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“This is the first recorded moose sighting from within Mount Rainier National Park and southwestern Washington,” an accompanying caption read. “Yes, I know that’s a lot of exclamation points, but we are really excited about this sighting!” The enthusiasm has been shared by Facebook users.“This is awesome!! What a beautiful creature,” said one user in response to the post. “This is amazing news!!!!!” said another. Moose have been identified as a Priority Species by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)....

The Blues will likely spend over £120 million in the transfer market for the second season running, while at the same time recalling some of the many players presently out on loan. Well done, Chelsea, but you had it easy! Diego Costa looks likely to leave, with Tianjin Quanjian interested in a £76m deal for the club’s leading scorer. The move will also likely make the Spain striker the world’s highest-paid player, particularly as there is likely to be an intense battle for his services, with three other Chinese Super League clubs also interested....

Morata sat out the trip to Huddersfield Town in December with a back injury and, despite returning to the line-up in the following game against Southampton, the persistence of the issue has seen him forced back to the sidelines. Conte confirmed the Spain international will not be in the squad when the Blues look to bounce back from successive Premier League defeats to Bournemouth and Watford against West Brom on Monday....

Now, the Mid-American Conference and commissioner Jon Steinbrecher are looking to take the next step with a branding initiative launched as part of MAC Media Day on Wednesday. MORE: SN Preseason Top 25 | Bowl projections for 2015-16 | Ranking divisons, 1 to 16 The MAC launched a custom microsite aptly named GetSomeMACtion.com, which tells success stories with school-specific social activations for its members. “It’s a branding initiative for the next couple years,” Steinbrecher told Sporting News....

Fifty-seven percent of poll respondents said they approved of his handling of the pandemic, while 43 percent said they disapprove. Biden’s ratings in August were similar, but as recently as July, about two-thirds of Americans indicated that they approved of his handling of the virus, the Associated Press reported. The poll also touched on other aspects of Biden’s leadership during the pandemic. When asked about the president’s plan to require most workers to get the COVID vaccine or regular tests, a slim majority of respondents, 51 percent, said that they supported the measure....

Twelve U.S. service members were killed and 15 were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive near the airport on Thursday. Officials believe the Islamic State militant group’s Khorasan branch (ISIS-K) was behind the attack, a threat they warned about hours earlier, and the military is working with the Taliban to try to prevent more attacks. “If we can find who is associated with this we will go after them,” McKenzie told reporters....

Colin Kahl, the Department of Defense undersecretary for policy, said at a briefing on Monday: “It’s safe to suggest that the Russians have probably taken 70 or 80,000 casualties in less than six months,” adding, “That is a combination of killed in action and wounded in action and that number might be a little lower, a little higher, but I think that’s kind of in the ballpark.” He described the number of Russian casualties as “remarkable” given that Russia’s forces have “achieved none of Vladimir Putin’s objectives” since invading Ukraine....

Senator Sheldon White (D-RI) and Texas Congressman Lloyd Doggett led the group of 120 Democrats in the House and Senate in calling for the tax cut to be reversed. “As we continue to debate allocating limited resources to stimulate the economy, we write to bring your attention to costly tax breaks for so-called ’net operating losses’ that Republicans tucked into the CARES Act,” the letter read. CARES—the Coronavirus Relief and Economic Security Act—was a $2....

The outcome of both Senate races on January 5 will determine the balance of power in the nation’s capital when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20. The presidential election on November 3 that denied President Donald Trump his bid for re-election marked the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won Georgia since 1992. The state’s incumbent Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, also did not receive the 50 percent majorities needed to win their general election races....

The United States precipitated the chaos by invading Iraq in the first place. Yet Washington has not met its moral responsibility to aid the refugees. That said, the problem far exceeds Washington’s abilities. Indeed, the crisis has further internationalized the Iraq dilemma; almost every country in the Middle East shelters fleeing Iraqis, with Syria and Jordan bearing the heaviest load. No one nation can deal with the problem on its own....

