Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan addresses a news conference in Seattle in early September. The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a recall effort that blamed Durkan for the Seattle Police Department’s broad use of tear gas on protesters in early June. (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press)
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan addresses a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 2. (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press)
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Another house sold quickly in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Sunday, July 12, 2020.
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Seattle Seahawks unning back Chris Carson rushes against the Dallas Cowboys during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) SE159 SE159
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CARKEEK SEWAGE OVERFLOW 011211 Treated sewage wastewater at the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) treatment plant at Carkeek Park in Seattle. Operations Supervisor Karl Zimmer walks past the overflow in January of this year after a rain storm and snow melt. This facility only operates during heavy rain storms when West Point can’t handle the flow. 108293
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A customer enters a Bartell Drugs in South Lake Union, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Seattle.
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President Donald Trump’s physician Dr. Sean Conley, accompanied by other medical staff members, provide an update on Trump’s condition at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda Md., Oct. 4, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) XNYT24 XNYT24 XNYT24
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Midfielder Kaya Hanson, 15, talks with teammates on the sidelines before practice with Seattle United’s Elite Girls National League at Magnuson Park in Seattle Friday September 4, 2020. Players now mask up when not playing and line up at socially distant intervals, much different than the normal huddles you would see in pre-pandemic times. 214955
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Negotiations between Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for an additional coronavirus aid package were abruptly halted last week by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA406 DCSA406

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Jack Anderson of Seattle, who died Sept. 28 of congestive heart failure at age 84, was one of main organizers to repeal Washington’s sodomy law in 1976.

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FILE – In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai, center front, and his delegation attend the opening session of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, in Doha, Qatar. Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of the U.S.’s troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas. If that withdrawal happens, it would be months ahead of schedule and the tweet made no reference to a Taliban promise to fight terrorist groups — a previous pre-requisite for an American withdrawal. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File) CAITH106 CAITH106

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Midfielder Kaya Hanson, 15, talks with teammates on the sidelines before practice with Seattle United’s Elite Girls National League at Magnuson Park in Seattle Friday September 4, 2020. Players now mask up when not playing and line up at socially distant intervals, much different than the normal huddles you would see in pre-pandemic times. 214955

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Retired bus driver Robert Duncan said he is flooded with memories as he visits one of the old buses he once drove — a 1990 Breda Dual Power bus, which had the option to kill its diesel mode when entering Seattle’s downtown tunnels, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 in Tukwila at the Metro Employees Historic Vehicle Association vintage bus yard. 214654

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Seattle Storm forward Alysha Clark celebrates her game-winning shot with guard Jewell Loyd (24) and forward Breanna Stewart (30) during the second half of Game 1 of a WNBA basketball semifinal round playoff series against the Minnesota Lynx Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Bradenton, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

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Macklemore performs during the Gemini Tour at KeyArena in Seattle on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. The Saturday show is also sold out at KeyArena in Seattle, before he continues his tour in Brisbane, Australia on Feb. 2, 2018. 204639

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Hikers walk along the Skyline Trail as it crosses Myrtle Falls this week. Fall color is at its peak at Mt. Rainier National Park. The lack of snow this fall has allowed the fall colors to progress into warm tones of red and yellow. Temperatures in the 60s have brought many hikers to the Paradise side of the mountain. The forecast predicts sunny skies this week turning to clouds and rain on Friday. Snow is in the forecast next week. Photographed on October 5, 2020. 214933
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Chua Saechao CQ works to transplant Laotian Hot Peppers from her P-Patch plot at Marra Farm in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Saechao said the peppers won’t survive at Marra Farm with autumn’s colder weather and was transferring the plants to a better location at her home. LO 215135
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A fresh coat of rain droplets sit on red leaves as the leaves begin to turn colors for the fall season at the Bellevue Botanical Garden in Bellevue on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 LO 215267
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To show its support for the Seattle Storm as it enters Game 1 of the WNBA Finals against the Las Vegas Aces, Amazon lit up one of its downtown spheres in green. Game one of the WNBA Finals is Friday. Photographed Thursday, October 1, 2020 215250
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