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Teachers hope noble cause isn’t lost amid all the noise
M U I R E L E M E N T A R Y | Teachers’ Black Lives Matter shirts drew a huge outcry. Now they’re trying to bring the focus back to positive role models. Fight night in Vegas: How ugly will debate get?
ELECTION 2016
Key points in final Clinton, Trump showdown
By GREG BLUESTEIN
The Atlanta Journal­Constitution (TNS)
LAS VEGAS — The final presidential debate Wednesday
could be the last chance for Republican Donald Trump to shake up the dynamics of a race that’s tilting toward Demo­
crat Hillary Clinton.
Flush with fundraising cash and rising poll numbers, Clinton has largely vanished from the campaign trail as Trump deals with the latest chaos rocking his campaign.
The fallout from his incendiary remarks in the “Access Hollywood” videotape prompted a string of women to come forward with claims he sexually harassed or assault­
ed them — and dozens of high­profile Republicans to aban­
don his campaign. He trails Clinton in both national polls and must­win battleground states.
Trump has responded with a scorched­earth strategy that makes him an even more unpredictable foe. With little left to lose, he’s attacked Clinton and fellow Republicans with a simmering fury that could both enliven his core supporters and turn off undecided voters.
Clinton, meanwhile, must wrestle with whether to con­
See > DEBATE, A7
Mystery swirls around Assange at Ecuadorean embassy
F O U R Y E A R S O N | Ecuador cut internet access for the WikiLeaks founder living in its London embassy, amid anger over more leaks, worries about his health.
Seattle Times news services
BETTINA HANSEN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
DeShawn Jackson teaches special education at John Muir Elementary in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood. His plan last month for hundreds of black men to visit for a day was derailed after hateful messages poured in.
ed, including Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins and City Councilmember Bruce Harrell.
he goal of the Friday morning event at Seattle’s
Jackson invited hundreds of black men to visit the John Muir Elementary last month was sup­
Mount Baker school that day last month to greet stu­
posed to be simple: Show black men in a posi­
dents as they walked in, visit classrooms and play with tive light. the kids during recess — and he hoped the men would That’s all teacher DeShawn Jackson wanted to do for commit to future visits.
his school’s students — let them see black men in a way What happened since has been anything but simple.
counter to the negative images they see on television or First, after news of the event was publicized in local
the internet. It was supposed to be similar to an event media, some national conservative outlets picked it up, last year at South Shore K­8, where 200 men participat­
See > JOHN MUIR, A8
By PAIGE CORNWELL
Seattle Times staff reporter
T
Many teachers
have started wear­
ing their Black
Lives Matter shirts
to school every
Monday at John
Muir Elementary.
Thousands in the
Seattle and High­
line districts will
wear similar
shirts to school
Wednesday, in a
show of support
for Muir.
WASHINGTON — The digital mega­
phone of WikiLeaks founder Julian As­
sange was silenced temporarily this week. Ecuador’s government acknowledged on
Tuesday that it had “temporarily restrict­
ed” Assange’s internet access at its embassy in London, where he has been holed up for more than four years after skipping bail to Julian avoid extradition to Sweden over sex­
Assange
crime allegations, a position which — until in an Oct. 4 now — hasn’t prevented him from continu­ video link ing to play a pivotal role in exposing state secrets and backroom trade deals.
Since early October, WikiLeaks has released more than 12,000 emails, some of them taken from the account of John Podesta, campaign chairman for Democratic presi­
dential candidate Hillary Clinton. They’re part of a purport­
ed trove of 50,000 emails that the group says reveal the inner workings of the Clinton campaign, including how it See > ASSANGE, A5
Islamic State recalibrates
message as group loses
ground on battlefield
By ANNE BARNARD
The New York Times
BETTINA HANSEN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
BEIRUT — The Islamic State group’s leaders had long promised their followers an apocalyptic battle — foretold, some believe, by the Prophet Muhammad — in an other­
wise nondescript village they controlled in northern Syria.
But the warriors of the self­declared caliphate lost the village, Dabiq, in just a few hours over the weekend as Syrian rebels, backed by Turkey, closed in. To soften the symbolic blow, the Islamic State switched rhetorical gears,
declaring that the real Dabiq battle would come some other time.
The about­face was part of a larger repositioning as the
Islamic State group loses ground, not only in Syria but also in Iraq, where forces backed by the United States See > ISIS, A4
Earth’s 16­month streak of record high temperatures has ended, NOAA says. But it was still the second­hottest September ever measured, and only a few hundredths of a degree cooler than the record, set last year. Story > A2
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