The Latest Saturday Special: Brothers in ICE Detention face uncertain future, Snohomish firefighters take Covid vaccine fight to federal court, and blended college classes at the Washington State Penitentiary On Saturdays, Seattle Now is bringing you the best from the KUOW newsroom… Two brothers being held at the Northwest ICE processing center in Tacoma face an uncertain future. The “Snohomish Eight” – firefighters suing their Snohomish County employer over religious discrimination – take their fight to federal court. And classes in Walla Walla have blended students from an elite college with students from the Washington State Penitentiary. Patricia Murphy Opinion: A wealth of wisdom for a bargain price NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the discovery that what Harvard University thought was a copy of the Magna Carta is actually an original. Scott Simon Fresh Air Weekend: Ramy Youssef; Danny McBride Youssef was in fifth grade and living in New Jersey on Sept. 11. His new show, #1 Happy Family USA, draws on his experiences. McBride sends a love letter to the South with The Righteous Gemstones. Politics Trump's DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules. Jude Joffe-Block Politics How DOGE has tried to embed beyond the executive branch NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks. Shannon Bond Environment Senior NOAA researchers are being forced out. Is Trump 'killing science'? As part of its concerted effort to shrink government agencies, the Trump administration has choked off funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The cuts have forced scientists who've done groundbreaking work here in the Northwest to leave their positions. Kim Malcolm Friday Evening Headlines DOJ may drop criminal case against Boeing, WA pushes to get more electric semi-trucks on the road, and PNW scientists feel the impact of NOAA cuts. Paige Browning Politics Democratic Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez won in a Trump district. Now she faces an uprising from the left Gene Johnson, Associated Press Law & Courts Supreme Court blocks deportation of immigrants under Alien Enemies Act, for now The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of immigrants in Northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán Arts & Life Wanda Sykes said it took decades of work to feel like she had the career she wanted On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Comedian Wanda Sykes talks about why it took her decades of work to feel like she had the career she wanted. Prev 1576 of 1643 Next Sponsored
Saturday Special: Brothers in ICE Detention face uncertain future, Snohomish firefighters take Covid vaccine fight to federal court, and blended college classes at the Washington State Penitentiary On Saturdays, Seattle Now is bringing you the best from the KUOW newsroom… Two brothers being held at the Northwest ICE processing center in Tacoma face an uncertain future. The “Snohomish Eight” – firefighters suing their Snohomish County employer over religious discrimination – take their fight to federal court. And classes in Walla Walla have blended students from an elite college with students from the Washington State Penitentiary. Patricia Murphy
Opinion: A wealth of wisdom for a bargain price NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the discovery that what Harvard University thought was a copy of the Magna Carta is actually an original. Scott Simon
Fresh Air Weekend: Ramy Youssef; Danny McBride Youssef was in fifth grade and living in New Jersey on Sept. 11. His new show, #1 Happy Family USA, draws on his experiences. McBride sends a love letter to the South with The Righteous Gemstones.
Politics Trump's DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules. Jude Joffe-Block
Politics How DOGE has tried to embed beyond the executive branch NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks. Shannon Bond
Environment Senior NOAA researchers are being forced out. Is Trump 'killing science'? As part of its concerted effort to shrink government agencies, the Trump administration has choked off funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The cuts have forced scientists who've done groundbreaking work here in the Northwest to leave their positions. Kim Malcolm
Friday Evening Headlines DOJ may drop criminal case against Boeing, WA pushes to get more electric semi-trucks on the road, and PNW scientists feel the impact of NOAA cuts. Paige Browning
Politics Democratic Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez won in a Trump district. Now she faces an uprising from the left Gene Johnson, Associated Press
Law & Courts Supreme Court blocks deportation of immigrants under Alien Enemies Act, for now The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of immigrants in Northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Arts & Life Wanda Sykes said it took decades of work to feel like she had the career she wanted On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Comedian Wanda Sykes talks about why it took her decades of work to feel like she had the career she wanted.
