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from KHQ.com
Sun Eruption May Supercharge Northern Lights Friday
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from kirotv.com
US to beef up missile defense against NKorea
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from The Spokesman-Review
High court says Yates case won’t get review
Serial killer claimed death penalty unfair
Expansion gets bipartisan support
Federal money available to enlarge Medicaid
Health care reform a global constant
Author blames U.S. high costs on complexity
Assault weapons ban clears deeply divided Senate panel
Party-line vote shows measure has little chance of success
TSA stands behind relaxed rule on knives
Policy change under fire from airlines, workers
U.S. says Karzai’s remarks heighten threat to troops
Francis eschews papal pomp
Pontiff’s first day marked by humility
Spy flight face-off is third in 15 months
Encounters with Iran
Senator says focus should be economic
Paul and Rubio star as CPAC conference opens
Both candidates are tea-party favorites
Visits done, but no sign of budget deal
Lawmakers expect little from president’s talks
Judge rules for Monaghan on issue of contraception
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Lawmakers expect little from president’s talks
Judge rules for Monaghan on issue of contraception
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Isreali leader secures third term
Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached deals Thursday with two political rivals that will enable him to forge a broad-based, but potentially unstable, coalition government.
After weeks of hard-fought negotiations with the centrist party Yesh Atid and the nationalist Jewish Home, Netanyahu managed to persuade both to join his government with a combination of political promises and coveted ministry appointments.
The agreements were still awaiting final signatures Thursday night, reportedly delayed by discussion of government titles for some players. The deals give Netanyahu a 68-vote majority in Israel’s 120-seat parliament.
That means Netanyahu will secure a third term as Israel’s leader.
The new coalition forced Netanyahu to terminate, at least for now, his longtime alliance with Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties. They were left out of the government because the other coalition partners want to pass legislation to draft ultra-Orthodox young people into the army for the first time and cut government stipends that many religious families receive.
FCC crackdown on TV urged
BOISE – Idaho legislators want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on TV portrayals of premarital sex, including people joking about sex, lying in bed together or undressing.
The Idaho House State Affairs Committee on Thursday passed a nonbinding “memorial” to encourage the FCC to target such portrayals in scripted TV shows, reality shows and ads.
HJM 2, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Bolz, R-Caldwell, and six GOP co-sponsors, cites the Idaho Constitution’s statement that “the first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of the home.” The measure alleges “Inappropriate and indecent material is being broadcast more frequently” and notes that the FCC is charged with preventing the broadcast of indecent programming between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when children might be watching. The memorial calls on the federal agency to “resume enforcement of traditional American standards of decency.”
Lawmakers worried about Japan’s role in trade talks
WASHINGTON – Concerned that Japan’s possible participation in ongoing trade talks among Pacific nations threatens the U.S. auto industry, congressional Democrats raised their worries in a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday.
At least four dozen House and Senate Democrats said Japan has a long history of erecting barriers against U.S. auto imports and resisting U.S. efforts to create a more level playing field, and that is unlikely to change if Japan joins the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, negotiations aimed at establishing free trade principles.
Instead, they wrote, Japanese auto exports to the United States could increase if the United States eliminates its current 2.5 percent car tariffs and 25 percent truck tariffs.
“These longstanding economically harmful practices are not susceptible to cursory negotiations at this stage, three years into the U.S. involvement in the TPP negotiations and close to the administration’s target date” for concluding the TPP talks, they wrote.
The administration has said it hopes to wrap up the negotiations by the end of this year. Last month, during a visit to Washington, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a joint statement with Obama saying they would continue talks on Japan’s “possible interest” in joining the TPP talks.
Survey finds more mothers would like to work full time
LOS ANGELES – Mothers’ attitudes toward full-time work have shifted since 2007, with more women wanting to work full time, a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday found.
Among mothers with children under 18, the percentage that said they wish to work full time grew to 32 percent in 2012 – up from 20 percent in 2007.
The survey, which also examined how fathers balance family and work life, also found that the public remains divided on the impact of parents’ work schedules on their children.
Only 16 percent of those polled said mothers working full time is ideal, while 42 percent said the more preferable situation is mothers working part time. A third reported that the best thing for children is that mothers do not work at all outside of the home.
“Women have made major strides in education and employment, and the American workplace has been transformed,” Pew said. “But with these changes have come the added pressures of balancing work and family life, for mothers and fathers alike.”
Unemployment claims fall to five-year low
WASHINGTON – Fewer Americans sought unemployment aid last week, reducing the average number of weekly applications last month to a five-year low. The drop shows that fewer layoffs are strengthening the job market.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 332,000. That reduced the four-week average to 346,750, the lowest since the week of March 8, 2008, three months after the Great Recession began.
The report “provides further evidence of a gradual strengthening in labor market conditions,” Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients.
Investors appeared to view the report as further evidence that job growth and the economy are strengthening. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 64 points in mid-day trading, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index neared its all-time high.
Applications for unemployment aid are a proxy for layoffs, and their steady decline signals that companies are laying off fewer and fewer workers.
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New CCS program helping students pursue top education
American Honors offers university-level classes
OxyContin case overwhelms court
Teens are smoking and drinking less, but plenty use pot
State Senate passes asbestos labeling
Senate panel rips JPMorgan
Report says bank execs hid massive trading losses from regulators
Mortgage rates, points edge up
Oversight on student loans could tighten
Bureau wants to supervise nonbank lenders’ actions
Northwest wood products feed hungry Asian market
Editorial: Northwest’s Big Hydro has begun to think small
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from The Wenatchee World
from The Wenatchee World
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| One of Wenatchee’s pioneer businesses was Shorty’s Transfer, shown here in this 1895 photo. The location was near Palouse Street and Wenatchee Avenue. |
Hastings tries again with bill to limit cabin fees
New pope tied up in Argentina's 'dirty war' debate
State bills status as budget looms
One in three counties dying, census finds
Deaths exceeding births, and young are leaving town
Immigration authorities admit freeing more than 2,000 detainees
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