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Many parts of the United States are desperately in need of doctors, especially in rural and medically underserved areas.
The World's Global Classroom
Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors
Gino Yevdjevich – who goes by “Gino” — is the founder and lead singer of the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.
Movement
‘Sing every single song like it’s your last’: How conflict in Sarajevo changed this musician’s life
Enrique Kiki Valera is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, sound engineer and producer. He’s best known as one of the world’s greatest players of the Cuban cuatro, a mid-size guitar with eight strings grouped in sets of two.
Movement
Kiki Valera on Son cubano and how he developed a unique musical perspective
Dakota Camacho, dancer and musician, seen in a body of a water unclothed with long hair.
Movement
‘I can speak the language of rhyme:’ Dakota Camacho on Guam, family and hip-hop
A young girl is shown leaning up against a stone column spraying a stream of water.
Environment
Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
Momma Nikki as a child with their father Jean Bonny Etienne in an undated photo.
Movement
Haitian American artist Momma Nikki sings about a complicated father-child relationship — and reconciliation
Eight square-size pictures of young men and women appear over a white background.
Every 30 Seconds
2020 Election: The voting power of Latino youth
Michelle Aguilar Ramirez stands for a portrait in South Seattle, Washington, May 18, 2020.
Every 30 Seconds
Young US Latinos are at the forefront of a climate revolution
Una photo con el collage de 8 retratos de jovenes sobre un fondo negro.
Every 30 Seconds
Estos son los jóvenes votantes latinos de ‘Cada 30 Segundos’
Michelle Aguilar Ramirez stands for a portrait on Monday, May 18, 2020, in South Seattle, Wash.
Every 30 Seconds
This Latina first-time voter ‘can’t stay mute’ about racism
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents look at women and children
Immigration
Trump proposes harsh asylum rules disqualifying many applicants
Delia Ramirez, a restaurant worker, hangs aprons to dry at her home in the Bella-B Mobile Home Park, where owner Yacov Sinai decreased rents to help residents in difficult economic situations due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Every 30 Seconds
Young Latino voters in Seattle view November election through lens of pandemic
A team of researchers at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center selects lead antibody candidates for further screening.
COVID-19
Racing to develop a drug to fight COVID-19
People gather around a coffin on a boat
COVID-19
Mourning in the midst of a pandemic
US Vice President Mike Pence is shown sitting at a table with people sitting all around him and microphones on boom polls hanging overhead.
COVID-19
California declares emergency over coronavirus as death toll rises
A large group of people are shown crossing an intersection, most wearing face masks, with brightly lit buildings in the background.
COVID-19
WHO warns of global shortage of medical equipment to fight coronavirus
Employees from a disinfection service company sanitize a shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 27, 2020.
COVID-19
This hotline aims to help ‘exhausted’ health care workers fighting COVID-19
A Boeing 737 Max aircraft is shown in the distance from the front with a stairway connected to the side.
Business
Boeing’s 737 crisis deepens as production stops for first time in two decades
Seattle Mariners' outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gives autographs to fans before an exhbition game in Tokyo against the Yomiuri Giants, March 17, 2019.
Is Japan’s greatest baseball player about to take his final bow?
A close-up view of a male blue orchard bee, also known as Osmia lignaria. This type of bee, which is native to North America, is known to be one of the world's best pollinators.
Science
Book creates buzz about native bees of North America
When Dean Huang returned to Taiwan to do his compulsory military service, he had to give up a lot: his job, his apartment, his cell phone, his hair. His autonomy.
Culture
He had a dream life in Seattle. Then Taiwan’s military came calling.
Arts, Culture & Media
Art Guard
Arts, Culture & Media
Art Guard
South London musician Cosmo Pyke
Arts
Cosmo Pyke and Frank Ulwenya capture the sound of travel with soul and surf rock
Amazon store
Business
Amazon store opening in Seattle on Monday uses cameras and sensors to track purchases
“I don't want to have to do this,” Victoria Barrett says. “It's just I feel like it obviously needs to be done. It's frustrating... Sometimes I feel like people my age are fighting the hardest when we didn't even start this in the first place."
