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Clallam County Sheriff: 73-year-old Port Angeles man’s death caused by ‘homicidal violence’
A 73-year-old Port Angeles resident’s death was the result of “homicidal violence,” the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.When Clallam County deputies recovered the victim’s, Danny Kendrick, body along Deer Park Road just before 7:30 a.m. Saturday, detectives initially ruled it a “suspicious death.” After examining the results of the autopsy, the cause of death was determined to be a homicide.“Our hearts go out to the family and loved ones of Danny Ken
After Supreme Court rebuke, Democrats call for government to refund billions in Trump tariff money
Customs and Border Protection to issue refunds over the course of 180 days and pay interest on the refunded amount.The measure would prioritize refunds to small businesses and encourages importers, wholesalers and large companies to pass the refunds on to their customers.“Trump’s illegal tax scheme has already done lasting damage to American families, small businesses and manufacturers who have been hammered by wave after wave of new Trump tariffs,” said Wyden, stressing that the “crucial first
25 Mexican National Guard troops left dead during an operation that killed cartel leader ‘El Mencho’
Mexico Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Monday 25 members of the National Guard were left dead in Jalisco in six separate attacks after the killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho” was the boss of one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, notorious for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States and staging brazen attacks against government officials who challenged it.He
Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change. The conservative-majority court agreed to take up a case from Boulder, Colorado, among a series of lawsuits alleging the companies deceived the public about how fossil fuels contribute to climate change.Governments around the country have sought damages totaling billions of dollars, ar
Powerful winter storm roils travel across the US, leading to thousands of flight cancellations
Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport had the highest numbers of cancellations Monday — followed by airports in Boston, Newark, New Jersey and Philadelphia.The National Weather Service called travel conditions “extremely treacherous” and “nearly impossible” in areas hit hardest by the storm.Beyond air traffic, millions of people are stuck at home under road travel bans amid blizzard warnings. On Sunday night, cellphones across New York City received wailing push alerts announ
Judge blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump classified documents case
Smith and his team produced a two-volume report on investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election after he lost to Joe Biden and his retention of classified documents at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House following his first term.Both investigations produced indictments that were abandoned by Smith’s team after Trump’s November 2024 election win in light of longstanding Justice Department legal opinions that say sitting presidents can
Fed’s Waller says rate cut in March is a ‘coin flip’ following a strong US jobs report
The decision left the Fed’s short-term rate at about 3.6%.If February’s jobs report is similar to last month’s, “indicating that downside risks to the labor market have diminished, it may be appropriate” to keep the Fed’s short-term rate “at current levels and watch for continued progress on inflation and strength in the labor market,” Waller said in remarks to a conference held by the National Association for Business Economists. “But if the good labor market news
State Department orders nonessential US diplomats to leave Lebanon as tensions with Iran soar
<p><block></p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats and their families to leave Lebanon as tensions with Iran soar.</p><p></block></p>
Harger: I was just there when Puerto Vallarta was beautiful. Days later, it was on fire.
<p>Five days ago, I was watching the sun come up over Puerto Vallarta harbor. It was one of the most beautiful mornings I can remember. I almost sent a picture to Manda and the crew at “<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/seattles-morning-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle’s Morning News</a>.” I didn’t, because a friend told me to actually be on vacation for once. To unplug.</p><p>I really wish I had. Because after what happened Sunday, I don’t know when any of us will see it that way again.</p><p>I got home Sunday night from a seven-day cruise with my family aboard the Norwegian Bliss. Puerto Vallarta first, then Mazatlan, then Cabo San Lucas. One of the best trips I’ve taken. I was standing in line at LAX waiting to board my flight home to Seattle when the news started coming through.</p><div class="related alignright"><div class="col_label"><h2>RELATED STORIES</h2></div><ul><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/wa-legislature-kids-fentanyl/4203010"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://cdn.mynorthwest.com/mynw/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/olympia-capitol-building-C0524-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: WA legislature has until Tuesday to protect kids from fentanyl. They probably won't." loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/wa-legislature-kids-fentanyl/4203010">Harger: WA legislature has until Tuesday to protect kids from fentanyl. They probably won't.