Mariners outfielder Mitch Haniger heads to the clubhouse following batting practice before Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Oct. 11 in Houston. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
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Mariners

Here’s why Mitch Haniger could return to the Mariners, or leave this offseason

The allure of free agency and a big payday can be exciting for players, but Mitch Haniger has become attached to the Mariners during his six years in Seattle.

Election 2022

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Politics

FILE – President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022. A document purporting to be from the U.S. government and claiming the Treasury Department had information related to the search at Mar-a-Lago was a fabrication. A review of court documents and interviews by The Associated Press shows identical documents were filed in a separate case brought by a federal inmate at a prison medical center in North Carolina.(AP Photo/Steve Helber) WX210 WX210

Mar-a-Lago classified papers held U.S. secrets about Iran and China

Opinion

Alex Fryer
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Abandoning Ukraine would be giving up on principles the West holds dear | Op-Ed, Ambassador of Finland to the U.S.
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Local News

Patty Murray, left, and Tiffany Smiley

Race between Patty Murray and Tiffany Smiley gets closer, new WA Poll shows

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It's not too late to kill the Highway 99 tunnel tolls and save Seattle’s waterfront

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Business & Tech

Top left clockwise: Helen Prowse and her son; Pascaline Cure; Devin Miller; Alexandra Lazarin. (Courtesy of Helen Prowse, Pascaline Cure, Devin Miller and Alexandra Lazari)

Remote work changed their lives. They’re not going back to the office.

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WA in the crosshairs of a ‘decisive decade’ with China

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Nation & World

FILE — President Alexander Lukashenko in Osipovichi, Belarus, on Feb. 17, 2022, during joint military exercises with Russia. Russia is massing thousands of troops in Belarus ahead of what could be the opening of a new front aimed at disrupting the flow of Western military aid from Poland, Ukrainian officials said on Oct. 21, 2022. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) XNYT101 XNYT101

Russian troops in Belarus spur debate over the threat to Ukraine

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Arts & Life

Sara Porkalob, center, as the pro-slavery Edward Rutledge in “1776,” in which the performers identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, at the American Airlines Theater in New York, Sept. 15, 2022. The Broadway revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers, and everything else, writes Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) XNYT180 XNYT180

Seattle’s Sara Porkalob started a firestorm on Broadway. And she was right | Arts Spotlight

Photography

The iconic Seattle Needle in shrouded in smoke as seen from Gas Work Parks on Wednesday afternoon in Seattle, Washington on October 19, 2022.
Local News

Photos: Smoketober continues in Seattle area VIEW

The 16’ bronze statue of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood at the corner of N. 36th St. and Fremont Pl. N. Is all decked out for Halloween, shot Friday, October 14, 2022. 221888
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Seattle Seahawks defensive end Shelby Harris sacks Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray during the fourth quarter. The Seahawks had six sacks on the day. 221865
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Photos: Seahawks host Cardinals in NFC west matchup VIEW

Cori Eischen, who works for the Seattle Mariners, welcomes fane to T-Mobile Parl at the start of the American League Division Series Game 3 of the Seattle Mariners play the Houston Astros on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2022 in Seattle. 221879 221879
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Photos: Mariners vs. Astros in Game 3 of ALDS VIEW