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Staying ‘home’ with Seahawks was important for DK Metcalf during contract talks

RENTON, Wash. — Maybe it was as simple as this.

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House passes assault weapons ban in wake of mass shootings

WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Friday that would ban the sale of assault-style weapons and high capacity magazines, for the first time since a similar ban lapsed in 2004.

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Larry Stone: DK Metcalf gets paid, and the Seahawks keep a star in the fold

RENTON, Wash. — There will be no drawn-out DK drama, disrupting the runway to a season already fraught with enough problematic issues for the Seahawks.

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"Black Women Who Once Hated Guns Are Embracing Them as Crime Soars"

From today's article in the Washington Post (Peter Jamison) (reprinted, without a paywall, in the Philadelphia Tribune), documenting a trend that I generally very much favor: Like many Black women in [the D.C. area] …, [Patrice Parker had] viewed guns for most of her life as the root of the…

Reason

Democrats unite on challenger to Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson

WASHINGTON — Wisconsin State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski dropped out of the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary Friday and endorsed Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, clearing his path to victory in the Aug. 9 contest that will set Barnes up to challenge GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in November.

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Japan's Hayashi says 'logic of brute force' gaining traction in Indo-Pacific

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi sounded the alarm about China's behavior in the Indo-Pacific during a visit to Washington on Friday, saying the "logic of brute force" was gaining more traction over the rule of law in the region.

Reuters

Lavrov tells Blinken the U.S. is breaking promises about food sanctions

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Washington was not living up to promises regarding the exemption from sanctions for the supply of food from Russia, Moscow said.

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Sir Christopher Meyer obituary

British ambassador to the US in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq who later served as chair of the Press Complaints Commission

The Guardian - UK

Clean energy tax package undergoes substantial shifts

WASHINGTON — Democrats made concessions to get Sen. Joe Manchin III on board with spending hundreds of billions of dollars on clean energy incentives in the revamped budget package unveiled late Wednesday, but they were able to preserve versions of key pieces that he’d targeted as concerns.

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Blinken says he ‘pressed’ Lavrov on release of US prisoners

The US is trying to secure release of basketball star Brittney Griner and ex-marine Paul Whelan, both held in Russia.

Al Jazeera

Heat wave serves Washington state a lesson in climate adaptation, mitigation

SEATTLE — For better or worse, this heat wave is forcing Washington to recognize and confront the impacts of climate change.

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Blinken to attend Asean talks next week

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Cambodia for a US-Asean ministers’ meeting next week, during which he will address the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, Myanmar and the war in Ukraine, the State Department said on Friday.

Bangkok Post

DK Metcalf scoring and celebrating touchowns through the years

As a way of celebrating Metcalf's new deal, here's a gallery of DK scoring touchdowns through the years.

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Gluttonous cosmic 'black widow' is heaviest-known neutron star

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

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Russia's Lavrov Says He Will Discuss US Prisoner Swap Offer

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that he's open to a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss a possible prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner. Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and another jailed…

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Matt Calkins: Rashaad Penny revved to be Seahawks' No. 1 RB, and he doesn't care about online trolls

RENTON, Wash. — Things a good running back should read: 1) The playbook, 2) scouting reports, 3) the defense.

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Angry callers are threatening Congress. These interns are on the front lines

WASHINGTON — People with vile things to say about Adam Kinzinger tend to call his office at night, when it’s virtually guaranteed no one will answer.

The Independent UK

China's Xi warns Biden over Taiwan, calls for cooperation

President Xi JInping warned against meddling in China’s dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that gave no indication of progress on trade, technology or other irritants

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CFN Preseason All-Pac-12 Football Team, Top 30 Players: Preview 2022

Who are the best players in the Pac-12 going into the 2022 college football season? They're highlighted in the CFN 2022 Preseason All-Pac-12 team and top 30 players.

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Biden’s slow-walk on student loans means more pressure to go big

WASHINGTON — While President Joe Biden draws out his decision on forgiving student loans, progressive lawmakers, civil rights groups, labor leaders and other advocates are taking the opportunity to press him to aim for more than $10,000 per borrower.

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DK Metcalf agrees to 3-year extension with Seahawks that includes record signing bonus

RENTON, Wash. — While speculation about DK Metcalf’s future lingered in national NFL circles throughout the offseason, the Seahawks expressed confidence at every turn that a deal would eventually get done.

Los Angeles Times

Here’s why the US economy shrinking in the 2nd quarter may not be so bad

WASHINGTON — In the most aggressive back-to-back interest rate increases since the early 1980s economic crisis, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced another hike of three-quarters of a percentage point and signaled more to come in its effort to beat back inflation despite the risk of a recession.

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Secret Service chief delays planned exit as agency faces Jan. 6 scrutiny

WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director James Murray will delay his planned departure for a job in the private sector while the agency faces scrutiny over missing text message from the days surrounding last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Reuters

Analysis-Despite Xi's 'fire', call with Biden avoided Taiwan escalation

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping managed largely to steer clear of escalatory rhetoric on Taiwan in a Thursday call, suggesting that neither side – preoccupied with economic woes at home – wants a fresh crisis across the Taiwan Strait.

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Eric Greitens’ lost chapter: Inside his disappearance from public life before Senate run

WASHINGTON — Around 20 minutes before Eric Greitens officially became the former governor of Missouri, he put out a 1,485-word list of his gubernatorial accomplishments.

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