The Latest Politics Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports President Trump threatened to place an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a recession. The Associated Press Health AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices. Sydney Lupkin Friday Evening Headlines Starbucks to lay off nearly 1,000 more local employees, healthcare costs could double for some WA residents, and the Mariners are set to play their most important game in two decades. Patricia Murphy For the first time, the Vashon Island water taxi is running on Saturdays It’s a new era for the Vashon Island water taxi: Boats are now running on Saturdays. The one-year pilot project has islanders excited for more service on the weekends. Casey Martin Elections Oyster farmer and veteran Graham Platner hopes his message lands with Maine voters In Maine, oyster farmer and military veteran Graham Platner has become something of a phenomenon in his bid to topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins in next year's midterm election. Steve Mistler Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with a new stripped-down album, 'Fatal Optimist' Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date. Elle Mannion Latin America Peru's president was impeached. Her replacement has also been plagued by scandal Peru's Congress has ousted President Dina Boluarte for "moral incapacity," plunging the country's fragile democracy into deeper uncertainty. John Otis Russian and French puppet shows were pushed off air after satirizing those in power The creators of beloved political puppet shows in France and Russia feel déjà vu over the Jimmy Kimmel saga, as they recall being shut down for displeasing the powerful. Charles Maynes First privately funded uranium enrichment plant in U.S. to be built in Kentucky A California-based firm plans to build the first privately funded uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky amid efforts to bolster the country's domestic uranium enrichment. Derek Operle Channing Tatum is utterly winning as a real-life robber in 'Roofman' Channing Tatum plays a real-life robber who hid out in a Toys"R"Us in the new movie Roofman. Bob Mondello Prev 789 of 1645 Next Sponsored
Politics Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports President Trump threatened to place an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a recession. The Associated Press
Health AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices. Sydney Lupkin
Friday Evening Headlines Starbucks to lay off nearly 1,000 more local employees, healthcare costs could double for some WA residents, and the Mariners are set to play their most important game in two decades. Patricia Murphy
For the first time, the Vashon Island water taxi is running on Saturdays It’s a new era for the Vashon Island water taxi: Boats are now running on Saturdays. The one-year pilot project has islanders excited for more service on the weekends. Casey Martin
Elections Oyster farmer and veteran Graham Platner hopes his message lands with Maine voters In Maine, oyster farmer and military veteran Graham Platner has become something of a phenomenon in his bid to topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins in next year's midterm election. Steve Mistler
Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with a new stripped-down album, 'Fatal Optimist' Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date. Elle Mannion
Latin America Peru's president was impeached. Her replacement has also been plagued by scandal Peru's Congress has ousted President Dina Boluarte for "moral incapacity," plunging the country's fragile democracy into deeper uncertainty. John Otis
Russian and French puppet shows were pushed off air after satirizing those in power The creators of beloved political puppet shows in France and Russia feel déjà vu over the Jimmy Kimmel saga, as they recall being shut down for displeasing the powerful. Charles Maynes
First privately funded uranium enrichment plant in U.S. to be built in Kentucky A California-based firm plans to build the first privately funded uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky amid efforts to bolster the country's domestic uranium enrichment. Derek Operle
Channing Tatum is utterly winning as a real-life robber in 'Roofman' Channing Tatum plays a real-life robber who hid out in a Toys"R"Us in the new movie Roofman. Bob Mondello