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The team announced on Thursday they were terminating the contracts of wide receiver Baldwin and safety Chancellor with failed physical designations. “The Seahawks have made the difficult decision to terminate/failed physical Doug Baldwin and Kam Chancellor,” said general manager John Schneider. “These are two of the most iconic players in franchise history and both were instrumental in establishing our championship culture, great examples of competitiveness and leadership on the field and in the community....

Line movement: The line opened Seattle -4.5 at the Las Vegas SuperBook on Sunday night, but it quickly moved up to -5, and it has gone up further throughout Nevada. For updated lines around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: The Seahawks are 12-6 against the number in road games since 2012. The Chargers have been the best underdog in the league since 2003, amassing a 42-28-4 spread record when getting points....

Pile drivers that bash huge columns into the seabed to create platforms for offshore turbines are damaging the hearing of seals and porpoises, and noise regulations need to be updated to protect sea creatures against a rising din in the oceans, say conservationists. Whales are also having to struggle to compete with it, spending more time and energy trying to communicate. It has been compared to “screaming at each other” - like humans have to do in a crowded nightclub....

In a 7:30 p.m. call, the Galveston Police Department reported the 25-year-old man had jumped into in the water east of San Luis Pass while trying to save his 3-year-old daughter, according to a statement by the command center of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston. The girl was later saved by officers from the Galveston Island Beach Patrol. The Coast Guard searched an area of 68 square miles over a combined period of 20 hours before the search for the missing father was suspended at 7:25 p....

But five days after the attack, 21-year-old Chris-who was working his way through night school at Bronx Community College to qualify for a firefighting job like his dad and brother-is still missing. On Monday, he left the 23rd Street job for a two-day stint on the 107th floor of WTC 2, the south tower. His sister Kelly, excited that he would be working so near her office, made lunch plans with him for Tuesday....

While SCHiM began life as a final exam, it caught enough attention online to interest publishers. No one is currently signed to the isometric platformer, but with the assistance of Netherlands-based indie studio Extra Nice it has a deeper backstory and mechanics that have established a full-fledged project. Game Rant spoke to SCHiM lead developer Ewoud van der Werf about garnering attention for his game through the adoption of Steam Playtest and other marketing means....

About 20 people protested outside with signs against a potential school mask mandate before the Shawnee Mission district meeting began, and some of the protestors went inside, KMBC reported. The special meeting included no public comment period, but some of the people who opted to attend the event heckled and interrupted the speakers. The board eventually moved the meeting to a virtual format and forced the public attendees to leave....

The Fire’s 1-0 victory over the Columbus Crew was the club’s first in three weeks and easily the team’s most impressive of the young season. While Schweinsteiger wasn’t the best Fire player on the day — that distinction goes to Dax McCarty — the World Cup winner was impressive again. “The thing with Bastian that you notice is he makes everyone around him better,” McCarty told Goal after Saturday’s win....

Dier: Title almost impossible The former Germany international made the move in March, having been frozen out by Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford. But the 32-year-old has been less than impressed with the quality on show in America, with his side on a three-match winless run. “Chicago Fire finished as the bottom club in the previous two seasons and I did not expect that we’d win every match and finish on top by a mile,” Schweinsteiger told Suddeutsche Zeitung....

Land mines kill or maim an estimated 26,000 people every year, many of them civilians. The Nobel committee honored Williams and the group for starting ““a process which in the space of a few years changed a ban on anti-personnel mines from a vision into a feasible reality.’’ The group represents more than 1,000 organizations around the world. ICBL was little known until Princess Diana made it her favorite charity this year, traveling to Bosnia and Angola on its behalf....

LeDoux was making a point he also makes in his recent book: Every age thinks it’s “the Age of Anxiety.” “We love our anxiety and because it’s ours, we think it’s so special,” he said. “But that’s the nature of anxiety—it’s all-consuming in your mind. If my mind is charged with anxiety, I can’t imagine other people could’ve felt this bad in their lives.” As I contemplated what all this might mean for my children, the planet and my 401k, a text message arrived from my editor at Newsweek....

The letter, published in The BMJ last week, states that while vaccines greatly reduce the risk of serious illness and death, they are not enough to fight the rapidly mutating virus. For instance, compared to earlier variants, Omicron is much more likely to infect those who have been vaccinated or who have been exposed to previous COVID-19 variants. The result is unchecked COVID-19 transmission, causing more lockdowns, further disruption to education, and additional economic blows....

The new version has been dubbed “stealth Omicron” by some researchers because it lacks a particular genetic change that allows it to be easily detected in the lab-based COVID-19 tests, according to a report from The Guardian. Researchers have said that this new version has other genetic features to differentiate itself from the standard Omicron variant. While it can still be detected as Omicron through genomic testing, studies have found that it is not as easily flagged by routine PCR tests that are used around the world to measure how quickly the virus is spreading, according to the news outlet....

While U.S. officials and intelligence agencies have held out the possibility of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China has dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory. The scientific community has generally agreed with China’s position that the Coronavirus jumped species in nature, probably at a wet market in the city of Wuhan. That view has been in part based on the evidence that the COVID-19 virus was not genetically manipulated....

In any case, a sketch on Scorch’s “origin” that featured him overpowering a firefighter ultimately proved too stupid to move beyond. The story was that Scorch was a remaining ember from a hellish blaze that destroyed Glen Falls, N.Y. in 1864. Very cute. The kids would’ve loved it. Alas. “We’re extinguishing Scorch,” Flames president Brian Petrovek (Pun-trovek?) told the Glen Falls Post-Star on Tuesday. “The misjudgment we made was such that we came to that decision....

““The Blue Room’’ is Hare’s modernized version of Arthur Schnitzler’s ““La Ronde,’’ in which five men and five women form an inadvertent sexual daisy chain that crosses lines of social class and money. In Hare’s version, two actors, Kidman and Iain Glen, play all 10 contemporary copulators. Both give virtuoso performances, switching identities, costumes, accents and positions with speed, elegance, pathos and hilarity. These attributes apply equally to Sam Mendes’s staging and to Hare’s play, which looks with cool empathy at the illusions and deceptions of the modern mating dance....

Kantor played a relatively small role in formulating the administration’s policy linking trade with human rights, from which Clinton is retreating. He did reach a deal to curb illegal shipments of clothing from China but has struck out trying to protect drugs and CDs from illegal copying. _B_Grade: C.b Kantor’s harsh public criticism and his demand for ““quantitative measures’’ of trade liberalization appall Japanese who want more imports and let Tokyo portray itself as a victim of Washington’s quest for managed trade....

The wealthy +$161.2 billion The tax rate for families with incomes above $140,000 a year would rise from 31 percent to 36 percent, while those with incomes above $250,000 would pay 39.6 percent. Estate taxes would rise by 10 percent and the affluent would pay more in Medicare taxes. A victory for those who think the wealthy have been getting off easy-but if loopholes come back, tax lawyers and CPAs will be the real winners....

Gordon Strachan’s men have clawed their way back into the hunt for a play-off place in Group F and they could leapfrog the Slovakians into second place with a win on home turf. However, considering the fact that they endured a heavy 3-0 defeat against Jan Kozak’s side in Trnava last October, that is not a foregone conclusion and they will have to battle for three points. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the UK, the game will be available to watch live on television on Sky Sports Red Button or Main Event, as well as being available to stream live using Sky Go....