The Latest National Peace vigil outside of the White House is targeted to be 'dismantled' An anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil has lived outside of the White House fence for more than 40 years. President Donald Trump ordered the vigil to be "dismantled" this week. Jordan-Marie Smith Law & Courts Former WA state worker sentenced for nearly $900,000 embezzlement A former Washington state worker who admitted to embezzling nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funding to finance his gambling addiction was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard Education Washington’s K-12 standardized test scores still below pre-pandemic levels Standardized test scores for Washington public school students improved slightly this year, according to data the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released Wednesday. Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard National Security Political violence is on the rise in America. What's driving it? Before his apprehension, speculation about the identity and motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer filled the void. A increasingly familiar pattern of political violence is taking shape in America. Odette Yousef King Princess is having a big year. And she's not done yet NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with King Princess about their new album, Girl Violence. Sarah Handel Politics Utah governor, known for 'disagreeing better,' calls for calm after Kirk shooting Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, encouraged young people to "choose a different path" from rage and violence. The mantra of "disagreeing better" has morphed into Cox's brand as a politician. Saige Miller Health Typhus, a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S., is on the rise in Texas Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback. David Martin Davies Week in Review: surveillance, Brian Heywood, and the Comprehensive Plan Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with The Stranger news editor Vivian McCall, KUOW politics editor Cat Smith, and Seattle Times editorial writer and columnist Alex Fryer. Kevin Kniestedt Immigration Months of deportation fears have shaken Northwest Latino cultural events ahead of Hispanic Heritage Month Concerns about rising U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have had a chilling effect on many Latino cultural events in the Pacific Northwest this year. Many landmark events have been canceled, including several that celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Adia White/Northwest News Network Politics 33 hours: A timeline of Charlie Kirk's shooting and the search for a suspect Authorities said the suspect in Kirk's killing, Tyler Robinson, was detained on Thursday night — less than 36 hours after the shooting. Here's what happened in between. Rachel Treisman Prev 919 of 1645 Next Sponsored
National Peace vigil outside of the White House is targeted to be 'dismantled' An anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil has lived outside of the White House fence for more than 40 years. President Donald Trump ordered the vigil to be "dismantled" this week. Jordan-Marie Smith
Law & Courts Former WA state worker sentenced for nearly $900,000 embezzlement A former Washington state worker who admitted to embezzling nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funding to finance his gambling addiction was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Education Washington’s K-12 standardized test scores still below pre-pandemic levels Standardized test scores for Washington public school students improved slightly this year, according to data the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released Wednesday. Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard
National Security Political violence is on the rise in America. What's driving it? Before his apprehension, speculation about the identity and motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer filled the void. A increasingly familiar pattern of political violence is taking shape in America. Odette Yousef
King Princess is having a big year. And she's not done yet NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with King Princess about their new album, Girl Violence. Sarah Handel
Politics Utah governor, known for 'disagreeing better,' calls for calm after Kirk shooting Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, encouraged young people to "choose a different path" from rage and violence. The mantra of "disagreeing better" has morphed into Cox's brand as a politician. Saige Miller
Health Typhus, a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S., is on the rise in Texas Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback. David Martin Davies
Week in Review: surveillance, Brian Heywood, and the Comprehensive Plan Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with The Stranger news editor Vivian McCall, KUOW politics editor Cat Smith, and Seattle Times editorial writer and columnist Alex Fryer. Kevin Kniestedt
Immigration Months of deportation fears have shaken Northwest Latino cultural events ahead of Hispanic Heritage Month Concerns about rising U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have had a chilling effect on many Latino cultural events in the Pacific Northwest this year. Many landmark events have been canceled, including several that celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Adia White/Northwest News Network
Politics 33 hours: A timeline of Charlie Kirk's shooting and the search for a suspect Authorities said the suspect in Kirk's killing, Tyler Robinson, was detained on Thursday night — less than 36 hours after the shooting. Here's what happened in between. Rachel Treisman