Новости за 25.07.2018

Readers rant about neighbor's yard, rave about putting out I-90 brush fire

Seafair Torchlight Parade takes place July 28, Seattle; three local arts festivals, July 27-29, Bellevue.

Some titles available for home viewing and streaming starting Sunday, July 29.

Membership library Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum moved to the Pike Place Market earlier this month. And The Neverending Bookshop in Bothell will be moving to the Perrinville Town Center, located between Lynnwood and Edmonds.

This is an absorbing character study of Moe Berg, a one-time Boston Red Sox catcher who was sent by the U.S. government to assassinate a top German scientist working on Hitler’s secret atom-bomb project. It's true. It happened. Rating: 3 stars out of 4.

A recent poll declaring Dick’s the city’s best burger divided us into two camps: Those who love it, and those who cannot even begin to understand the appeal. Our homegrown food writer explains.

She wished him a happy birthday on social media. He thinks that mentioning it was his 50th doomed his prospects.

In “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back,” the chef and TV personality stops by a restaurant for people and dogs; Katie races to save refugees outside the walls in the season finale of “Colony.”

The former prosecutor is locked in a contest with rival Democrats Kim Schrier and Shannon Hader to squeeze past the top-two Aug. 7 primary and take on presumptive Republican standard-bearer Dino Rossi this fall.

Our rapidly fracturing national media ecosystem gave very different treatments to two local stories of hate this past week. The fair-minded way one victim dealt with it all is a beacon of hope.

Seattle police have joined law-enforcement agencies from around the country in the latest installment of a lip-sync battle. Seattle Mariners superstar Felix Hernandez and Mayor Jenny Durkan make cameos.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice says that EU member states may consider possible shortcomings with the rule of law in Poland to be grounds for denying extradition requests from Warsaw. The European Union’s top court said Wednesday that the legal fight between the European Commission and Warsaw over recent controversial judicial reforms […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief says he is “utterly appalled” by a recent video appearing to show Cameroonian soldiers shooting to death women carrying small children as suspected Boko Haram extremists. Wednesday’s statement by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein says “I am deeply worried that these killings captured on camera may not […]

Three women accused Mariners executives of inappropriate workplace conduct in 2009-10, a Seattle Times investigation found. And in 2015, camera operators at Safeco Field shot up-close video of two female fans, with the footage compiled in a folder labeled “9-29-15 Blondes.”

MIAMI (AP) — Fire rescue officials say around 40 golf carts were destroyed in a fire at the Miami golf course where David Beckham wants to build a soccer stadium. Capt. Ignatius Carroll tells the Miami Herald that crews found a “large body of fire” near the golf clubhouse at Melreese Country Club on Tuesday […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says there’s no need to respond to President Donald Trump’s “empty threats.” Rouhani’s remarks Wednesday were his first since Trump warned the Iranian leader of dire consequences for threatening the United States. Rouhani told his Cabinet that there are “baseless comments and empty threats” by “some U.S. […]

A fielding error by Dee Gordon in the top of the ninth allowed the game-winning run to score.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmaker who exposed himself, yelled racial slurs on TV will resign, says House Speaker Ralston’s spokesman.

Breanna Stewart had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Storm to a 92-72 victory at Indianapolis. The Storm (19-7) improved to 9-3 in road games.

The Round Rock Express got solid pitching from Michael Roth to earn a 7-2 victory Tuesday night over the visiting Tacoma Rainiers in a Pacific Coast League game. In six innings, Roth (6-5) limited the Rainiers to two runs on seven hits. Christian Bergman (6-8) took the loss after he was tagged for seven runs […]

LYNDHURST, Ohio (AP) — A woman who thought her father’s ashes were interred in his crypt in Ohio 25 years ago has learned that they were at a funeral home instead. Maryann Taraska says someone else’s ashes were in her father Donald Hopeck’s crypt at a Chardon (SHAHR’-dihn) cemetery. Taraska tells WKYC-TV in Cleveland that […]

The U.S. government is seeking input about a draft of a new plan to identify ocean research needs following President Donald Trump’s decision to scrap former President Barack Obama’s ocean policy. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council has developed the plan. It’s called “Science and Technology for […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers are searching for hundreds missing in villages flooded when part of a newly built hydroelectric dam was breached in southeastern Laos. SK Engineering & Construction, one of two South Korean partners in the project, said in a statement late Tuesday that the top of one of five auxiliary earth-fill dams at […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says Malaysia’s new government will adopt a firmer stand in tackling a decades-old territorial row in the South China Sea amid China’s aggressive expansion in the disputed area. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who won a stunning electoral victory in May, has said warships should be removed […]