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Voicesrock.com. Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning

with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Wednesday, September 10th.

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People in Washington State and around the country are responding to today's fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah. It's not known what motivated the killing.

Governor Bob Ferguson wrote on social media, there is no place in our democracy for political violence.

The chair of Washington's Republican Party, Jim Walsh,

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