With the smoke clearing out, our asthmatic otter can breathe easy

Ross Reynolds fills in for Bill Radke, discussing the news of the week with Joni Balter, Rob McKenna and Gyasi Ross.

You, like Mishka the asthmatic sea otter, might be relieved at the improvement in air quality. But are smoky summers the new normal for Seattle? During an eventful hour on Tuesday, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty to felonies just as former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was indicted for eight counts of financial crimes. What does this mean for the president?

Gun rights have been in the news this week, from the fight over 3-D printed firearms to Republican State Representative Matt Shea lobbing grenades about the news media over the right to bear arms.

Russian hackers are having a productive summer, attempting to tamper with Microsoft voting systems, state voter rolls, and now hacking conservative think tanks. At a time when the president’s lawyer insists that truth isn’t truth, how damaging is this sort of fraud?

Homeless camp removal is up in Seattle, but the city’s plans to resettle people are falling far short. A look at some possible solutions.

And orcas are starving. Their main food source, Chinook salmon, is dwindling in number. Stop eating Chinook salmon: problem solved, right? Not so fast.