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The Morning Dispatch
Seattle's Morning Paper · Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · No. 6
Page 1: Front Page
Trump Says Russia 'Has Been Fine' on Ukraine, Faults Zelenskyy
President says Monday he is open to meeting Putin and Xi at next month's APEC summit in China, mainly on nuclear weapons
President Donald Trump in his official portrait, 2025 (file photo). Photo: Daniel Torok / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
KYIV, Ukraine. President Trump on Monday, Oct. 19, put fresh blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war with Russia, saying Zelenskyy is "not helping matters much" and that it is time for someone else to negotiate for Ukraine. In the same remarks he said Russia "has been fine on Ukraine."
Iran Offers Plan to Reopen Hormuz; Trump Rejects It
Qatar says talks go on as U.S. and Israeli leaders hint at new strikes
DOHA, Qatar. Iran's foreign minister said Monday, Oct. 19, that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen within days if the United States met Tehran's conditions, but President Trump has rejected the Iranian plan, CBS News reported. Qatar, a mediator, said on Tuesday that negotiations were still going on.
Trump Approval Falls to 31%, Lowest of Either Term
Reuters/Ipsos poll out Monday comes two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms; a Post-ABC survey also finds a record low
WASHINGTON. President Trump's approval rating has fallen to 31%, the lowest of his political career, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Monday, Oct. 19. The survey comes two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, which will decide control of the House and Senate.
Amazon Jumps 5% as Morgan Stanley Bets on Its Cloud Arm
Bank names Seattle company its top pick Monday, sees AWS revenue up 47% in 2027
SEATTLE. Shares of Seattle-based Amazon rose more than 5% in trading Monday, Oct. 19, after Morgan Stanley named the company its top stock pick, GuruFocus reported. The bank kept its Overweight rating on the stock.
City Council Votes Today on Overnight RV Parking Limits
Permit plan would steer vehicle residents to industrial areas, with moves every 72 hours
SEATTLE. The Seattle City Council is set to vote at its 2 p.m. meeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, on a package that would restrict overnight parking of RVs on city streets and create a permit system for people living in their vehicles. The package includes Council Bills 121283 and 121281 and Resolution 32216.
Barber Hailed as Hero After Car Strikes Australian Lawmaker
Independent MP Helen Haines in critical condition after Monday attack; driver charged
WANGARATTA, Australia. Australian independent lawmaker Helen Haines, 65, was in critical condition after being struck by a Toyota LandCruiser outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria, on Monday afternoon, Oct. 19, local time. She had surgery overnight at a Melbourne hospital. Police allege the attack was targeted.
In Kansas, Trump Warns U.S. Will 'Burn' Like France
President stumps for Sen. Roger Marshall; Democratic challenger points to gas and diesel prices
PARK CITY, Kan. President Trump rallied supporters near Wichita on Monday, Oct. 19, for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, warning that Democrats would bring to America the kind of unrest now gripping France. Reuters reported that he offered no evidence for the claim.
Shoppers Wary as Stores Roll Out Digital Price Tags
Walmart says it prices 'the product, not the person'; states move to limit use of shoppers' data
NEW YORK. Digital price tags are replacing paper ones in American grocery aisles, and many shoppers are uneasy about what the technology could mean for what they pay, according to an Associated Press report published by Fortune on Oct. 18.
Search called off Sunday after 16 were rescued from a boat that sank Oct. 16 off Ensenada
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18. The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday suspended its search for an estimated 11 people missing after a boat sank off Ensenada, Mexico, about 140 miles off Baja California, NBC 7 San Diego reported.
Nearly 2,400 arrested and almost 1,000 police and firefighters hurt, ministry says
PARIS. France spent Monday surveying looted shops, burned buildings and hundreds of injured officers after a weekend of rioting across the country, and President Emmanuel Macron promised legal action against those responsible. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said nearly 1,800 people were arrested on Saturday alone, almost half of them in Paris, Al Jazeera reported.
Japan Launches Mission to Bring Back Soil From Mars Moon
MMX lifted off Monday on an H3 rocket, bound for Phobos
Phobos, the mission's target, seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008 (file photo). Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
TOKYO. Japan launched a spacecraft Monday that is meant to land on Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, scoop up its soil and bring it back to Earth. The Martian Moons eXploration probe, or MMX, lifted off at 3:41 p.m. EDT from the Tanegashima Space Center. It rode the tenth flight of Japan's H3 rocket.
