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Heart of Earth's inner core revealed
Research from China and the US suggests that the innermost core of our planet has another, distinct region at its centre.
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Here's what will happen to Earth when our galaxy collides with the Andromeda Galaxy
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Brent Bozell: 'NBC Is Unbelievable--Literally--Just Like Brian Williams'
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The Eugenics Plot of the Minimum Wage
There really was a white male scheme to exterminate African Americans
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(FFMU) (Shoebat.com) [Information from this site may be unreliable.]Two Christian Girls Get Stripped Naked And Brutally Raped, But Rescue Christians Just Saved Them
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Rosie O'Donnell Cites Heart Attack, Stress As Reasons For Leaving 'The View'
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Rosie O'Donnell Cites Heart Attack, Stress As Reasons For Leaving 'The View'
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Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Earth's Inner Core
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from Investor's Business Daily
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
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Here’s how Jordan is about to make ISIS’s life absolutely miserable
Here’s how Jordan is about to make ISIS’s life absolutely miserable
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from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Deep bore tunnel project IS 70 percent complete, WSDOT insists
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Deep bore tunnel project IS 70 percent complete, WSDOT insists
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Brian Williams suspended by NBC News for 6 months
NBC says it is suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War.
Federal prosecutors will not seek death penalty in Doug Carlile murder
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they will not seek the death penalty for five of the six men implicated in the December 2013 death of South Hill resident Doug Carlile.
Jon Stewart quitting ‘The Daily Show’
Jon Stewart, who turned his biting and free-wheeling humor into an unlikely source of news and analysis for viewers of “The Daily Show,” will leave as host this year, Comedy Central said Tuesday.
Two panels approve WSU med school bills
A bill that would allow Washington State University to start a medical school in Spokane passed a House committee on a 12-1 vote.
Barefoot runner’s family sues shoe company
The family of an Ethiopian runner who famously won an Olympic marathon barefoot is suing Vibram, the maker of a popular line of minimalist running shoes, saying it used his name without permission.
Special license plate to benefit ‘Friends of NRA’ barely squeaks through Idaho Senate
A North Idaho lawmaker’s bill to create a new specialty license plate to benefit the “Friends of the NRA” barely squeaked through the Idaho Senate on Tuesday, passing on a narrow 18-15 vote. The bill, HB 16, sponsored by Rep. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, earlier passed the House 61-8; it now goes to the governor’s desk.
Large sediment plume enters Lake Coeur d’Alene
A sediment plume was photographed entering Lake Coeur d’Alene’s Wolf Lodge Bay on Monday morning. The dirty water raises concerns about possible ties to Forest Service logging practices upstream.
Milky rain mystery solved
The “milky rain” many experienced last week in the Pacific Northwest came from the Summer Lake region nearly 500 miles away in south central Oregon, according to Washington State University meteorologist Nic Loyd.
Montana coal-fired power plant closing
The J.E. Corette coal-fired power plant in Billings will shut down in August, its owner said Tuesday, making it the latest casualty in a wave of closures across the country that have left the coal industry reeling. By the end of decade, the mercury restrictions and competition from cheap natural gas are expected to push into retirement coal plants across the country that generate more than 60,000 megawatts of power, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Appeals court: Boise health system broke antitrust laws
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that determined St. Luke’s Health System’s acquisition of Nampa-based Saltzer Medical Group violated federal antitrust laws. The 37-page decision released Tuesday upheld U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s ruling in January 2014 that the buyout needed to be unwound because it’s likely the deal would raise health care costs by giving the hospital a dominant market position.
Second victim identified in fatal fire
The man who died in a house fire Saturday was 38-year-old Christopher Rusco. Rusco and Stacy Hains, also 38, died from smoke inhalation after a fire started in a second-story bedroom of their home at 2213 E. Fourth Ave. in Spokane.
Police search for suspects in morning armed robbery
Just after 6 a.m., two men walked into the Tesoro station at East 17th Avenue and South Ray Street. One displayed a gun, and the men took cash and other merchandise, police said.
Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling may foretell future decision
The Supreme Court on Monday gave its strongest signal yet that advocates seeking the legalization of gay marriage nationwide have won even before April’s arguments. The justices, with only two dissents, turned down a plea to delay same-sex marriages in Alabama by the state’s attorney general. The court’s action clears the way, for the first time in the Deep South, for gay couples to seek marriage licenses. A federal judge in Alabama had struck down the state’s law limiting marriage to a man and a woman.
