A private fireworks show set off from a barge is seen from West Seattle across Puget Sound on Sept. 16 in Seattle. The question of who commissioned the show is a mysterious one, but public documents and news archives lend some clues. (Courtesy of John David Skerratt)
(Courtesy of John David Skerratt)
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Who was behind that big Puget Sound fireworks show?

Luxury yachts, shell companies and secretive trusts offer clues to the sponsor of a spectacular and surprising fireworks show off Bainbridge Island. WATCH

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President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) MIEV454 MIEV454

Biden urges striking auto workers to “stick with it” in picket line visit unparalleled in history WATCH

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A plane heads towards the third runway just past the elevated lights that cross over Hwy. 518 just north of SEA, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Thursday, January 20, 2022. Shot from S. 144th Way near Des Moines Memorial Drive S. 219387

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Nation & World

FILE – This Wednesday, April 14, 2016, file photo, shows a push-button landline telephone, in Whitefield, Maine. According to a U.S. government survey released Thursday, May 4, 2017, homes and apartments with only cellphone service exceeded 50 percent for the first time, reaching 50.8 percent for the last six months of 2016. On the flip side, 45.9 percent of U.S. households still have landline phones, including newer internet-based services common with cable TV and internet packages, while the remaining households have no phone service at all. More than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cellphone service. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) NYBZ442

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