Seoul Vows 'Resolute Punishment' Over North's Border Threats
Kim Yo Jong threatens loudspeakers and more strike weapons near the DMZ
SEOUL. South Korea's Defense Ministry warned Tuesday that it would punish North Korea "resolutely" if Pyongyang uses its latest threats as cover for new provocations along the heavily armed border. The ministry voiced "grave concern" after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim Jong Un, threatened to deploy more tactical strike weapons near the frontier and restart loudspeaker broadcasts.
Indonesia Deploys 9,500 for Protests on Prabowo's Anniversary
Students plan Tuesday marches over forest fires, a stock rout and a weak rupiah
JAKARTA, Indonesia. Jakarta authorities are putting 9,505 security personnel on the streets Tuesday for student protests marking two years since President Prabowo Subianto took office. The force includes 7,660 police officers and 1,540 soldiers, along with city staff and security guards.
Havana ties charge to a February speedboat raid; U.S. has denied any role
HAVANA. Cuban law enforcement officials accused the United States on Monday of letting terrorists operate freely on American soil, tying the charge to a February speedboat raid that ended in a deadly gun battle at sea. Prosecutor Edward Roberts said people and groups in the U.S. were still supplying property, transport and weapons for such attacks.
What It Means: Washington, Kyiv and the Road to APEC
By Claude W. Hargrove, Editor in Chief
On Monday, the president of the United States said Russia "has been fine on Ukraine." He said it while Ukrainians were still counting the damage from one of the heaviest Russian barrages in weeks. Readers deserve a plain account of what changed Monday, and of what did not.
First, the words. President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "doesn't know what he's talking about" and that "it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine." PBS NewsHour also reported him saying the United States has given a lot to Ukraine and gotten nothing back. A week earlier, on Oct. 10, he had said Ukraine should find a new leader. He did not repeat that Monday.
Page 5: Business and Technology
Tech Stocks Bounce Back as Chipmakers Lead
Nasdaq rises 1.1% Monday after a week of selling
NEW YORK. Technology shares climbed on Wall Street on Monday, Oct. 19, lifting the Nasdaq composite 290.85 points, or 1.11%, to 26,430.89 as investors returned to the chip and artificial intelligence stocks they had sold off the week before.
Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's British AI Data Center
Exit comes weeks before Nscale's planned $3 billion stock offering
LONDON. Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to serve as the anchor tenant of Nscale's first British data center for artificial intelligence, a planned site at Loughton in Essex, The Telegraph reported Sunday, Oct. 18. Bloomberg News followed with its own report citing the newspaper.
Analyst lifted rating to neutral late Friday; shares rose 2.4% Monday
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Intel shares rose 2.4% on Monday, Oct. 19, after JPMorgan upgraded the chipmaker to neutral from underweight in a research note issued late Friday, keeping a price target of $85.
NEW YORK. Netflix reports its third-quarter results after the stock market closes Tuesday, Oct. 20, opening one of the busiest weeks of the earnings season. Analysts expect profit of about 82 cents a share, up from 59 cents a year earlier.
Nvidia Braces for Shakeout Among Small Cloud Renters, Report Says
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Executives expect only 7 to 10 of the hundreds of small companies that rent out artificial intelligence computing power to survive the next few years, The Information reported Sunday, Oct. 18. Nvidia, a big supplier to these firms, has reportedly begun offering shorter-term credit support. The chipmaker has also signed some $20 billion in data center leases of its own to pass on to customers, the report said.
Brent near $110 Monday morning, up nearly 80% in a year
NEW YORK. Oil stayed well above $100 a barrel on Monday, Oct. 19. Brent crude, the global benchmark, sold for about $110.10 a barrel at 9 a.m. Eastern time, according to Fortune, little changed from the previous morning.
Sea-Tac has logged barely a tenth of an inch this month
SEATTLE. Seattle is on its way to one of the driest Octobers in more than 130 years of record keeping. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had measured just 0.13 inch of rain for the month as of Monday, Oct. 19, KIRO Newsradio meteorologist Ted Buehner reported.