Celebration, improvements in store for Spokane Arena’s 20th year
When the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena opened in 1995, the owner of the Spokane Chiefs declared it to be the finest facility of its kind in any small city in America. Today, the Arena staff is getting ready for a 20th anniversary celebration, which will include a huge new mural, a new veterans’ memorial and improvements to the venue’s hospitality offerings.
Councilman Mike Fagan questions need for vaccines
Three days after the Spokane Regional Health District asked every adult and child in the region to get vaccinated against measles, health board member and Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan questioned the use of vaccines and said recent outbreaks of contagious disease are linked to illegal immigration.
Mountains of snow, more to come in East
The third major winter storm in less than two weeks inflicted fresh snow – and misery – across New England and portions of New York state on Monday. Boston, which broke records set during the epic Blizzard of ’78, grappled with a conundrum: Where to put it all?
The third major winter storm in less than two weeks inflicted fresh snow – and misery – across New England and portions of New York state on Monday. Boston, which broke records set during the epic Blizzard of ’78, grappled with a conundrum: Where to put it all?
Government to spend $3.2 million to help monarch butterflies
The federal government on Monday pledged $3.2 million to help save the monarch butterfly, the iconic orange-and-black butterfly that can migrate thousands of miles between the U.S. and Mexico each year. In recent years, the species has experienced a 90 percent decline in population, with the lowest recorded population occurring in 2013-14.
The federal government on Monday pledged $3.2 million to help save the monarch butterfly, the iconic orange-and-black butterfly that can migrate thousands of miles between the U.S. and Mexico each year. In recent years, the species has experienced a 90 percent decline in population, with the lowest recorded population occurring in 2013-14.
Health care offers attractive growth opportunities for cyber criminals looking to steal reams of personal information. The latest breach at health insurer Anthem Inc. follows a year in which more than 10 million people were affected by health care data breaches – including hacking or accidents that exposed personal information, such as lost laptops – according to a government database that tracks incidents affecting at least 500 people. The numbers, compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services, show that last year was the worst for health care hacking since 2011, when more than 11 million people were affected.
Washington pilot missing in Africa
Last year, Bill Fitzpatrick, 59, of Chelan, Washington, disappeared while traveling alone in a small plane in West Africa, heading to a new job as an anti-poaching pilot in a national park. Investigators think he hit a mountain, but the location of his Cessna 172 remains a mystery after a search stymied by limited resources, patchy help from local authorities and forested, mountainous terrain.
Last year, Bill Fitzpatrick, 59, of Chelan, Washington, disappeared while traveling alone in a small plane in West Africa, heading to a new job as an anti-poaching pilot in a national park. Investigators think he hit a mountain, but the location of his Cessna 172 remains a mystery after a search stymied by limited resources, patchy help from local authorities and forested, mountainous terrain.
Illinois unions take hit with governor’s order
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner struck a first official blow on Monday against the public-sector labor unions he has frequently criticized by ordering an end to a requirement that workers pay dues even if they decide not to join a union.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner struck a first official blow on Monday against the public-sector labor unions he has frequently criticized by ordering an end to a requirement that workers pay dues even if they decide not to join a union.
Same-sex marriage comes to Alabama
Alabama’s chief justice built his career on defiance. On Monday, as Alabama became the 37th state where gays can legally wed, Moore took a defiant stand again, employing the kind of states’ rights language used during the Civil War era and again during the civil rights movement. Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican and a Southern Baptist, said he believes strongly that marriage is between one man and one woman, but that the issue should be “worked out through the proper legal channels” and not through defiance of the law.
Alabama’s chief justice built his career on defiance. On Monday, as Alabama became the 37th state where gays can legally wed, Moore took a defiant stand again, employing the kind of states’ rights language used during the Civil War era and again during the civil rights movement. Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican and a Southern Baptist, said he believes strongly that marriage is between one man and one woman, but that the issue should be “worked out through the proper legal channels” and not through defiance of the law.
An 11-year-old suburban girl has been charged with murder in the beating death of a 2-month-old who was staying overnight with her and her mother to give the baby’s mom a break.
Oldest USS Arizona survivor dies at 100
Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Langdell, the oldest living crew member of the battleship USS Arizona to have survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Feb. 4 at a nursing home in Yuba City in Northern California at the age of 100.
Residents return to homes after fire
More than 200 residents of two communities ravaged by a wildfire along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada were allowed to return home Monday. People whose homes were not destroyed have been allowed back. The owners of the 40 homes that were destroyed by the fire in Swall Meadows and nearby Paradise will be allowed to come and go to salvage what they can.
