https://www.seattletimes.com Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:30:30 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stock-market-today-asian-stocks-mixed-ahead-of-us-inflation-data/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stock-market-today-asian-stocks-mixed-ahead-of-us-inflation-data/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:27:06 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/stock-market-today-asian-stocks-mixed-ahead-of-us-inflation-data/
Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence the pace of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/mark-zuckerberg-will-cohost-reception-with-republican-billionaires-for-trump-inauguration/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/mark-zuckerberg-will-cohost-reception-with-republican-billionaires-for-trump-inauguration/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:17:52 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-will-cohost-reception-with-republican-billionaires-for-trump-inauguration/
Zuckerberg once seemed a foe of the former president, but lately, he's been endearing himself to Trump.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/as-fires-ravage-los-angeles-tiger-woods-isnt-sure-what-will-happen-with-riviera-tournament/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/as-fires-ravage-los-angeles-tiger-woods-isnt-sure-what-will-happen-with-riviera-tournament/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:40:15 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/as-fires-ravage-los-angeles-tiger-woods-isnt-sure-what-will-happen-with-riviera-tournament/
Tiger Woods isn’t sure what’s going to happen with next month’s Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour event that he hosts in the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/antetokounmpo-gets-50th-career-triple-double-as-bucks-win-130-115-to-end-kings-7-game-win-streak/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/antetokounmpo-gets-50th-career-triple-double-as-bucks-win-130-115-to-end-kings-7-game-win-streak/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:31:23 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/antetokounmpo-gets-50th-career-triple-double-as-bucks-win-130-115-to-end-kings-7-game-win-streak/
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 30 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds for his 50th career triple-double as the Milwaukee Bucks beat Sacramento 130-115 on Tuesday to snap the Kings’ seven-game win streak.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/new-orleans-attacker-had-researched-similar-violent-rampage-and-how-to-access-bourbon-st-balcony/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/new-orleans-attacker-had-researched-similar-violent-rampage-and-how-to-access-bourbon-st-balcony/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:31:09 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/new-orleans-attacker-had-researched-similar-violent-rampage-and-how-to-access-bourbon-st-balcony/
Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar's rampage, the FBI continues to uncover new information detailing the extensive planning by the 42-year-old veteran.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/oregon-set-hospital-comedy-renewed-for-season-2-on-nbc/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/oregon-set-hospital-comedy-renewed-for-season-2-on-nbc/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:15:18 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18093576
“St. Denis Medical” is set at a regional hospital located in the fictional town of Merrick, Ore.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/no-97-laura-siegemund-upsets-olympic-champion-zheng-qinwen-at-the-australian-open/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/no-97-laura-siegemund-upsets-olympic-champion-zheng-qinwen-at-the-australian-open/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:08:28 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/no-97-laura-siegemund-upsets-olympic-champion-zheng-qinwen-at-the-australian-open/
Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen won’t be repeating her surprising run to the Australian Open final after a second-round upset loss to No. 97-ranked Laura Siegemund in his first tournament for 2025.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/tiger-woods-makes-indoor-golf-debut-and-finds-humor-in-blowout-loss-noting-how-bad-pros-can-be/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/tiger-woods-makes-indoor-golf-debut-and-finds-humor-in-blowout-loss-noting-how-bad-pros-can-be/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:08:22 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/tiger-woods-makes-indoor-golf-debut-and-finds-humor-in-blowout-loss-noting-how-bad-pros-can-be/
Tiger Woods was the sixth and final player to emerge from the tunnel and onto the field of play for his TGL debut.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/man-accused-of-stalking-caitlin-clark-proclaims-himself-guilty-as-charged-in-1st-court-appearance/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/man-accused-of-stalking-caitlin-clark-proclaims-himself-guilty-as-charged-in-1st-court-appearance/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:59:17 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/man-accused-of-stalking-caitlin-clark-proclaims-himself-guilty-as-charged-in-1st-court-appearance/
A man accused of felony stalking of Indiana Fever star and WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark shouted “guilty as charged” in a courtroom on Tuesday.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/death-toll-in-gaza-likely-40-higher-than-reported-researchers-say/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/death-toll-in-gaza-likely-40-higher-than-reported-researchers-say/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:57:52 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18094161
The peer-reviewed statistical analysis used modeling to provide an objective third-party estimate of casualties. ]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/former-5-star-wide-receiver-johntay-cook-ii-departs-uw-huskies-football-program/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/former-5-star-wide-receiver-johntay-cook-ii-departs-uw-huskies-football-program/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:54:19 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18095088