Ukraine on Thursday said that it had struck the flagship Moskva cruiser with a missile. Russia offered a conflicting report, saying ammunition exploded on board the ship and then that poor weather caused it to sink. The Pentagon on Friday said that it had concluded Ukraine struck the Russian warship with a missile, causing it ultimately to sink. At 610 feet in length, the Moskva was the third-largest in Russia’s fleet....

The poll asked respondents if they believe the federal government should restrict immigration by doing such things as closing the border, preventing legal immigrants from bringing their extended family into the U.S., banning the entry of seasonal workers and banning the entry of asylum seekers and refugees. Seventy-eight percent of respondents said they think the U.S. should temporarily close the U.S. border except for essential travel, while 14 percent disagreed....

The San Francisco Chronicle broke the news about Schlafer’s distinction, and the fact that it sells the priciest gas in the U.S. was confirmed to the paper by Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at the gas-tracking, travel and navigation app GasBuddy. De Haan told the Chronicle that GasBuddy has been aware of Schalfer’s and its prices for some time. He reportedly wrote in an email that “it appears to be priced much, much above the average for as long as we’ve tracked this station....

Now, he stands alone atop the list. Patterson broke a three-way tie between himself, Josh Cribbs and Leon Washington during the Falcons vs. Bears game on Sunday. He took a kickoff in his own end zone with 4:31 left in the second quarter and returned it 103 yards for a touchdown. The return touchdown was the ninth of Patterson’s career. It marked his first since he logged a 104-yard kick return touchdown in 2020....

Date Ranges: July 23 - August 23 Element: Fire Ruling Planet: Sun Most Compatible with: Aries, Sagittarius, Libra Leo even manages to rank high on some online popularity polls! Date Ranges: November 22 - December 21 Element: Fire Ruling Planet: Jupiter Most Compatible with: Aries, Gemini, Libra Date Ranges: February 19 - March 20 Element: Water Ruling Planet: Neptune Most Compatible with: Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio Date Ranges: March 21 - April 19 Element: Fire Ruling Planet: Mars Most Compatible with: Leo, Gemini, Sagittarius...

The poll, which was conducted June 23 to June 25 and surveyed 806 registered voters and found that 57 percent of those surveyed oppose reducing police funding, while 37 percent oppose the idea. The same poll showed that 60 percent of those surveyed opposed defunding the police, versus 30 percent who supported the notion of defunding. Opposition to defunding the police department showed that Democrat, Republican and Independent voters were largely unified against the idea....

While Curry’s performance against Boston was thrilling to watch, it didn’t even come close to his best outing in the NBA Finals — or the most productive performance in the history of the championship series. Which players have scored the most points in a single NBA Finals game? Let’s check out the list. MORE: Explaining origin of NBA championship trophy Most points scored by a Warriors player in an NBA Finals game You only need to know three names for this category: Curry, Rick Barry and Kevin Durant....

Residents in those five regions will be able to return to work in another week. COVID-19 cases and deaths across Russia remain high as the country’s coronavirus task force reported 39,400 infections and 1,190 deaths on Monday. Russia has the number of COVID deaths in Europe. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was “too early to draw a conclusion” about whether the non-working period was sufficient in significantly containing the virus....

According to a press release from the Greenwich Police Department in Connecticut on Wednesday, officers obtained an arrest warrant for 62-year-old Janita M. Philips, a Florida resident, for the murder of her child in 1986. Police said that on May 16, 1986, “an infant male child was found deceased inside a sanitation truck that had just emptied a dumpster at the apartment building located at 27 Havemeyer Place in Greenwich....

In a Reddit post that includes a screenshot of what appears to be a Facebook post from a private group, an anonymous mother exclaimed that she was “sick and tired” of nannies she deemed unreliable, and scoffed at the notion of paying more than $10 per hour for childcare. Published on Reddit’s r/antiwork, the post has received more than 51,000 votes and 6,700 comments. Beginning the re-posted Facebook post with the explanation that she is searching for a third nanny for her 1-year-old son, the upset mother wrote that she was reeling from other nannies who “ghosted” her family, and lamented over nannies who weren’t used to her corporate work responsibilities....