Stampede at Egyptian stadium caused by tear gas
Survivors described it as a corridor of death: a narrow route of high, chain-link security fences and barbed wire that thousands of soccer fans were filing through before entering the stadium. Then, mayhem broke out. Those at the front of the line were turned back by police. Those in the back continued to press forward. Jittery police fired tear gas into the middle of the crowd, creating what survivors said was “like a whirlpool” – sucking people into a crush of bodies with no way out. The stampede killed 22 people Sunday night at the Air Defense stadium, a military facility in an eastern suburb of Cairo.
An attempt to get the Sept. 11 terror case moving again came to an abrupt end Monday as at least two of five defendants identified a new courtroom interpreter as someone they encountered while held in secret CIA custody before being taken to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for a long-stalled military trial.
Obama, Merkel back Ukraine diplomacy
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel rallied behind efforts to reach a long-shot diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on Monday, but they offered no clear path for how the West would proceed if talks this week fail. During a joint White House news conference, Obama dangled the prospect that the U.S. could for the first time send anti-tank weapons and other defensive arms to Ukraine. Merkel staunchly opposes arming Ukraine’s beleaguered military.
Police arrested Todd D. Simms, 46, Friday in connection with a Jan. 25 robbery. He is accused of breaking into a 93-year-old man’s home, punching him in the face several times and stealing his wallet.
Open gas tanks at standoff
A Spokane Valley man arrested Sunday after a four-hour standoff with a Spokane County SWAT team barricaded himself in a shop with open acetylene tanks. Christopher L. Ferrell, 35, is accused of domestic violence assault and malicious mischief for allegedly putting his wife in a chokehold and slashing his sister-in-law’s tires after an argument early Sunday.
‘Ninja’ wields bat in attack
A man wearing a “ninja mask” attacked a Spokane restaurant owner with a baseball bat Saturday night, according to police. Justin E. Rodney, 25, has been arrested on suspicion that he assaulted the owner of Mamma Mia’s on West Francis Avenue.
Greyhound Park says it depends on instant racing machines
The manager of the Greyhound Park Event Center in Post Falls told Idaho lawmakers Monday that the park will shut down if they repeal the law that allowed slot machine-like “instant racing” terminals to be installed there last spring.
The manager of the Greyhound Park Event Center in Post Falls told Idaho lawmakers Monday that the park will shut down if they repeal the law that allowed slot machine-like “instant racing” terminals to be installed there last spring.
Washington’s ‘Sheena’s Law’ presented to committee
Family and friends of a woman killed by her husband at a Spokane hospital last July tried to make it clear Monday they are not anti-gun. They are pro-warning. Although a gun-rights group questioned whether Sheena Henderson’s law would infringe on the Second Amendment, her father Gary Kennison said the proposal has nothing to do with taking guns away from people. Instead, it’s about letting family members know when a person who may be suffering from mental health issues or was accused of domestic violence gets their guns back from police custody.
Family and friends of a woman killed by her husband at a Spokane hospital last July tried to make it clear Monday they are not anti-gun. They are pro-warning. Although a gun-rights group questioned whether Sheena Henderson’s law would infringe on the Second Amendment, her father Gary Kennison said the proposal has nothing to do with taking guns away from people. Instead, it’s about letting family members know when a person who may be suffering from mental health issues or was accused of domestic violence gets their guns back from police custody.
If adults don’t want to wear helmets while riding motorcycles, they shouldn’t have to, said supporters of a bill to lift Washington’s helmet requirement for riders 18 and older. Washington is one of 19 states that require a helmet for anyone riding a motorcycle or moped on state highways, county roads and city streets. The bill, SB 5198, which got a hearing Monday before the Senate Transportation Committee, would allow adults to forgo protective headgear. Twenty-eight states have laws requiring only some riders to wear a helmet, usually riders under a certain age. Three states have no helmet requirement.
Senate Bill 5656 would bar drivers from sending or receiving any information without a hands-free device. It got a hearing Monday before the Senate Transportation Committee.
Seattle Seahawks fans who traveled to Phoenix on the promise of Super Bowl tickets that didn’t materialize are being urged to contact the state’s Consumer Protection office.
Suspect in store shooting arrested in Montana
A 23-year-old man tied to a shooting at a Hillyard grocery store was arrested Monday in Montana. Ricky Tanner was identified Friday by Spokane police as a suspect in the shots-fired incident, which took place Jan. 26 at the Safeway on North Market Street
Report finds millions spent on outside legal work
Idaho state agencies are spending more than $10 million a year on outside legal counsel when they could be saving money by using the Idaho attorney general’s office, according to a report released Monday by a legislative committee.
