The Latest Friday Evening Headlines Heavy rain in store for Seattle, Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes a record donation for cancer research, and T-Mobile announces layoffs. Patricia Murphy There's a new number one song in the country, and it comes from an unlikely source Nearly every week this summer, there's been an immovable object at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: It's "Ordinary" by the singer Alex Warren. That changed this week. Stephen Thompson Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite in 'Highest 2 Lowest.' It's almost all highs Spike Lee's kidnapping drama Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low, relocating the action to New York City and starring Denzel Washington. Bob Mondello Latin America This weekend could mark an end for the leftist party in Bolivia Polls point to a defeat for the leftist party that has ruled Bolivia for the past two decades. Voters overwhelmingly say they want a change as the nation suffers from high inflation and shortages. Carrie Kahn National D.C. AG accuses federal government of attempting a hostile takeover of city police The District of Columbia sued the federal government in a clash over home rule as the Justice Department moved to install a new city police leader. Carrie Johnson World A Ukrainian view of the Trump-Putin summit President Trump and Putin are meeting to discuss the end of Russia's war in Ukraine without Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel. Mary Louise Kelly Government Seattle installs visual barrier at Denny Blaine, breaks park into naked, clothed sections Seattle Parks and Recreation installed new signs and fencing at Denny Blaine Park Wednesday in response to an order from a King County judge. KUOW Staff Business Home Depot stays quiet as immigration raids target day laborers Home Depot stores have been the location of dramatic federal raids targeting day laborers. But the company has largely been quiet. Alina Selyukh Politics Two months after shootings, Minnesota politicians pledge to cool the rhetoric After two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in Minnesota, other politicians in the state have signed a pledge to seek out common ground and cool their rhetoric. Dana Ferguson Music Harmonica enthusiast breathe new life into one of the smallest musical instruments About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Jack Morgan Prev 575 of 1647 Next Sponsored
Friday Evening Headlines Heavy rain in store for Seattle, Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes a record donation for cancer research, and T-Mobile announces layoffs. Patricia Murphy
There's a new number one song in the country, and it comes from an unlikely source Nearly every week this summer, there's been an immovable object at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: It's "Ordinary" by the singer Alex Warren. That changed this week. Stephen Thompson
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite in 'Highest 2 Lowest.' It's almost all highs Spike Lee's kidnapping drama Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low, relocating the action to New York City and starring Denzel Washington. Bob Mondello
Latin America This weekend could mark an end for the leftist party in Bolivia Polls point to a defeat for the leftist party that has ruled Bolivia for the past two decades. Voters overwhelmingly say they want a change as the nation suffers from high inflation and shortages. Carrie Kahn
National D.C. AG accuses federal government of attempting a hostile takeover of city police The District of Columbia sued the federal government in a clash over home rule as the Justice Department moved to install a new city police leader. Carrie Johnson
World A Ukrainian view of the Trump-Putin summit President Trump and Putin are meeting to discuss the end of Russia's war in Ukraine without Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel. Mary Louise Kelly
Government Seattle installs visual barrier at Denny Blaine, breaks park into naked, clothed sections Seattle Parks and Recreation installed new signs and fencing at Denny Blaine Park Wednesday in response to an order from a King County judge. KUOW Staff
Business Home Depot stays quiet as immigration raids target day laborers Home Depot stores have been the location of dramatic federal raids targeting day laborers. But the company has largely been quiet. Alina Selyukh
Politics Two months after shootings, Minnesota politicians pledge to cool the rhetoric After two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in Minnesota, other politicians in the state have signed a pledge to seek out common ground and cool their rhetoric. Dana Ferguson
Music Harmonica enthusiast breathe new life into one of the smallest musical instruments About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Jack Morgan