The Latest Sports Seattle Mariners seize Game 5 over Blue Jays, avoiding ‘historical misery’ Friday was another big day for the Seattle Mariners and their fans. The M’s beat the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series at T-Mobile Park Friday. Vaughan Jones Politics Is Seattle ready for a Portland-like federal response? Police, city leaders take preemptive steps Amy Radil Friday Evening Headlines Thousands expected to protest in Seattle this weekend, mayoral candidates talk bike safety, and attorneys raise the alarm about unlawful ICE arrests. Patricia Murphy Politics President Trump commutes the prison sentence of George Santos The disgraced New York Republican was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a litany of federal charges, including wire fraud and identity theft. Saige Miller Politics Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow National Guard deployment in Illinois The Trump administration filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking it to lift lower-court rulings blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Illinois. Kat Lonsdorf Politics A GOP attack ad deepfakes Chuck Schumer with AI The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads. Shannon Bond Sudan Archives shared how synthesizers and tech shaped her new album NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brittney Denise Sparks of Sudan Archives about her new album The BPM. She talks about how discovering the electric violin in her teens changed things for her. Jonaki Mehta Arts & Life Jeff Hiller's Emmy win has been surprisingly meaningful for him, he says Jeff Hiller won an Emmy this year for his role in HBO's "Somebody Somewhere." The recognition came after decades of bit roles in TV. And he says the win has been unexpectedly meaningful for him. Health Intense mental exercise may be able to offset the effects of aging, research finds A new study shows that cognitive training can increase the levels of a key chemical messenger in the brain responsible for decision-making. Jon Hamilton Law & Courts A legal analyst weighs in on the federal indictment of John Bolton NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to former top FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann about the federal indictment of John Bolton, the former National Security Adviser under President Trump during his first term. Erika Ryan Prev 743 of 1646 Next Sponsored
Sports Seattle Mariners seize Game 5 over Blue Jays, avoiding ‘historical misery’ Friday was another big day for the Seattle Mariners and their fans. The M’s beat the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series at T-Mobile Park Friday. Vaughan Jones
Politics Is Seattle ready for a Portland-like federal response? Police, city leaders take preemptive steps Amy Radil
Friday Evening Headlines Thousands expected to protest in Seattle this weekend, mayoral candidates talk bike safety, and attorneys raise the alarm about unlawful ICE arrests. Patricia Murphy
Politics President Trump commutes the prison sentence of George Santos The disgraced New York Republican was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a litany of federal charges, including wire fraud and identity theft. Saige Miller
Politics Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow National Guard deployment in Illinois The Trump administration filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking it to lift lower-court rulings blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Illinois. Kat Lonsdorf
Politics A GOP attack ad deepfakes Chuck Schumer with AI The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads. Shannon Bond
Sudan Archives shared how synthesizers and tech shaped her new album NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brittney Denise Sparks of Sudan Archives about her new album The BPM. She talks about how discovering the electric violin in her teens changed things for her. Jonaki Mehta
Arts & Life Jeff Hiller's Emmy win has been surprisingly meaningful for him, he says Jeff Hiller won an Emmy this year for his role in HBO's "Somebody Somewhere." The recognition came after decades of bit roles in TV. And he says the win has been unexpectedly meaningful for him.
Health Intense mental exercise may be able to offset the effects of aging, research finds A new study shows that cognitive training can increase the levels of a key chemical messenger in the brain responsible for decision-making. Jon Hamilton
Law & Courts A legal analyst weighs in on the federal indictment of John Bolton NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to former top FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann about the federal indictment of John Bolton, the former National Security Adviser under President Trump during his first term. Erika Ryan