The Latest Politics The bills that didn’t survive the Washington Legislature’s first major deadline A 60-day legislative session can be a cruel thing if you’re hoping to see a bill passed. Many policy ideas in the Washington Legislature met their end less than a month in, as they failed to pass the first key deadline on Wednesday to remain in play. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard Arts & Life Their film was shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran. It won an award at Sundance Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's underground arts scene to the prestigious film festival. Mandalit del Barco Health Study finds people with depression can benefit from a ketogenic diet But researchers say they're not ready to recommend the high-fat, low-carb diet just yet. Environment Chileans race to protect plant species in the world’s driest desert Chile is freezing its future to protect its plants. Education Green River College fires president after $14 million deficit forces widespread cuts Green River College has ousted President Suzanne Johnson after a massive budget shortfall forced college-wide cuts this school year. Ann Dornfeld Music They're out there. You just have to look beyond the pop stars and the Grammys stage. Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground. Ann Powers Politics Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps. Hansi Lo Wang Health Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care. Keren Landman Music 'Live at the Plugged Nickel' revisits Miles Davis' 1965 stint in Chicago In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades. Kevin Whitehead Arts & Life 'More relevant every day' in the U.S.: A filmmaker documented Russia's journalists Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends follows young independent journalists covering Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Tonya Mosley Prev 358 of 1647 Next Sponsored
Politics The bills that didn’t survive the Washington Legislature’s first major deadline A 60-day legislative session can be a cruel thing if you’re hoping to see a bill passed. Many policy ideas in the Washington Legislature met their end less than a month in, as they failed to pass the first key deadline on Wednesday to remain in play. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Arts & Life Their film was shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran. It won an award at Sundance Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's underground arts scene to the prestigious film festival. Mandalit del Barco
Health Study finds people with depression can benefit from a ketogenic diet But researchers say they're not ready to recommend the high-fat, low-carb diet just yet.
Environment Chileans race to protect plant species in the world’s driest desert Chile is freezing its future to protect its plants.
Education Green River College fires president after $14 million deficit forces widespread cuts Green River College has ousted President Suzanne Johnson after a massive budget shortfall forced college-wide cuts this school year. Ann Dornfeld
Music They're out there. You just have to look beyond the pop stars and the Grammys stage. Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground. Ann Powers
Politics Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps. Hansi Lo Wang
Health Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care. Keren Landman
Music 'Live at the Plugged Nickel' revisits Miles Davis' 1965 stint in Chicago In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades. Kevin Whitehead
Arts & Life 'More relevant every day' in the U.S.: A filmmaker documented Russia's journalists Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends follows young independent journalists covering Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Tonya Mosley