Global Politics
This 18-year-old from New York is suing the Trump administration over climate change
Atlantic salmon
Environment
Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape into Pacific Northwest waters
Derrick Ko, co-founder and CEO of Spin, rides one of his bikes in downtown Seattle. Spin currently has a permit to place 500 ride share bikes in Seattle.Derrick Ko, co-founder and CEO of Spin, rides one of his bikes in downtown Seattle. Spin currently has
Economics
Seattle becomes first US city to try dockless bike sharing, the system that’s transforming China
Carrie Brownstein
Arts
Carrie Brownstein on the rise and fall of the best band ever
Oil flows through pipes to the Westridge Marine near Vancouver, BC. A second, much larger pipeline here is part of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's plan to increase exports of oil from Alberta's tar sands region. Opponents say that would increase
Environment
This Canadian oil pipeline could cause the next great controversy
Portrait of man sitting on sofa
Economics
For refugees in Seattle, rising rents mean the search for home isn’t over
Tsegay
Jobs
Organizations try to fight ‘brain waste’ and get highly trained immigrants back to work
Ekk Sisavatdy, left, helps an incoming freshman at Highline College in Burien, Washington, as part of a program that assists Asian American and Pacific Islander students.
Education
Asian American students push to reveal what the ‘model minority’ myth hides
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.
Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
Orca leaping
Environment
Calling over boat noise is making endangered orcas hungrier
California turns to Chinese company, labor to build most of new Bay Bridge span
uber drivers
Business
Uber’s immigrant drivers look forward to better pay—and a bigger voice
momentia
Health
How strong friendships defy dementia
Vu Le mic drop
Business
Hey, you want nonprofits to act more like businesses? Treat them like businesses.
Can the US catch up to Russia in obtaining more icebreakers?
Global Politics
A new ‘cold war’ is emerging between the US and Russia — over icebreakers
A triple of posters from left to right: “Take Heed, Hold Fast the Rope of Mother Wit” by Shahrzad Changalvaee (Tehran); “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” by Darwin Fornés (Havana); “A Family X-Mas” by David Gallo (Seattle).
Arts
Linking Havana, Tehran and Seattle through art, posters
Workers sort arriving products at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Tracy, Calif.
Business
Amazon’s harsh hours might not fly at some foreign operations
Easton Glacier, Mount Baker
Environment
How will the Pacific Northwest change when its glaciers are gone?
Sideshow Podcast: How to Get Billy Idol to Play Your Birthday Party for Free
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Noel Gomez
Development
A conversation with Noel Gomez, sex trafficking survivor-turned-advocate
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Justice
This Seattle boy was just six when he was asked to protect an undocumented family
Beaver
Environment
Beavers are being looked at as little climate change fighting machines
Sea-Tac beekeepers
Science
A new home for honeybees, just off the tarmac
BNSF train on trestle
Environment
Ex-employees claim a major US freight railroad company has ignored key safety checks
BNSF train on trestle
Environment
Ex-employees claim a major US freight railroad company has ignored key safety checks
Thin filaments of fungi form a dense network between the roots of most of the world's food crops. Some researchers believe that working with such microbes rather than against them, as has often been the case in conventional agriculture, will help the worl
Environment
The future of agriculture may be too small to see. Think microbes
Comedian Hari Kondabolu recently released his first comedy album "Waiting for 2042," referring to the year the US Census estimates the country will be a majority-minority nation.
Arts, Culture & Media
This comedian mixes humor with human rights — but insists you pronounce his name right
Choi Jin-Hyuk is an actor on the popular Korean drama series 'Heirs' about wealthy Korean high school students who wrestle with social hierarchies and romance.
Arts, Culture & Media
Your next big, addictive TV series could be from South Korea
Sports
Why are Canadians cheering for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl?
Pete Knutson and his son Dylan sell local Pacific salmon at outdoor markets around the Seattle area. The sign on their stall at a recent market in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood reads, “In response to multiple customer inquiries regarding the Fukushima i
Environment
Worried about radioactive ‘Fukushima’ fish in the US? Don’t be, scientists say
Lifestyle & Belief
New Year’s Resolution: Day by Day, Page by Page
Arts, Culture & Media
The Quest for Magical, Nutty Tasting Cheese from Northern Spain
Environment
Red crayfish invades Pacific Northwest waterways
Business, Economics and Jobs
Study find certain U.S. regions can keep poor people poor
Environment
Landslides more prevalent in Pacific Northwest as climate change indicates rain increase