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EL NIÑO TO DELIVER CALMER HURRICANE YEAR
A developing El Niño is likely to bring a quieter-than-average Atlantic hurricane season, top forecasters announced Thursday.
Meteorologists from Colorado State University predict 11 tropical storms will form, with four becoming hurricanes.
A typical year averages about 12 tropical storms, with seven spinning into hurricanes, based on weather records that date to 1950. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
SUIT ALLEGES SEATTLE MAYOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTED TEEN
A man is suing Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, accusing him of child sexual assault over several years in the 1980s, according to the Seattle Times.
The 46-year-old Kent, Wash., man filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court on Thursday claiming Murray “raped and molested him.”
According to the Seattle Times, the man “alleges Murray sexually abused the crack-cocaine addicted teen on numerous occasions for payments of $10 to $20.”
“These false accusations are intended to damage a prominent elected official who has been a defender of vulnerable populations for decades. It is not a coincidence that this shakedown effort comes within weeks of the campaign filing deadline,” said Jeff Reading, a spokesman for Murray.
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The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch and demanded a halt to all missile tests, stressing again that they violate U.N. sanctions and “are significantly increasing tension in the region and beyond.” A press statement agreed to by all 15 members expresses “utmost concern” at North Korea’s “highly destabilizing behavior and flagrant and provocative defiance of the Security Council” by conducting the latest launch less than three weeks after the previous test.
Billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday that he is launching a campaign to try to unseat Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, setting the stage for what could be one of the most expensive races of 2018. Pritzker, an heir to his family’s Hyatt Hotel chain and investor who Forbes estimates is worth $3.4 billion, has the ability to selffinance a campaign that is expected to shatter the more than $100 million spent by the Rauner and former Democratic governor Pat Quinn in the 2014 race.