</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-school-seahawks-parade/4201690"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-11T071332.258-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: School be damned, this Seahawks parade will be a once-in-a-lifetime memory" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-school-seahawks-parade/4201690">Harger: School be damned, this Seahawks parade will be a once-in-a-lifetime memory</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-grocery-prices-wa/4201102"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-10T060417.042-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: Grocery prices in WA are already painful, but new legislative proposals could make them even worse" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-grocery-prices-wa/4201102">Harger: Grocery prices in WA are already painful, but new legislative proposals could make them even worse</a></h3></div></li></ul></div><h2>What happened Sunday</h2><p>The Mexican army killed El Mencho, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, in a military operation in Jalisco state. The cartel’s retaliation was immediate. Armed groups set buses and vehicles on fire across the state. Roads were blockaded. The governor activated a Code Red. Tourists at resorts were told not to leave. Air Canada, Southwest, Alaska, and Delta canceled flights. The U.S. State Department issued a shelter-in-place advisory. The streets I walked last week were on fire.</p><h3>What our drivers told us</h3><p>In Puerto Vallarta, our cab driver, Pablo, drove us to a resort. We had a day pass. At some point, the conversation turned to the cartels. He explained the arrangement plainly: the cartel made sure tourists stayed safe. Bad for business otherwise. He said it matter-of-factly, the way you’d explain a local zoning ordinance. Then he went quiet. Eyes back on the road. Subject closed.</p><p>In Mazatlan, we hired a driver named Alberto for the day. Drove us all around town. Talked our ears off. Same conversation. Same careful explanation. Tourists are safe because the cartel says so. That’s the deal.</p><p>A protection racket with good weather. The people of Jalisco didn’t build that arrangement. They inherited it. They live inside it because the alternative has always looked worse.</p><h3>The Seattle connection</h3><p>If you drive along the Seattle waterfront during Alaska cruise season, you know the Norwegian Bliss. Come summer, it runs Alaska itineraries out of Seattle. This time of year, it operates out of Los Angeles on the Mexican Riviera run. My family was on it last week.</p><p>We disembarked Sunday in LA. The ship turned around, took on new passengers, and the captain announced they would not be going to Puerto Vallarta this week. The Norwegian Bliss has already pulled it from the itinerary. The same ship that will be on Seattle’s waterfront this summer, taking people to Alaska, was docked in Puerto Vallarta days ago.</p><p>I wonder if it ever goes back.</p><p>Thousands of Northwest families have trips booked to Mexico in the coming weeks. Spring break is one of the busiest travel periods of the year for Seattle-area families. Nobody has a clear answer right now on when it is safe to return, or whether Puerto Vallarta’s tourism economy recovers. The harder question nobody wants to ask: Is this how Acapulco started?</p><h3>We get what we tolerate, except when you have no choice</h3><p>I’ve said in this space before that we get what we tolerate. But that assumes you have a choice about what you tolerate. A lot of Mexicans don’t. The corruption runs so deep, and has for so long, that the line between government and cartel blurs in ways that are hard to untangle. Killing El Mencho may prove to be a significant achievement. It may also just create a new power vacuum. When El Chapo fell, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel rose to fill the void. There is no clean move on this board.</p><p>I hope Pablo is okay. I hope Alberto is okay. I hope Puerto Vallarta gets its city back.</p><p>That sunrise photo I almost sent Wednesday. Same harbor. Sunday, it had smoke and fire and terror and death behind it. Four days apart.</p><p>None of this exists without a market. American demand for drugs funds every cartel, every weapon, every burning bus you saw in those videos Sunday. We are not innocent bystanders to what happened in Puerto Vallarta.</p><p><i>Charlie Harger is the host of </i><a id="menurkpt" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" title="https://mynorthwest.com/category/seattles-morning-news/" href="https://mynorthwest.com/category/seattles-morning-news/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link “Seattle’s Morning News”"><i>“Seattle’s Morning News”</i></a> <i>on KIRO Newsradio. 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16-year-old killed, two teens critically injured in Yakima shooting
<p>A fatal shooting involving three teenagers took place in Yakima early Sunday morning, the Yakima Police Department confirmed.</p><p>Officers were called to the 400 block of N. 5th Avenue at approximately 3:15 a.m. after receiving reports of shots being fired. When they arrived, they found three teenage victims with gunshot wounds.</p><p>“One victim, a 16-year-old male, was pronounced deceased at the scene,” the Yakima Police Department <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YakimaPoliceDepartment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.</p><p>The two other victims, a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, were transported to MultiCare Hospital and then later to a Seattle-area hospital. They are both in critical condition, as of this reporting.</p><p>“At this time, there is limited information about what led up to the shooting,” the Yakima Police Department wrote. “The identities of the individuals involved are being withheld while detectives continue to piece together what occurred early this morning.”</p><p>Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Yakima Police Department or leave an anonymous tip at Yakima County Crime Stoppers.</p><p><em>This is a developing story, check back for updates</em></p><p><em>Follow Frank Sumrall <a href="https://x.com/FMSumrall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on X</a>. Send <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/contact-us">news tips here.</a></em></p>
