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Seattle Now

Thursday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

News, Daily News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Bill Gates announces plan to give away his fortune, Ports of Seattle and Tacoma are seeing first signs of a slowdown, and Seattle basketball legend Sue Bird picked to lead women's national team. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.

Transcript

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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.

0:22.8

Listen to Seattle Eats on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:33.1

Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom.

0:36.2

This is Seattle now.

0:42.3

I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday, May 8th.

0:49.3

The Washington Supreme Court has upheld a state law banning the sale of high-capacity magazines for firearms.

0:55.4

This decision will mean more safety, more lives saved in Washington, so it's great.

0:58.0

That's the state's Attorney General Nick Brown.

1:03.1

His office argued the case against Gators' custom guns in southwest Washington.

1:10.2

Pete Serrano, with a silent majority foundation, represented Gators and called the state ban unconstitutional. While we're disappointed in what the majority opinion holds, we're very happy to see that we had

1:16.1

two justices side with the rule of law through their dissenting opinion.

1:20.6

In their dissent, Justice's Cheryl Gordon McLeod and Helen Whitner said the ban violates the

1:27.4

Second Amendment. Serrano says the gunstore may seek a review of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1:34.7

Bill Gates says he'll give away virtually all of his personal wealth over the next 20 years and wind down the Gates Foundation by 2045.

1:45.9

Gabriel Spitzer has details.

1:51.5

The Gates Foundation says it will spend about $200 billion before closing up shop two decades from now. But CEO Mark Sussman says the foundation still needs governments around the

1:56.9

globe to pitch in. Philanthropy alone, even a philanthropy of our size and scope cannot

2:01.5

possibly fill the gap that governments currently fill, and so we're going to make as stronger

2:06.5

case as possible that this is the highest impact spending that any government can do, and we believe

2:12.9

it has the full support of the vast majority of citizens in those countries. The Foundation had planned to conclude its work 20 years after its founder's death.

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