The Latest Education When will Seattle Public Schools get its next superintendent? Not this fall The Seattle School Board decided this week to extend the superintendent search to allow more time for community engagement and feedback. Sami West PBS, KEXP, KUOW: how impending public media cuts could change local stations Friday is the deadline for President Trump’s rescission package. If it passes, it will rescind $1.1 billion dollars currently budgeted for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- including funding for local public media stations. Libby Denkmann Politics Senate debates package that would cut foreign aid and public media funding The Senate debates the clawing back of previously approved funding for foreign aid and public media — as Democratic lawmakers object. A final vote in the Senate is expected by Thursday. Deirdre Walsh World The air Israeli strikes on the capital marked a sharp escalation Israel bombed the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, saying it targeted the Syrian military headquarters and the area near the presidential palace to protect the Druze religious minority in Syria. Hadeel Al-Shalchi World The U.K. government secretly relocated thousands of Afghans to Britain for two years The British government hid a billion dollar plan to rescue Afghans who assisted its troops after a data leak compromised exposed them to Taliban retaliation. Willem Marx National Meet the oldest runner to complete the Badwater Ultramarathon Eighty-year-old Bob Becker became the oldest person ever to complete the grueling Badwater 135 ultramarathon, starting in Death Valley's sweltering heat and covering three mountain ranges. Juana Summers Health Care Mayo Clinic medical residents' training includes improv classes to improve patient relationships Improv comedy classes are part of the training medical residents at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic receive. It's an effort to help doctors learn early how to improve relationships with patients. Catharine Richert Business 5 air traffic controllers explain the improvements they want Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say Trump administration's plan to overhaul the nation's air traffic system does little to fix the bigger problem: a nationwide staffing shortage. Joe Hernandez Arts & Life What's it like to have Frank Lloyd Wright design your house? This 101-year-old knows Tucked into the woods of Pleasantville, N.Y., lies Usonia — a cooperative community created in part by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. One resident is 101 years old. Vanessa Romo National Nebraska failed to undo ban on food assistance for those with drug convictions Under a legacy of the war on drugs, some states still ban people with drug convictions from getting government food assistance. Nebraska lawmakers tried to do away with their ban and just fell short. Kassidy Arena Prev 712 of 1647 Next Sponsored
Education When will Seattle Public Schools get its next superintendent? Not this fall The Seattle School Board decided this week to extend the superintendent search to allow more time for community engagement and feedback. Sami West
PBS, KEXP, KUOW: how impending public media cuts could change local stations Friday is the deadline for President Trump’s rescission package. If it passes, it will rescind $1.1 billion dollars currently budgeted for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- including funding for local public media stations. Libby Denkmann
Politics Senate debates package that would cut foreign aid and public media funding The Senate debates the clawing back of previously approved funding for foreign aid and public media — as Democratic lawmakers object. A final vote in the Senate is expected by Thursday. Deirdre Walsh
World The air Israeli strikes on the capital marked a sharp escalation Israel bombed the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, saying it targeted the Syrian military headquarters and the area near the presidential palace to protect the Druze religious minority in Syria. Hadeel Al-Shalchi
World The U.K. government secretly relocated thousands of Afghans to Britain for two years The British government hid a billion dollar plan to rescue Afghans who assisted its troops after a data leak compromised exposed them to Taliban retaliation. Willem Marx
National Meet the oldest runner to complete the Badwater Ultramarathon Eighty-year-old Bob Becker became the oldest person ever to complete the grueling Badwater 135 ultramarathon, starting in Death Valley's sweltering heat and covering three mountain ranges. Juana Summers
Health Care Mayo Clinic medical residents' training includes improv classes to improve patient relationships Improv comedy classes are part of the training medical residents at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic receive. It's an effort to help doctors learn early how to improve relationships with patients. Catharine Richert
Business 5 air traffic controllers explain the improvements they want Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say Trump administration's plan to overhaul the nation's air traffic system does little to fix the bigger problem: a nationwide staffing shortage. Joe Hernandez
Arts & Life What's it like to have Frank Lloyd Wright design your house? This 101-year-old knows Tucked into the woods of Pleasantville, N.Y., lies Usonia — a cooperative community created in part by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. One resident is 101 years old. Vanessa Romo
National Nebraska failed to undo ban on food assistance for those with drug convictions Under a legacy of the war on drugs, some states still ban people with drug convictions from getting government food assistance. Nebraska lawmakers tried to do away with their ban and just fell short. Kassidy Arena