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What SPD's new contract says about police accountability This week, the Seattle city council approved 2 new police contracts. They're now the first since the end of the department's federal oversight earlier this year. KUOW’s Amy Radil is here with a look at what's changed. Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers
Politics Senate to vote on competing health care proposals as ACA subsidies deadline approaches Democrats and Republicans have put forward competing health care bills in Congress to address rising costs, but both are expected to fail. Michel Martin
Politics Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., on upcoming vote on dueling health care bills NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire about the Senate's upcoming vote on dueling health care bills, as the deadline to extend ACA subsidies looms. Steve Inskeep
President Trump says he's going to play a role in the sale of CNN's parent company President Trump is lashing out at CNN and pledging to be involved in the looming fight over the cable network's parent company. David Folkenflik
Science Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000 years. Nathan Rott
Health I hate getting Pap smears. Is there a safe alternative? You may have heard about HPV testing and self-swabbing to collect the sample. Does that work as well? Here are the ins and outs of this newer option. Mara Gordon
Politics Competing health care plans fail in the Senate as ACA premium hikes loom The outcome was widely expected after Democrats and Republicans released dueling bills. Congress is under pressure to address health care costs before federal subsidies lapse at the end of the year. Saige Miller
Politics Elizabeth Warren says both bids to buy Warner Bros. Discovery are bad for consumers Sen. Elizabeth Warren cautions that the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to either Netflix or Paramount Skydance could reduce competition and concentrate power over what films and news American see. Steve Inskeep
National This refugee's family faced persecution in Bhutan. Now, he could be deported there Mohan Karki's family and others with Nepali ancestry were persecuted and driven out of Bhutan in the 1990s. Karki himself was born in a refugee camp in nearby Nepal. Yet, the U.S. government claims he is a Bhutanese citizen and seeks to deport him there. Juliana Kim