There’s a draft of an open letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council that’s been making the rounds on social media and racking up signatures over the past few days. The request: divert $8 million from SPD’s $68 million proposed budget increase and give that money to the arts. The reasoning? Art […]

He might have a lucky (political) horseshoe.

Working with progressive Council allies, the Emerald City's newest chief executive has begun delivering changes residents can see and feel, but her first budget proposal raises harder questions about sustaining public services and meeting the city’s needs.

According to Mayor Katie Wilson’s public safety director, there are around 24 qualified applicants for the job so far.

Costco directs most tariff recoveries toward everyday goods

Officer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

FRONTLINE investigates the Obama administration's get-tough immigration policy.

The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

YouTube video by Philip DeFranco

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...