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Seattle Now

Wednesday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

State Dems want to make it easier to redraw Congressional maps, WA officials issue correction over pollution prevention, and UW remembers goalkeeper Mia Hamant.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How does AI even work?

0:03.0

Where does creativity come from?

0:05.5

What's the secret to living longer?

0:07.8

Ted Radio Hour explores the biggest questions with some of the world's greatest thinkers.

0:12.9

They will surprise, challenge, and even change you.

0:16.4

Listen to NPR's TED Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts.

0:23.9

Hey, hey, and good afternoon.

0:26.2

From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now.

0:29.3

I'm Paige Browning, and we've got the roundup of today's top stories.

0:33.0

It's Wednesday, January 7th.

0:36.4

People who work or live in downtown Seattle could see protests starting at

0:40.2

6 o'clock tonight. Protesters plan to gather outside of the federal building in Seattle against

0:45.0

immigration and customs enforcement. Similar plans are happening in Tacoma, Spokane, New York City,

0:51.4

outside the White House, and in a growing list of cities and towns nationwide,

0:56.7

protesters are calling attention to an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis this morning.

1:03.1

Seattle organizers say deaths at the hands of ice cannot continue to happen.

1:08.2

Federal officials have claimed the ICE agent shot in self-defense, but Minneapolis

1:13.0

Mayor Jacob Frey says the officer acted recklessly, shooting a woman who was driving. At CETAC Airport,

1:20.8

a migrant mother and her two young children are with their bags prepared to self-deport.

1:26.2

Darlene came to the U.S. in 2021 from Guatemala.

1:29.6

We're only using her first name due to her legal status.

1:32.9

Her asylum case fell through, and now Darlene and her kids must leave the country.

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