Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, right, and defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. watch from the sidelines during the first quarter Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021, in Seattle. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, right, and defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. watch from the sidelines during the team's game against the Chicago Bears last month in Seattle. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
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A Bellevue home slid off its foundation and partially collapsed Monday. Bellevue police said water gushed down a hillside from an unknown source. (Bellevue Police Department)
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Human sorters remove anything that is not paper or cardboard on a line at King County’s Recology’s Material Recovery Facility in Seattle Monday, November 15, 2021. Ten to 15 percent of the items that people put into their blue recycle bins are not recyclable and have to go to landfills.. People who work on the assembly lines spend a lot of time in quality control and do their best to remove these items. Monday is ‘America Recycles’ day and King County Solid Waste Division wants to remind everyone as we head into the busy holiday shopping, shipping, packaging, and cooking season that plastic bags, wrap, and other non-recyclable items should not be put in the recycling bin. Items that belong in the bins are clean and dry hard plastics, paper, glass, cardboard and metals. Plastic bags and wraps should not be placed in recycling bins and can damage or temporarily shut down the equipment. It usually happens at least once a day and several hours every night are removing plastic bags and other items that have wound around the paper screens. “Wish” recycling (items that people try to recycle but shouldn’t) also cause problems with the machinery at the facility. People in the northwest are generally good recyclers and because of the low contamination rates in recycled items recyclers buy the recycled baled items. Almost all of of the baled items end up in domestic markets in the Untied States, Canada and Mexico. 218821
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Survivor services advocate Asha Potter looks at clothes to give to participants of the Holiday Shop event at the LifeWire office in Bellevue on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. LifeWire is an organization that offers support services from domestic violence survivors. During the holidays LifeWire has their Holiday Shop event through donation allow survivors to choose from an array of toys, warm clothing and household items. Due to the pandemic, the Holiday Shop event has gone virtual. 219017
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Blandy Inzunza, a 22-year-old Seattle University student, poses with her two children, Kaelani, 7, (l) and Mia, 3 (turns 4 on Dec. 10) in the Student Center on the S. U. campus Friday, December 3, 2021. Blandy has gotten help from Treehouse since she was a teenager in foster care. She is the only one of eight siblings to have graduated from high school, and says she would not have done so with Treehouse’s support. The organization now helps her with groceries, gas, clothes and moral support as she takes pre-med classes at Seattle University. 218958
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Maxim Isaev plays around with his five-month-old son Adam in the kitchen of the family’s Bothell home Friday, November 26, 2021. He, his wife and their two young children are a family of asylum-seekers from Chechnya. They live in a transitional shelter provided by Hopelink. They’re unable to work because of their immigration status and they don’t have health insurance — Hopelink fills in the gaps. 218911
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Thursday, December 10, 2021. Fund For Those In Need. looking down at the iPad, Yuriko Ueda works out with the ACRS zoom call to exercise with instructor Lily Singh. Earlier this year ACRS launched the zoom exercise classes for older clients. 219031
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Politics

FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to some of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Rudy Giuliani Sidney Powell stands behind. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) WX122 WX122

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The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. The House passed a repackaged set of voting rights bills on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, pushing past Republican opposition and hurriedly sending the legislation to the Senate to force a showdown over the fate of the measures and the reach of the filibuster. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times) XNYT50 XNYT50
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee delivers his 2022 State of the State address at the Capitol in Olympia on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022.

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Business & Tech

FILE – The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013 the during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, for $68.7 billion to gain access to blockbuster games including Call of Duty and Candy Crush. The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide it building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) NYBZ203 NYBZ203

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The beached barge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Jan. 11, 2022. The barge crashed ashore during a November storm, initially raising fear that it might collide with the historic truss bridge over Burrard Inlet in the background. (Martin Tessler/The New York Times)

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Coronavirus

FILE – People wait in line at COVID-19 testing site in Times Square on Dec. 3, 2021, in New York. The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File) NYAG202 NYAG202

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Daniel J. Evans, Seattle, State Representative; Republican nominee for governor Evans Prefers ‘Gov. Dan’ Washington’s governor-elect Thursday solved one of his weightier problems: It will be Gov. Dan Evans, not Gov. Daniel J. Evans said he preferred use of the less formal name in the news media. Credit: Robert Heilman,. 1964

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Ryan Donato scores in the 3rd period to tie the game with Chicago at 2. The Chicago Blackhawks played the Seattle Kraken Monday, January 17, 2022 at Climate Pledge Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219270

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Washington’s Nate Roberts puts on the emphatic jam as the Huskies become the aggressors to strt the game against Cal. The bucket gave Washington a quick 4-0 lead on the Golden Bears. The California Golden Bears played the University of Washington in NCAA Men’s basketball Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Alaska Airlines Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219287
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Russell Wilson takes a victory lap around State Farm Stadium after the Seahawks defeated the Arizona Cardinals 38-30 i the season finale The Seattle Seahawks played the Arizona Cardinals in the regular season finale for both teams Sunday, January 9, 2022 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. 219255
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First time on skis, Sujal Bhandari gets instructions in bending and learning control from John Thomsen at the Mini Mountain Indoor Ski Center in Bellevue. They’re on an angled moving carpet controlled by Thomsen. Sujal is seven. Ref to more photos online Indoor ski lessons on a moving carpet at Mini Mountain in Bellevue. LO linesonly Saturday January 8, 2020 219275
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