Thursday Evening Headlines Mayor Wilson delays removal of Ballard encampment, state lawmakers want to conceal their private addresses, and UW now requires civil rights training after feds investigate alleged antisemitism on campus. Paige Browning
A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states. Miles Parks
McClatchy News is experimenting with AI. Union reporters have questions New policies instituted by publisher McClatchy Media have left reporters at the papers worried that the company is adopting artificial intelligence tools for efficiency’s sake, at the cost of accurate information. Libby Denkmann
Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Jan 16-19 Your weekly look-ahead at all the events that are worth your weekend time, plus a big batch of events for Martin Luther King Jr Day! Jason Burrows
Behind the front lines of the legal battle against Trump's National Guard deployments As President Trump began a pattern of deploying the National Guard to democratic-led cities, several Democratic attorneys general and their staffs worked to coordinate their fight against the deployments – and, ultimately, they won. Kat Lonsdorf
Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing. Sam Gringlas
Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and they are conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days. John Ruwitch
Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it? As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities. Juliana Kim
There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out? Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown. John Ruwitch
Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown. The Associated Press