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Muwafag Gasim, a construction engineer in Seattle, touched down at Sea-Tac International Airport at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday. He lined up with his fellow passengers to present his passport and visa to U.S. Customs and Border Protection – a step required of passengers flying in from abroad.

It’s been an emotional weekend for Washington residents hoping to reunite with family as officials tried to enforce President Trump’s travel ban on immigrants and refugees arriving from certain predominantly Muslim countries. Democrats have condemned the travel ban. Reaction from the state’s Republican congressional delegation has been somewhat mixed.

An inquest is scheduled to get underway at the King County Courthouse this week in the death of Che Taylor. In February 2016, Taylor was shot by Seattle police in the Wedgwood neighborhood. Now a jury will hear more facts of the case.

When Tyrone Beason called his father after Donald Trump was elected, the conversation didn’t start in the turmoil of the present. “He started to talk about segregation, those ugly times in his formative years that shaped his understanding not only of what it was to be black but what it was to be white,” Beason told KUOW’s Jamala Henderson.

Carl Livingston sees the troubles facing African American churches in Seattle as a test. Livingston told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that as the city has grown more expensive, congregations are surviving in part by cutting costs and seeking innovative ways to find income.

When officials at Sea-Tac International Airport got wind of President Donald Trump’s latest order, it came like a slap in the face. It was just before midnight on Friday when they learned there would be a temporary – but immediate – ban on all refugees and immigrants from several majority-Muslim countries.

You may have seen the movie Captain Fantastic . This week, actor Viggo Mortensen got an Academy Award nomination for his work in it.

Some Democrats in Congress say President Donald Trump's administration has broken the law in its handling of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Democrats and Republicans in Washington state will vote on their parties’ leadership this weekend. And the differences are stark.

When Juanita Ricks’ biracial daughter Alexandra tested into the highly gifted program, Ricks, who is black, and her then-husband, who is white, toured the school Alexandra would attend: Washington Middle School in the Central District.