Former five-star wide receiver Johntay Cook II, who joined UW during the winter transfer window, is no longer part of the program. ]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/kraken/kraken-again-mount-late-rally-score-3-goals-in-third-period-to-beat-penguins/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/kraken/kraken-again-mount-late-rally-score-3-goals-in-third-period-to-beat-penguins/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:49:21 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18076006
Trailing by a goal to the Penguins entering the third period, the Kraken got a pair of scores 50 seconds apart and secured another comeback win.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/he-posted-videos-of-the-start-of-the-palisades-fire-then-the-internet-blamed-him/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/he-posted-videos-of-the-start-of-the-palisades-fire-then-the-internet-blamed-him/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:42:47 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18094378
LOS ANGELES — The five men were meditating off a trail near Skull Rock in the hills above the Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7. With their eyes closed, they spoke about how they were feeling, what they were sensing. One said, "I feel my breath slowing down." Another said, "I feel gravity increasing." Then, all at once, four of them said the same thing: "I smell fire." The five men, including ...]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/crisis-hit-boeing-delivered-less-than-half-as-many-jets-as-airbus-in-2024/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/crisis-hit-boeing-delivered-less-than-half-as-many-jets-as-airbus-in-2024/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:28:50 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18083537
Boeing must turn its fortunes around this year to avoid falling further behind Airbus, which plans a production increase as it fixes its supply chain.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/house-passes-bill-to-bar-trans-athletes-from-female-school-sports/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/house-passes-bill-to-bar-trans-athletes-from-female-school-sports/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:26:45 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18094036
The bill would prohibit federal funding from going to K-12 schools that include transgender students on women’s sports teams.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/australias-prime-minister-demands-russia-explain-what-happened-to-australian-pow/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/australias-prime-minister-demands-russia-explain-what-happened-to-australian-pow/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:09:05 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/australias-prime-minister-demands-russia-explain-what-happened-to-australian-pow/
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will take the “strongest action possible” if Russia has harmed an Australian who was taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-look-at-the-terms-and-tensions-in-the-israel-hamas-draft-ceasefire-deal/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-look-at-the-terms-and-tensions-in-the-israel-hamas-draft-ceasefire-deal/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:56:37 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/a-look-at-the-terms-and-tensions-in-the-israel-hamas-draft-ceasefire-deal/
If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal goes according to the current draft, then fighting will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/biden-announces-2-new-national-monuments-in-california-after-wildfires-scuttled-previous-event/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/biden-announces-2-new-national-monuments-in-california-after-wildfires-scuttled-previous-event/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:31:49 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/biden-announces-2-new-national-monuments-in-california-after-wildfires-scuttled-previous-event/
The declarations bar oil and natural gas drilling, as well as mining and other exploration and production initiatives, on the sites.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/healthy-albert-rusnak-prepared-to-bounce-back-in-latest-sounders-campaign/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/healthy-albert-rusnak-prepared-to-bounce-back-in-latest-sounders-campaign/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:04:48 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18091653
Despite bemoaning preseason training, Sounders midfielder Albert Rusnák is looking forward to a possible formation change and games starting quickly.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nfl/nfl-teams-are-conducting-long-extensive-searches-for-their-next-head-coaches/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nfl/nfl-teams-are-conducting-long-extensive-searches-for-their-next-head-coaches/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:43:12 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/nfl-teams-are-conducting-long-extensive-searches-for-their-next-head-coaches/
Mike Vrabel is in New England.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/fourth-name-for-seahawks-offensive-coordinator-job-revealed/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/fourth-name-for-seahawks-offensive-coordinator-job-revealed/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:38:37 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18094469
The Seahawks’ search for a new offensive coordinator reached its second week, and a new candidate emerged: Vikings assistant Grant Udinski, who is just 28.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/l-a-wildfire-evacuees-scramble-to-find-sleep-in-cars-shelters-and-hotels/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/l-a-wildfire-evacuees-scramble-to-find-sleep-in-cars-shelters-and-hotels/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:35:09 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=18091479
With 92,000 people across L.A. still under evacuation, the displaced were scattered around Southern California, making do however they can.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/5-killed-in-mexican-town-caught-between-battling-criminal-groups/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/5-killed-in-mexican-town-caught-between-battling-criminal-groups/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:33:43 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/5-killed-in-mexican-town-caught-between-battling-criminal-groups/
