Today the mayor made an announcement: Seattle will expand the number of shelter beds available to the homeless. KUOW's Kate Walters was briefed on this, and she joined Bill Radke in studio to explain.

We all have those words. The ones you hesitate to say because you've only ever seen them written (which have a large overlap with the ones you realize you've been using wrong for your entire life). Where do you go to be enlightened? To the dictionary, of course. Merriam-Webster editor-in-chief Peter Sokolowski says the data from those lookups can move words onto a list of ones to watch - a status recently achieved by "thirst trap."

Today the mayor made an announcement: Seattle will expand the number of shelter beds available to the homeless. KUOW's Kate Walters was briefed on this, and she joined Bill Radke in studio to explain.

Assumptions about which passport line you belong in, the president's so-called Muslim ban, "random" screening that seems to target certain populations - airports are increasingly a frontier of ethnic and religious bias. Could we bypass some of those problems by taking the human element out of screening?

If you went in search of a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, you may have come up empty-handed. Across the nation, Starbucks stores closed for a 4 hour training session on racial bias.

Don't bother trying to get that afternoon slump-curing coffee. Starbucks stores across the nation are closed for racial bias training. But can we train our way out of our biases? We asked Tony Greenwald, a University of Washington psychology professor and one of the creators of the Implicit Association Test.

Bill Radke reviews the news of the weekend, including the controversy over the three finalists chosen for Seattle's next police chief. Interim Police Chief Carmen Best is not among them.

America's stormy relationship with North Korea is not quite dead yet... but we're definitely simmering the isolated nation. The president has canceled a proposed June 12th meeting with Kim Jong Un, but says it could still happen. Don Hellman, professor emeritus at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies, weighs the odds.

Seattle is a growing city. Roads have gotten more congested, trails more crowded and housing prices have been on a steady climb up. So what brings people into the city, and once they are here, why do they stay?

Ross Reynolds talks to Don Hellmann , professor emeritus at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, about what happens now that President Trump has pulled out of the June summit with North Korea. The move comes after North Korea issued a statement emphasizing their own arsenal and calling Vice President Mike Pence a "political dummy."