• U.S. Department of Education investigates Tumwater School District over transgender student athlete

  The U.S. Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into the Tumwater School District after a transgender girl from Shelton played in a high school girls’ basketball game last month.

  • Sami West

• Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell pushes for another decade of democracy vouchers

  Harrell's push to renew democracy vouchers comes as the program hits 10 years and faces a potential sunsetting. Without a renewal, the program will end.

  • Noel Gasca

• Former longtime Washington House Speaker Frank Chopp dies at 71

  Longtime Washington Democratic Rep. Frank Chopp, who became one of the state’s most powerful House speakers over the two decades he held the leadership role, died Saturday.

  • Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard

• King County Executive Dow Constantine nominated to become next Sound Transit CEO

  King County Executive Dow Constantine has officially been nominated for a new position of leadership in the Seattle area: Sound Transit CEO.

  • KUOW Staff

• Trump critics in Seattle push back in court — and head for the streets

  • Amy Radil

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• Has the U.S. revoked visas for UW or WSU students?

  Washington universities are on edge with this month's news of federal agents detaining students with green cards, and the U.S. revoking visas, of protesters who criticized Israel's war in Gaza.

  • Scott Greenstone

• Washington joins multi-state lawsuit against Trump administration for cutting billions in public health funding

  Washington state is among 24 states suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an effort to block its sudden termination of $11 billion in grant funding for public health agencies.

  • Scott Greenstone

• Eid moves one step closer to becoming a Washington state holiday

  Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two holidays celebrated by nearly 100,000 Muslims in Washington state, is one step closer to state recognition.

  • Ruby de Luna

• ‘No budget gimmicks’: WA Gov. Ferguson won't support legislative Democrats’ wealth tax plans

  Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is promising a fight with lawmakers if they stick to their recently unveiled tax plans.

  • Jeanie Lindsay

• Seattle's federal health office closes as Trump administration guts HHS funding

  In his plan to streamline the expansive Health and Human Services administration, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced last week he’d be firing 10,000 employees and chopping half of the regional offices in the country. The Seattle regional office is apparently among them.

  • Scott Greenstone

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