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Washington state exploring options to fight Trump's travel ban

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown said his office is taking a careful look at the Trump administration’s new travel ban and considering whether the state has a legal basis to challenge it.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Trump's birthright citizenship order lands in Seattle appeals court

Federal appeals court judges in Seattle on Wednesday questioned a Trump administration lawyer and Washington’s solicitor general over the president’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
- Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department

The federal judge also told the administration to reinstate department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced in March.
- Nicole Cohen
Washington state groups sue Trump administration over sweeping public health data erasures

Three Washington state groups that represent health care workers have joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the sweeping deletion of federal public health data, calling the removals “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasoned.”
- KUOW Staff
Tariffs are paused. Will the ports of Seattle, Tacoma rebound?

The constantly shifting currents of the trade war between the U.S. and China have led to an obsession with the ports over the past few weeks.
- Monica Nickelsburg
His day started with selling a chicken coop. It ended in immigration detention

Sergey Kostenyuk and Mary Loisate have been together for more than 20 years. Loisate was born in the U.S., but Kostenyuk is a legal permanent resident with a green card. He came to Spokane from Ukraine as a refugee more than 30 years ago, when he was a child.
- Eilís O'Neill
After a close election, Canadians stand together against ‘the Trump factor’

Canadians are working through new political realities after a national election last week amid comments from President Donald Trump about Canada becoming the 51st state.
- John O'Brien
Federal funding cuts to AmeriCorps leave Washington volunteers, nonprofits scrambling for answers

Cuts to the federal volunteer service program AmeriCorps are disrupting the work of non-profits across Washington as well as the lives of volunteers.
- Noel Gasca
Washington 'sanctuary law' allows ICE agents to pick up people leaving prison. They often don't

Washington state’s so-called “sanctuary law” is in the crosshairs of elected officials. But new data from the state’s department of corrections shows, even when the state works with federal immigration enforcement, the federal government isn’t always following through.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Trump is revoking visas. Students, post-grads in Seattle worry they'll be targeted for supporting Gaza

On Monday night, UW announced five students and four post-grad trainees had their visas revoked, and on Tuesday, Seattle University said three of its post-grads also had status revoked.
- Scott Greenstone

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