Thursday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Seattle judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order, former Auburn cop sentenced to 16 years, and Maple Valley's Brandi Carlile receives her first Oscar nomination. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Tonvin, host of Seattle Eats, a food podcast from the Seattle Times in K-O-W. |
| 0:07.8 | Did you know Washington State grows 98% of the frozen raspberries, so to United States? |
| 0:15.3 | On the latest episode of Seattle Eats, we sample food made with these raspberries and learn how it all happens. |
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| 0:33.2 | Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday, January 23rd. |
| 0:45.6 | Starting with one of the top national stories today, a lawsuit from Washington State has blocked President Trump's order to end birthright citizenship. At least for now, Amy |
| 0:56.1 | Radle has more. Trump's order withholds citizenship from children born in the U.S. to parents |
| 1:02.1 | who are neither citizens nor permanent legal residence. In Thursday's hearing, U.S. District |
| 1:07.0 | Judge John Kuhnauer called the order blatantly unconstitutional. He granted a temporary |
| 1:11.8 | restraining order stopping implementation. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown led the legal challenge |
| 1:17.7 | to Trump's order. I was not surprised to see Judge Kuhnauer sort of dismissed the absurdity of the |
| 1:23.7 | order and the absurdity of the president's action. An attorney for the U.S. Justice Department argued the order is constitutional. |
| 1:31.0 | He asked the court to take more time and not issue a snap judgment. |
| 1:34.9 | Washington's suit was joined by Oregon, Arizona, and Illinois. |
| 1:38.6 | Other legal challenges are also moving forward before the order takes effect February 19th. |
| 1:44.1 | Further hearings are expected in the |
| 1:45.6 | coming days. Amy Radle, KUOW News. A police officer will be sent to prison today. A King |
| 1:52.7 | County judge sentenced a former Auburn cop to more than 16 years. Officer Jeffrey Nelson was |
| 1:59.3 | found guilty of murder and assault in the death of Jesse |
| 2:02.4 | Surrey. Ashley Haruko has the details for us. Nelson shot Surrey twice during an altercation outside |
| 2:08.5 | a convenience store in 2019 and was convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree assault last |
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