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Gov. Jay Inslee has moved up the timeline for lifting Washington's mask mandate to March 12. The announcement comes as lawmakers are in the final stretch of the legislative session. Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins joined Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick to talk about the latest from the state capital.

The crisis in Afghanistan has reopened painful wounds for many of the 2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. It has also spurred many — including a Seattle doctor who was 9 years old when her family arrived in the U.S. from Vietnam in the 1980s — to assist newly arriving Afghans.

A community garden in Kent is in the spotlight as an example of climate action that empowers people who are disproportionally impacted by climate…

A new weeklong exhibit at Seattle’s South Lake Union Discovery Center aims to give people a better understanding of the stress of having to flee your…

The Trump administration’s travel restrictions are causing complications for refugees and groups that resettle them in the Seattle area.In a decision last…

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with part of its travel ban while a court case is pending. The decision came…

Not since World War II have there been so many people who've fled their homes due to conflict. And children are hit especially hard by the crisis.

Across the U.S., locals are hosting meals designed to help the community meet the refugees who live among them as neighbors, and to break barriers by breaking bread together.

People fleeing South Sudan's brutal civil war have streamed across the border to Uganda, where the Bidi Bidi camp now hosts more than 270,000 people. It's become the biggest refugee camp in the world.

Life Overtakes Me, a short documentary, is about refugee children who fall into a comalike state. We interviewed the author of a New Yorker article about this condition.