Schools and some businesses were closed in the town of Huitzilac, south of Mexico's capital, and few people walked the streets, hours after five people were gunned down on the same street where another attack left eight dead just eight months earlier.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/bidens-education-chief-says-he-avoided-culture-wars-despite-goading-from-gop-governors/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/bidens-education-chief-says-he-avoided-culture-wars-despite-goading-from-gop-governors/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:28:31 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/bidens-education-chief-says-he-avoided-culture-wars-despite-goading-from-gop-governors/
While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden’s education chief said he was focused on what matters — putting more social workers in schools, expanding summer school and building a pipeline of new teachers.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/border-crossings-in-december-trend-low-as-biden-administration-wraps-up/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/border-crossings-in-december-trend-low-as-biden-administration-wraps-up/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:27:26 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/border-crossings-in-december-trend-low-as-biden-administration-wraps-up/
U.S. officials have announced the latest border data, and it suggests the Biden administration is poised to end its term without an expected bump in illegal border crossings.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/what-to-know-from-pete-hegseths-fiery-confirmation-hearing/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/what-to-know-from-pete-hegseths-fiery-confirmation-hearing/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:23:27 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/what-to-know-from-pete-hegseths-fiery-confirmation-hearing/
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has publicly faced senators for the first time.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/business/sec-sues-elon-musk-saying-he-didnt-disclose-twitter-ownership-on-time-before-buying-it/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/business/sec-sues-elon-musk-saying-he-didnt-disclose-twitter-ownership-on-time-before-buying-it/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:15:07 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/sec-sues-elon-musk-saying-he-didnt-disclose-twitter-ownership-on-time-before-buying-it/
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued billionaire Elon Musk, saying he failed to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock in a timely manner in early 2022, before buying the social media site.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/prominent-puerto-rican-civil-rights-leader-jose-cha-cha-jimenez-dies-at-76/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/prominent-puerto-rican-civil-rights-leader-jose-cha-cha-jimenez-dies-at-76/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:52:10 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/prominent-puerto-rican-civil-rights-leader-jose-cha-cha-jimenez-dies-at-76/
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and Co-Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/obesity-wont-be-solely-defined-by-bmi-under-new-plan-for-diagnosis-by-global-experts/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/obesity-wont-be-solely-defined-by-bmi-under-new-plan-for-diagnosis-by-global-experts/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:51:11 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/obesity-wont-be-solely-defined-by-bmi-under-new-plan-for-diagnosis-by-global-experts/
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/arkansas-governor-says-professors-should-be-fired-if-they-are-indoctrinating-students/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/arkansas-governor-says-professors-should-be-fired-if-they-are-indoctrinating-students/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:51:09 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/arkansas-governor-says-professors-should-be-fired-if-they-are-indoctrinating-students/
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/college/ncaa-to-dole-out-1-2m-to-help-pay-for-house-settlement-its-president-asks-for-congress-to-step-in/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/college/ncaa-to-dole-out-1-2m-to-help-pay-for-house-settlement-its-president-asks-for-congress-to-step-in/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:50:34 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/ncaa-to-dole-out-1-2m-to-help-pay-for-house-settlement-its-president-asks-for-congress-to-step-in/
Stressing his own organization’s ability to pay out $1.2 billion over 10 years to help settle an industry-changing lawsuit, NCAA President Charlie Baker also urged Congress to pass legislation that could put college sports on a better path.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trial-starts-for-west-virginia-couple-accused-of-subjecting-their-5-children-to-forced-labor/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trial-starts-for-west-virginia-couple-accused-of-subjecting-their-5-children-to-forced-labor/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:48:09 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/trial-starts-for-west-virginia-couple-accused-of-subjecting-their-5-children-to-forced-labor/
Trial has started for a West Virginia couple accused of subjecting their five children to forced labor and locking two of them in an outbuilding.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/california-pulls-back-epa-requests-for-approval-to-phase-out-diesel-powered-trains-and-big-rigs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/california-pulls-back-epa-requests-for-approval-to-phase-out-diesel-powered-trains-and-big-rigs/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:46:06 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/california-pulls-back-epa-requests-for-approval-to-phase-out-diesel-powered-trains-and-big-rigs/
California has withdrawn requests for the EPA to give the state authority to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs.]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/3-chinese-citizens-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-illegal-mining-in-congo/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/3-chinese-citizens-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-illegal-mining-in-congo/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:39:03 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/news/3-chinese-citizens-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-illegal-mining-in-congo/
Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings.]]>