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Tuesday Evening Headlines

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4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

WA Attorney General sues to stop Trump's birthright citizenship order, farmworkers rally in Olympia, and Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki is elected to the Hall of Fame. 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.

0:22.8

Listen to Seattle Eat on the KOWW app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:32.8

Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom.

0:35.9

This is Seattle now.

0:43.1

I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, January 21st.

0:53.8

Our top story today, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is filing an emergency order to protect babies that are born in Washington state to non-citizens. Just yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order to attempt to end birthright citizenship.

1:00.0

Brown says that would affect over 100,000 babies born in the U.S. every year.

1:06.0

That's thousands of people born here in Washington, who would be denied the key to full participation

1:12.1

and opportunity in American society.

1:15.2

Washington and 21 other states are suing the administration over Trump's executive order,

1:20.8

but the chair of the Washington State Republican Party, Jim Walsh, is criticizing Brown for the lawsuit,

1:26.8

calling it a political move.

1:28.7

We'll get deeper into this topic in a few minutes with our politics team.

1:33.2

Over in the governor's office, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson is unruffled by the flurry of

1:39.0

executive orders that have come down from Trump this week.

1:42.4

Jeannie Lindsay has the story there.

1:44.8

Governor Ferguson spent years battling Trump's first administration in court as the state's

1:49.7

attorney general.

1:50.5

Because of that experience, Ferguson says he wasn't surprised by anything Trump did on his first

1:56.7

day back in office this week, including the series of executive orders Trump signed on issues like

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