Josh Shapiro, in his own words, on political violence and antisemitism
And this is a president who at every turn scapegoats others, disrespects others, attacks others, and I don’t think that he’s sort of violating the tenants of my faith as an American Jew, I think he’s frankly violating the tenants of our shared faith and our shared humanity. And I try and speak to that.My faith teaches me to feed the hungry and motivates me to help those who are in need. And I frankly think the president could use a little bit more shared faith and shared humanity’s life, and may
Trial begins for Utah mom accused of killing husband then writing a children’s book about grief
Court documents also indicate she had a negative bank account balance, owed lenders more than $1.8 million and was being sued by a creditor.Among the witnesses who could be called to testify throughout the trial are a housekeeper who claims to have sold fentanyl to Richins on three occasions and the man with whom Richins was allegedly having an affair.The state’s key witness, housekeeper Carmen Lauber, told a detective she had sold Richins up to 90 blue-green fentanyl pills that she acquir
FBI director joins US men’s hockey team in locker room celebration of Olympic gold medal
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel joined the American men’s hockey players in the locker room Sunday for a rowdy celebration of winning the gold medal in the Winter Olympics.While he was in Milan, the U.S. Secret Service shot and killed an armed man who had driven into Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. Hours later, around the time the game against Canada was headed into overtime, Patel posted on X that the FBI was “dedicating all necessary resources in the inv
As antisemitism rises and strife over Israel continues, Josh Shapiro turns toward his Jewish faith
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of teenagers from more than a dozen countries, many standing on their chairs in a cavernous convention hall, screamed and cheered as Josh Shapiro took the stage.Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor still may be unknown among many Americans outside his home state, but here at BBYO, the world’s largest conference of young Jewish leaders, Shapiro is a rock star.“We’re facing some challenges out there,” he said. He didn’t mention the arson attack h
How Trump will use his State of the Union address to sell skeptical midterm voters on his plans
He might even minimize foreign policy in his State of the Union despite his belief that it’s been a major success.“For as much as foreign policy has dominated his last year in office, this speech will mostly focus on the economy,” Conant predicted.Vice President JD Vance offered a similar prediction, saying in an interview Saturday on Fox News Channel that in the speech, “you’re going to hear a lot about the importance of bringing jobs back into our country, of reshoring manufacturing, of
From dabblers to day traders, small investors’ impact on Wall Street grows even in volatile market
An analysis of where retail investors put their money last year shows they outperformed two of the most popular, professionally managed index funds, SPY and QQQ, whose goal is to mirror the performance of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively.Retail investors accounted for $5.4 trillion in trading activity in 2025 across stocks and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, according to Vanda, an independent data and research firm. That’s a nearly 47% increase from the previous year and the most goi
Never Trump Republicans are still issuing dire warnings. Is anyone listening?
(AP) — Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are tearing at the very fabric of American democracy.A former congressman described the president’s party as an “authoritarian-embracing cult.” A prominent conservative writer said Trumpism is an “existential threat.” And a retired Army general, his voice shaking with emotion, cited post-Nazi Germany as a ro
US men’s hockey gold medal and Eileen Gu’s halfpipe victory highlight final day of Winter Olympics
The US women’s hockey team had also won gold — also in a 2-1 overtime victory over Canada in the final.Norway topped the final medal count with 18 golds and 41 medals overall — best in both categories.Eileen Gu defends Olympic halfpipe titleEileen Gu is now six-for-six in Olympic medal events after another halfpipe victory.The 22-year-old Gu, American-born but competing for her mother’s homeland of China, is already the most decorated freeskier in the short history of the sport at the Olym
Elon Musk interested in buying the Seattle Seahawks? Not so fast with early rumors debunked
With the process of putting the Seattle Seahawks up for sale now officially underway, speculation of who could buy the defending world champions has engulfed the entire Pacific Northwest.Among names being mentioned is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world as of February 2026, with a net worth of nearly $850 billion. Musk is best known for leading several companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and xAI.REPORT: Elon Musk says he is interested in purchasing the Seattle Seahawks
NBC’s big Olympics bet looks smarter as Milan audience up 94% from Beijing
media rights to the Olympics through 2032 for $7.75 billion was a bad business deal.With NBC having its most-watched Winter Games in 12 years, those concerns appear to have quieted.According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, NBC averaged 24 million viewers across its prime afternoon coverage (2-5 p.m. EST) and Primetime in Milan (8-11 p.m. EST and PST) through Friday. That is a 94% improvement over the 2022 Beijing Games.This is the second straight Olympics where viewers have returned in large num