scan posts and live video with a technique called "pattern recognition." For example, comments from friends such as "are you ok?" can indicate suicidal thoughts. Facebook has already been testing... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ballerinas leaping to the strains of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" helped launch Christmas at the White House, featuring a traditional decor that Melania Trump chose for her family's first holiday season in the White House. The first lady's theme is "Time-Honored Traditions," a nod to 200 years of holiday celebrations at the executive mansion. "The decorations are up!" Mrs. Trump tweeted Monday morning. "@WhiteHouse is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas & joyous... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell's confirmation to be chairman of the Federal Reserve is considered all but certain. Yet when a Senate committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Powell's nomination, one question will hover above the discussions: Will Jerome Powell be Janet Yellen by another name — or a different kind of Fed leader? Yellen will leave the Fed in February after four years as chair, a period characterized by a cautious stance toward interest rate hikes, relative transparency about the Fed's... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Chinese nationals are accused of operating a cybersecurity firm that used phishing scams and malware to steal data from international corporations. A federal indictment unsealed Monday in Pittsburgh says the trio's targets included Siemens AG, Moody's Analytics in New York and Trimble Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. The indictment says they ran a company called Boyusec offering cybersecurity services to Chinese businesses. The men are accused of sending phony emails that look... Читать дальше...

Two teens turned themselves in after a 20-year-old man was fatally shot in Kent early Sunday morning during a marijuana transaction gone awry, according to Kent police.

Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett on San Francico's Levi's Stadium: "I looked online you could've gotten a ticket for $17. You can't even get a ticket for $17 to my house..."

WASHINGTON (AP) — With emails, tweets and doughnuts, the two dueling acting directors battled for control of the nation's top financial watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on Monday. Leandra English, who was elevated to interim director of the bureau late last week by its outgoing director, sent staff an email offering Thanksgiving wishes. President Donald Trump's choice for the role — White House budget director Mick Mulvaney — then emailed staff to tell them to "disregard" any instructions from English. Читать дальше...

Quarterback Russell Wilson -- who this season has almost single-handedly carried the Seahawks offense through the air and on the ground -- and middle linebacker Bobby Wagner -- on track for his third first-team All-Pro season in four years -- will need to be big for Seattle to make up ground in the playoff race over the next month. Both Wilson and Wagner earned kudos from the national media after their performances against San Francisco on Sunday.

Despite huge injuries and a complete lack of a running game, Seattle sits at 7-4 and right in the thick of the playoff hunt. Michael-Shawn Dugar and Christopher Kidd explain that the 12th Man needs to C-H-I-L-L with their expectations on this team.

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks will be without strong safety Kam Chancellor for the rest of the season due to a neck injury he suffered earlier this month, coach Pete Carroll said Monday. Carroll announced the news during his weekly radio show on KIRO-AM. Chancellor was hurt late in Seattle's victory over Arizona on Nov. 9 while making a tackle. Carroll was unclear about Chancellor returning in the future. "It's really up to him," Carroll said. Chancellor has spent his entire career with Seattle, becoming a starter in 2011. Читать дальше...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Officials say work on a new passenger terminal at Everett's Paine Field is on track and they expect the first regularly scheduled flight will take off as early as next fall. The Daily Herald reported Monday that Propeller Airports secured building permits from Snohomish County earlier this month, giving them full authority to build the two-gate passenger terminal at the Everett airport. CEO Brett Smith says they expect the construction will be finished by mid-July and planes... Читать дальше...

A slide in crude oil prices weighed on energy companies, pulling U.S. stock indexes mostly lower in afternoon trading Monday. Technology stocks also fell. Utilities rose, while retailers posted solid gains on reports the holiday shopping season is off to a strong start. Several companies were also moving on deal news. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down less than 1 point to 2,601 as of 1 p.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 30 points, or 0.1 percent, to 23,588. Читать дальше...

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks will be without strong safety Kam Chancellor for the rest of the season due to a neck injury suffered earlier this month. Coach Pete Carroll announced the news during his weekly radio show on KIRO-AM on Monday. Chancellor was hurt late in Seattle's victory over Arizona on Nov. 9 while making a tackle. Carroll was unclear about Chancellor returning in the future, saying the decision was up to the safety. Chancellor has spent his entire career with Seattle, becoming a starter in 2011. Читать дальше...

Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril will have "disc-related" surgery and safety Kam Chancellor is done for the year.

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. U.S. stock indexes edged mostly lower in midday trading as traders returned from the Thanksgiving holiday. Energy stocks were the biggest laggard Monday as crude oil prices headed lower. Devon Energy slumped 3 percent. Technology stocks also fell. Micron Technology gave up 4.5 percent. Retailers posted solid gains on reports the holiday shopping season is off to a strong start. Time Inc. rose 9 percent after agreeing to be acquired by Meredith... Читать дальше...

The estate tax affects a very small — and very wealthy — number of Americans. Only the estates of about 2 out of every 1,000 Americans who die face this tax right now. Easing or repealing the tax — currently under consideration in Washington — would lower federal revenue and potentially generate a windfall for some ultra-wealthy families. The estate tax accounts for around 1 percent of the federal government's total revenue. And it symbolizes a major issue at the heart of the tax overhaul debate... Читать дальше...

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) — Each year when the sizzling temperatures finally dipped in the southern Arizona desert, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a small band of young apprentices would start the annual cross-country migration from Spring Green, Wisconsin, just in time to escape the Midwestern snow. Twenty-six miles northeast of Phoenix, Wright's students built the desert shelters they slept in during the winter term at his School of Architecture, where bobcats, coyotes, and pig-like mammals called... Читать дальше...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — An off-duty Richmond police officer shot and killed a teenage boy after the boy allegedly pulled out a gun during the sale of an Xbox, police said. The shooting occurred about 12:30 a.m. Monday in the parking lot of a shopping center in Chesterfield County, a suburb near Richmond. Chesterfield police Major Frank Carpenter said the off-duty officer was an associate of a man who had agreed to sell the electronic gaming system to the teenager in the parking lot of the Chestertowne Shopping Center. Читать дальше...

By Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog   For Seattle beer lovers, this has become something of a holiday tradition. The annual tree lighting at Naked City For the latest news and information about beer in and around Washington, visit Washington Beer Blog.

U.S. stock indexes edged mostly lower in morning trading Monday as traders returned from the Thanksgiving holiday. Energy stocks were the biggest laggard as crude oil prices headed lower. Technology stocks also fell. Retailers posted solid gains on reports the holiday shopping season is off to a strong start. Several companies were also moving on deal news. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1 point, or 0.1 percent, to 2,600 as of 11:27 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 25 points... Читать дальше...

A spate of recent public revelations, including the spontaneous #metoo discussions on social media, is emboldening many victims of sexual harassment to speak up, but many still remain silent. Up to 85 percent of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace and many men as well according to a report released in 2016 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Common responses to harassment include: avoiding the harasser, downplaying the gravity of the situation or attempting to ignore or endure the behavior. Читать дальше...