Новости за 07.12.2018

For 20 months, photojournalist Barbara Kinney followed Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail, capturing the first-ever female major-party presidential nominee as she walked rope lines and across stages. In a new book, Kinney's images serve as a fascinating visual document of the grueling, day-to-day world of a presidential campaign.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has appointed a special master to weigh ballot questions raised by a Democratic state House candidate. Democrat Kathryn Dodge is challenging the result of a recount that showed her losing by one vote to Republican Bart LeBon in a Fairbanks House race. The Supreme Court appointed Anchorage […]

T-Mobile CEO John Legere's cookbook is a spinoff from the success of his Facebook Live show "Slow Cooker Sunday."

BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of people suspected of living in the country illegally were apprehended in a series of sweeps in New England this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday. Agents arrested 58 people in raids in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut, officials said. The arrests happened over five days ending […]

Sections of Pine Street will be closed and Fifth Avenue is expected to experience heavy traffic as dozens of caroling teams sing on downtown Seattle street corners in and around Westlake Center beginning at 6 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is responding to criticism from his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson by calling Tillerson “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.” During a rare public appearance in Houston on Thursday evening, Tillerson weighed in on his time in the administration. He called Trump “undisciplined” and said the […]

The federal campus safety violations occurred during a moment of chaotic leadership churn for the community college in Auburn.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — An Armenian court on Friday put the nation’s former president in custody on charges linked to a deadly police crackdown on a 2008 protest over alleged voting fraud. Robert Kocharian, 64, spent two weeks in jail last summer on charges of violating the constitutional order by sending police to break up […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Democrat elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives by one vote is demanding that the Republican-controlled legislature seat him when lawmakers convene in January. But incoming Republican House Speaker David Osborne would not commit to seating Jim Glenn when lawmakers return to Frankfort, setting up a potential clash in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US officials say Trump to nominate Army chief Gen. Mark Milley as next chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Prosecutors in St. Petersburg have charged two Russian high school teachers of producing and selling drugs, a case that Russian media have compared to the “Breaking Bad” television series. The prosecutors in Russia’s second-largest city have accused a chemistry teacher of setting up an underground lab to produce amphetamine. They […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man accused of strangling a model in one of Philadelphia’s affluent suburbs has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Jonathan Harris appeared in a Montgomery County courtroom on Friday over the August killing of Christina Carlin-Kraft. The Pottstown Mercury newspaper reports prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty. Officials have said Carlin-Kraft […]

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) — It wasn’t the Grinch who stole Christmas. It was a man who screamed “there’s no Santa Claus” over and over during a recent holiday festival in Florida. A southwest Florida woman shared cellphone footage with Fort Myers television station NBC-2 of the man yelling during the Cape Coral Festival of […]

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — An employee of a Hilcorp Alaska drilling contractor has died at Milne Point on the North Slope. Hilcorp Alaska spokeswoman Lori Nelson says an employee of Kuukpik Corp. was fatally injured at Milne Point early Friday. She said by email that the cause of the incident wasn’t immediately known. She says […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A psychiatrist has found an Idaho mass stabbing suspect unfit to stand trial. Ada County prosecutors said Thursday they will challenge the finding in the case of Timmy Earl Kinner Jr. Kinner is accused of stabbing nine people — including six children — during a birthday party in June. One of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors say Amazon has agreed not to sell foie gras in the state from birds that have been force-fed. State lawmakers banned that form of the fatty duck and goose liver delicacy nearly 15 years ago. Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said Friday a state judge approved a […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some of the largest energy companies in the U.S. have already invested billions of dollars on claims up and down the Texas-New Mexico state line, tapping one of the nation’s richest and most prolific oil and natural gas regions. Now the stakes just got higher, as the U.S. Geological Survey released […]

Kyle Glaser of Baseball America and Eric Longenhagen of Fangraphs discuss the new prospects in the Mariners farm system and where it ranks in baseball

PARIS (AP) — As anti-government protests rage through France and Paris locks down, fearing new riots, the man whose presidency has unleashed the anger is nowhere to be seen. French President Emmanuel Macron has stayed out of the public eye all week, leaving his unpopular government to try to calm the nation. In response, “Macron, […]

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge is barring a sheriff’s department from continuing to jail people suspected of being in the country illegally on behalf of federal authorities, saying that the practice violates their constitutional rights. District Court Judge Eric Bentley ruled late Thursday that El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder has no authority to […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishermen who seek one of the most important bait fish on the East Coast are likely to see a dramatic reduction next year in the amount they are allowed to harvest, and the change could have major implications for lobster consumers. The commercial fishery for herring is a major industry in […]

During an argument with his wife in an Uber, Cameron Espitia pulled out a handgun and shot Jennifer Morrison Espitia in the back of the head in July 2017. He was arrested a short time later. Espitia pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in October and was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison.

In every culture, there are unspoken phenomena that sometimes just can’t be described. For a Seattleite living in Seoul, Korea, there were the ajummas.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities planned Friday to announce what they call a “significant development” in their investigation of last month’s shooting that killed 12 people at a popular Southern California country music bar. The development was to be announced at a news conference at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Station in Thousand Oaks, Detective […]

This Iranian expat is indebted to George Herbert Walker Bush, who believed in the value of immigrants from all over the world to contribute to the fabric of this incredible nation.