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The looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week

The looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week

Officials say they managed to identify 9,000 fake votes cast in the annual competition, which sees bears at Katmai National Park unwittingly compete to put on the most weight

747 led the polls by 10,000 votes against 901, a female bear who fiercely “defends her fishing spots from other bears”

Voting fraud in Fat Bear Week? Is NOTHING sacred anymore???

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The 2022 Fat Bear Week had it all – unexpected intrigue, misconduct, a quick rescue and a happy ending for a winner we can all get behind.

The enormous 747 withstood a challenge from 901 — a young upstart female whom the park describes as "occasionally mischievous." The park says its virtual ballot box was stuffed in Sunday's semifinal.

Katmai national park, which runs Fat Bear Week, forced to discount votes after irregularities in semi-finals discovered