Greece put a brave face on its fraught negotiations with European bailout creditors, with the new prime minister voicing confidence Monday that a compromise can be reached at high-stakes meetings in coming days.
West Coast ports reopen, talks resume
West Coast seaports fully reopened Monday after two days during which no ships were unloaded amid a labor dispute between dockworkers and their employers. The two sides are negotiating a new contract, and bargaining-table tensions have spilled over to the waterfront, where cargo is moving far slower than normal through ports that handle about one-quarter of the nation’s international trade – nearly $1 trillion annually.
Report reveals HSBC clients’ tax-dodging
HSBC’s Swiss private bank hid millions of dollars for drug traffickers, arms dealers and celebrities as it helped wealthy people around the world dodge taxes, according to a report based on leaked documents that lifts the veil on the country’s banking secrecy laws.
Twenty-one employers will take part in a Post Falls hiring event Wednesday sponsored by the Idaho Department of Labor.
Qualcomm, China settle anti-monopoly claim
Qualcomm has agreed to pay $975 million to China after the government found that the chipmaker violated that country’s anti-monopoly laws.
Food scares in Asia hurting McDonald’s
Food-quality scares are hurting McDonald’s in China and Japan, where weakness contributed to a key global sales figure falling 1.8 percent.
Netflix brings streaming to Cuba
Netflix is launching its movie and TV show streaming service in Cuba as Internet access in the country improves and credit and debit cards become more widely available.
Avista seeking Washington rate hikes in 2016
Avista Utilities has begun the process of asking Washington regulators to approve higher electric and natural gas rates, with an effective date of January 2016. Avista wants the average residential electric customer to pay $6.45 more each month, bringing the average bill to $87.67, based on usage of 966 kilowatts hours per month. Avista is asking that the average residential natural gas customers pay an extra $5.41 per month, bringing that portion of the bill to $73.57 for usage of 68 therms per month. The proposal also includes a steep hike in monthly basic charges, which customers pay in addition to their energy use. Instead of an $8.50 monthly basic charge, electricity customers would pay $14. For natural gas customers, the monthly basic charge would increase from $9 to $12.
Robert J. Samuelson: Demographics skewing spending priorities
Editorial: Studded tire permits are reasonable alternative to ban
House Call: Fluoride helps balance bacteria’s wreckage
Ask Dr. K: Arthritic knees? Jog on softer surface
Start now to improve health
Here are five ways to improve your health starting today that might even save you money in the long run. 1. Walk more. 2. Protect yourself from the sun. 3. Schedule your annual physical. 4. Slash the sugar. 5. Get more sleep.
A few questions about measles
Some questions and answers about a still-dangerous disease that’s re-emerged as a leading public health concern
EWU programs offer discounted care to local vets
Local military veterans can get $10 dental care and free physical therapy through an event sponsored by Eastern Washington University’s Dental Hygiene and Physical Therapy programs. Dental students will provide cleanings, X-rays, dental exams and assessments while the physical therapy students will provide screens and recommendations for veterans who may experience neck or back pain, or loss of balance. To schedule an appointment, call (509) 828-1309. The program is first-come, first-served for up to 60 veterans. The Spokane clinic is at 310 N. Riverpoint Blvd.
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Researchers from California University in Berkeley say studies show great nature and art boost the immune system
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Witnesses: Pasco police kill rock-throwing suspect (w/video)
More than a dozen witnesses watched as Pasco police shot and killed a man Tuesday night near a crowded intersection by Fiesta Foods, a popular grocery store. A cellphone video of the shooting posted to YouTube showed officers shooting the man outside Vinny’s Bakery and Cafe on Lewis Street as he ran away.
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The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol
The nation’s top nutrition advisory panel has decided to drop its caution about eating cholesterol-laden food, a move that could undo almost 40 years of government warnings about its consumption. The greater danger lies not in products such as eggs, shrimp or lobster, which are high in cholesterol, but in too many servings of foods heavy with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, whole milk, and butter.
Alabama is one of the two states most opposed to same-sex marriage
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Biden, Kerry Meet With Netanyahu’s Opponent In Germany
Here’s Why This Guy Will Be The Next President Of The United States
Scott Walker is a winner. He relates to all of the wings of the Republican Party. People trust him.
(Western Journalism)
Biden, Kerry Meet With Netanyahu’s Opponent In Germany
Here’s Why This Guy Will Be The Next President Of The United States
Scott Walker is a winner. He relates to all of the wings of the Republican Party. People trust him.
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