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Breakout rockers Enumclaw are ready to be everyone's new favorite band

SEATTLE — By now, the sweat has dried. So have the signatures on the stacks of records the guys from Washington's buzziest band, Enumclaw, sold during what frontman Aramis Johnson deems the young indie rockers' top local show to date — a Friday night album-release bash recently at a packed…

Tribune News Service · Oct 31, 2022

US Efforts to Impose Sanctions on Algeria Stir Debate

US Ambassador to Algeria Elizabeth Moore Aubin commented Sunday on a request presented last month by several US Congressmen demanding that Washington sanction Algiers for extensively trading arms with Russia, saying that part of her diplomatic job is to explain US law to Algerian officials. “Algeria’s officials will then make…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 31, 2022

US Should Stop Trying to Suppress China, Says Wang Yi

The United States should stop trying to contain and suppress China and avoid creating obstacles to the relationship, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his US counterpart on Monday. Wang also said in a Monday phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that export controls that Washington imposed…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 31, 2022

LOOK: Best photos from Seahawks Week 8 win over Giants

Take a look at some of the best photos from the Seattle Seahawks impressive victory over the New York Giants in Week 8 at Lumen Field.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 31, 2022

Giants vs. Seahawks: Best photos from Week 8

The best photos from a Week 8 game between the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks -- a game Big Blue lost, 27-13.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 30, 2022

GOP leader pledges China investigation If Republicans win House

WASHINGTON — House Republicans would set up a committee to investigate how COVID-19 spread from China and focus on military and economic threats posed by Beijing if the GOP wins control in Nov. 8 congressional elections, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said.

Tribune News Service · Oct 30, 2022

Conservative justices may end affirmative action in college admissions — and beyond

WASHINGTON — Following last term's overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court's conservatives are moving now to sharply limit or strike down affirmative action at colleges and universities.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 30, 2022

We are a tinderbox’: Political violence is ramping up, US experts warn

In San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights neighborhood, an intruder broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and violently attacked her husband. In a New York courtroom, a man pleaded guilty to threatening to kill California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. In Washington, federal law enforcement warned that violent domestic extremism posed…

Los Angeles Times · Oct 30, 2022

Biden faces 'unpredictable' era with China's empowered Xi

President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking term as Communist Party leader

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2022

Russia scolds U.S. over grain deal remarks

Russia's ambassador to Washington scolded the United States on Sunday for making what he said were false assertions about Moscow's decision to suspend its participation in a U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal.

Reuters · Oct 30, 2022