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A wood thrush, photographed in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Planting trees in DC to help save Caribbean songbirds

Environment

A project underway in Washington, DC, is helping to protect habitats for struggling songbirds coming up from the Caribbean and Latin America. And children whose families come from the same regions as the birds are helping out.

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Organizations try to fight ‘brain waste’ and get highly trained immigrants back to work

Jobs
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.

Asian American students push to reveal what the ‘model minority’ myth hides

Education
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval office for the first time since the Israeli leader lost his battle against the Iran nuclear deal.

‘Palestinians are knee deep in despair, and Israelis are knee deep in denial’

Conflict
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Environmentalists and coal interests fight it out in a small Washington State election

Environment

Details emerge about circumstances leading up to Afghan civilian massacre

Though the U.S. Army continues to withhold the name of the staff sergeant accused of massacring 16 Afghan civilians, some of the details of his life and his actions before the killing are beginning to come out.

What Starbucks says about America

Business, Economics and Jobs

There may be a parable in the meteoric rise of Starbucks Coffee shops and America.

Budget Fights Shape Up in Washington

One thing we know, or can be pretty sure about, is that long after there is a new pope at the Vatican, the bickering over the next U.S. Federal Budget will continue, and in Congress there is no pope to hurry things along. Congress will soon be considering as many as three budget proposals. There’ll […]

Sequester Causes Problems for Toxic Waste Cleanup

An announcement by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee this week has nuclear energy watchdogs concerned: Six underground radioactive waste tanks at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear reservation are leaking. The tanks hold highly radioactive waste, produced over decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons. The government spends billions of dollars annually on cleanup efforts at the site. […]

The State of the Union in Seattle, Detroit, and Phoenix

We continue now with our on-the-ground look at the state of something other than the union President Obama will talk about tonight in his State of the Union Speech. We do know the president will announce that by next January half of the troops in Afghanistan will be home, so what is the state of […]

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