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Fox News has dealt a major shakeup to its staff, laying off more than a dozen staffers after falling behind in the ratings, as some of the departing employees told media outlets the move might be in response to backlash from President Donald Trump and his supporters over how the network handled its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties...

At least a dozen people were arrested in Seattle -- and two vehicles were impounded -- Monday after a group of people showing their support for Black Lives Matter blocked a freeway, causing traffic delays throughout the afternoon. A video showed troopers with Washington State Patrol attempting to usher a group of people holding hands and sitting down off of the I-5 North collector-distributor road...

The National Rifle Association on Friday filed for bankruptcy, a sudden development that could help the gun rights group escape a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general seeking its dissolution. The NRA filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Dallas, and said it plans to reincorporate in Texas to escape “a corrupt political and regulatory environment” in New York, where it is...

The Texas realtor who bragged on social media about flying a private jet to the Capitol riot is seeking a presidential pardon — and said anyone arrested in connection with the siege deserves one too. “I would ask the President of the United States to give me a pardon,” Jenna Ryan told CBS 11 in Dallas from her home in Carrollton, Texas, on Friday, following her release from FBI custody, hours afte...

The second weekend of January 2021 was a busy one for the Portland Police Bureau. Officers responded to five shootings between Saturday morning and Sunday night. "The pace hasn't slowed down going into the new year as everyone hoped it would," said Officer Derek Carmon. Carmon says on Saturday afternoon somebody was shot near North Interstate and North Going.  At 3:30 a.m. Sunday, a...

Seattle Is Dying. It's a harsh title. Someone on social media even called it a "hopeless" title. I'll admit to you that I wrestled with the name for some time. Too dramatic, I wondered? Too dark? In the end I went with it because I believe it to be true. I believe that Seattle is dying. Rotting from within. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynold...

SEATTLE received a setback in its effort to create a supervised heroin consumption site after a federal appeals court denied a similar effort in Philadelphia to create locations for heroin users to inject the drug with a nurse present. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that a heroin consumption site in Pennsylvania could not open because it would violate federal drug laws,...

A federal grand jury has indicted a former member of the Washington National Guard on felony charges, alleging he broke into the U.S. Capitol with the insurrectionist mob last week and repeatedly punched a federal police officer. Mark Jefferson Leffingwell, 51, of Seattle, was arrested last Wednesday inside the Capitol, and on Monday became one of the first people indicted after last week's d...

A fire that broke out before dawn Wednesday in Venice destroyed a two-story building along the beachfront, authorities said. The blaze erupted at a homeless encampment on the south side of the commercial building in the 700 block of South Ocean Front Walk, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. Flames quickly overtook the nearly 7,000-square-foot structure. No injuri...

If you traveled to San Francisco 25–30 years ago, you would have found a different city, different people and a different atmosphere. However, things have changed drastically since the 90’s; not only the universities in and around it have regressed and lost much of the free thought in particular, but the city itself is undergoing a major crisis and perhaps one of its worst times. Join your host Se...

On January 8, Portland Brewing, one of Oregon’s original craft breweries, took to Facebook to announce that it would be closing its doors forever in early February.  And one of our favorite Pacific Northwest craft beer sites, the New School, took the opportunity to reach out to current and former owners and brewers of Portland Brewing for their memories and reflections. Everybody’s take on this sa...

Business owners all across the state are being hit with a tax increase they were assured would never happen. Unemployment tax rates are going up at a time when few can afford it — after hearing from the Washington Employment Security Department last year that they would not go up in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds &...

The president of Seattle’s rank and file police union says he will not step down, despite growing calls for his resignation after he blamed, in part, the “far left” and Black Lives Matter activists for the pro-Trump siege on the U.S. Capitol. In a letter to Seattle Police Officers Guild members, Solan expressed regret for commenting on national politics, but said his comments have been “spun inten...

Boeing to pay $244 million penalty to settle fraud charges tied to 737 MAX crashes. Boeing has agreed to pay just over $2.5 billion to resolve a federal charge of “criminal misconduct” for how its employees misled regulatory officials during certification of the 737 MAX, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kli...

Social-media platform Parler has sued Amazon.com Inc. after the tech giant abruptly ended web-hosting services to the company, effectively halting its operation. In a complaint filed Monday in Seattle federal court, Parler alleged that Amazon Web Services kicked the company off its cloud servers for political and anti-competitive reasons. The conservative social network founded in 2018 exploded in...

The number of homicides in Seattle has skyrocketed, as compared to the last year, but interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz says it’s not easy to compare 2020 with 2019. “As we all know, 2020 was a year like no other,” he said. “We know, both because of COVID and other events, that the number of 911 calls dropped throughout most of the year. Due to the pandemic, we all changed our behaviors. Stores clo...

The president of Seattle's rank and file police officer's union is facing an internal investigation and calls to apologize or resign after tweets suggesting liberal activists are partly to blame for the U.S. Capitol riot. Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan tweeted Friday that the "far right and the far left are responsible for that sad day" and retweeted a messa...

As pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, others supporting the president gathered in state capitals nationwide to oppose President-elect Joe Biden’s win, leading to the evacuations of some statehouses and lawmakers. Violence erupted in Washington, D.C., as Congress tried to affirm Biden’s Electoral College victory. A mob breached the U.S. Capitol, resulti...

Insurance underwriters are taking riots and damage into account when choosing whether or not to renew some policies. In downtown Portland, plywood and graffiti are the new cityscape. Only, it isn’t new, anymore.  Since late last spring, businesses have been dealing with damage and looting from riots and protests, most recently a New Year’s Eve riot organized by an anti-capitalist group. In May, Me...

Boeing says it’ll be repurposing the Seattle-area facility that has served as the focus for research into the composite materials used in aircraft ranging from the B-2 Stealth bomber to the 787 Dreamliner. In an emailed statement, Boeing said much of the work being done at the Advanced Developmental Composites Center, situated across the street from Seattle’s Museum of Flight, will be distributed...

More than 150 employees at a Costco in the state of Washington that tested positive for COVID-19 have returned to work following a mandatory quarantine period, FOX Business has confirmed. As of Tuesday, 173 employees at the Union Gap warehouse in Yakima County have been infected with the virus and were forced to quarantine, the Yakima Health District and the store's general manager, Keri Luft...

Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday a plan that will eventually allow businesses like restaurants to open back up once the state gets a better handle on the coronavirus pandemic. The Healthy Washington plan breaks the state into regions that are tied together by health care systems and uses metrics to determine when the counties in designated regions can begin to open. Each region will need to meet...

President Trump’s signature Sunday on the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill started a 180-day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs. The provision received very little attention in part because it wasn’t included in the text of the 5,593-page legislation, but as a "committee comment" attached to the annual intelligence author...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler minced no words in his opening remarks at a New Year’s Day press conference following a riot on New Year’s Eve in downtown. Wheeler laid out the “who, what, when, where and why” of what happened Thursday. “The who: violent antifa and anarchists,” the mayor said. They rampaged through downtown Portland causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage with spray painting, wi...

Hollywood Boulevard has been reduced to a ghost town amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with three-quarters of businesses boarded up and locals left wondering whether the area will ever recover.  The street, which runs through the heart of Hollywood and is one of the most iconic thoroughfares in the world, previously attracted 10 million people each year.  The boulevard was built on international...