Plaintiffs Plan Appeal After Costco Tequila Suit Is Tossed
Federal judge in Seattle dismissed the case Friday, Oct. 16, deferring to Mexico's regulator
SEATTLE. Lawyers for shoppers who accused Costco of selling watered-down tequila said Monday, Oct. 19, that they will appeal after a federal judge in Seattle threw out their proposed class action on Friday, Oct. 16.
REDMOND. A Tesla crashed into the side of the Onyx Apartments on 156th Avenue NE in Redmond on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18, forcing the residents of one apartment from their home. No one was hurt.
FORKS. A 49-year-old Forks man was booked into the Clallam County Jail early Monday on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder after a woman in his family was shot at a home in Forks on Sunday night, Oct. 18.
Opens Thursday with 'Time Warp,' a Rocky Horror documentary
TACOMA. The Tacoma Film Festival marks its 20th year this week, opening Thursday, Oct. 22, at The Grand Cinema with four days of documentaries, short films and narrative features from the Puget Sound region and around the world.
Earshot Jazz Enters Final Week of Coltrane-Davis Salute
38th festival runs through Oct. 25; tickets $10 to $125
SEATTLE. The 38th Earshot Jazz Festival enters its last week Tuesday, Oct. 20, with Christian Sands on stage at 7:30 p.m. The festival, which honors the 100th birthdays of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, runs through Sunday, Oct. 25.
Free First Hill museum resumes hours Oct. 24; show runs into April
SEATTLE. The Frye Art Museum on First Hill reopens to the public Saturday, Oct. 24, after closing to install its next exhibition, 'My Body Is a Basket.' The show runs through April 11, 2027.
Show closes Oct. 25; 'Meet Me at the Henry' party set for Oct. 24
SEATTLE. Visitors have until Sunday, Oct. 25, to see 'Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́' at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. The exhibition opened March 14.
Seattle Rep's 'Eureka Day' Takes On a School Vaccine Fight
Tony Award-winning play runs through Nov. 15
SEATTLE. Seattle Rep is staging 'Eureka Day,' the Tony Award-winning play about a school torn apart over vaccines, through Sunday, Nov. 15. The production opened Sept. 24.
Pratt Fine Arts Center Marks 50 Years at Bainbridge Museum
Show of students and teachers runs through Jan. 31
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND. The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art is showing 'Pratt Fine Arts Center @ 50,' an exhibition marking half a century of the Seattle art school. The show opened Oct. 2 and runs through Jan. 31, 2027.
Charbonnet, Bradford Could Return Sunday vs. Chiefs
Macdonald says Monday the guard is in line to play after missing five games
Lumen Field, the Seahawks' home stadium, in 2023 (file photo). Photo: PCN02WPS / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
RENTON. The Seahawks could get two key players back Sunday against the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs at Lumen Field, coach Mike Macdonald said Monday, Oct. 19. Right guard Anthony Bradford returned to practice, and running back Zach Charbonnet may play for the first time since a knee injury in January.
Kraken Host Red Wings Tonight After Rough Road Trip
Seattle, 5-3-1, lost 8-3 at Florida on Saturday and 4-3 at Tampa Bay Oct. 15
SEATTLE. The Seattle Kraken return home Tuesday night, Oct. 20, to face the Detroit Red Wings at Climate Pledge Arena, ending a five-game road trip that finished with a lopsided loss.
Rays Beat Guardians, Will Meet Brewers in World Series
Tampa Bay wins Game 6 Monday, 7-3, to take the ALCS 4-2; Milwaukee swept the Dodgers Oct. 15
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 on Monday night, Oct. 19, at Tropicana Field to win the American League Championship Series four games to two and earn a place in the World Series.
Mercado scores twice in Sunday's 3-1 win at Chicago; two games left
CHICAGO. Maddie Mercado scored twice as the Seattle Reign beat the Chicago Stars 3-1 on Sunday, Oct. 18, in Chicago, lifting Seattle back into eighth place, the last playoff spot in the National Women's Soccer League.
RENTON. Seahawks tight end Elijah Arroyo will miss "a significant amount of time" with a shoulder injury, coach Mike Macdonald said Monday, Oct. 19. Arroyo was hurt late in the second quarter of the Oct. 15 loss at Denver while chasing a fumble.
