Ban on trans girls in sports is leading in early returns, effort to repeal millionaires tax is trailing, and Amazon cuts more jobs in WA.

It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

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Grab a hot beverage.

We’re going to get right into early returns from yesterday’s midterm election, and there is plenty to talk about.

Statewide initiatives, races that will impact the balance of Congress and our state legislature, and some consequential votes at the city level.

Seattle Now host Paige Browning is here to break it all down.

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Mayor Wilson partially vetoes RV regulations, conservative money pours into WA's Supreme Court races, and the CDC rejects WA's request for a faster measles test.

It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

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Earlier this year, a Seattle woman died after she stopped taking her life-saving medication for epilepsy. She did so, after consulting ChatGPT. Her family is now suing OpenAI. We talk with UW professor Chirag Shah about AI's growing role in dispatching medical advice and how to navigate it.

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Some Washington immigration organizations are suing to stop Trump administration interference in the upcoming election, a dairy worker in Washington has died from bird flu, and the last original Reign player has retired.

It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

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Both Seattle and Tacoma have a lot of renters.

And when it comes to affordability, both renters and landlords say they’re going through it.

In Seattle, a lawsuit could help landlords and in Tacoma a ballot measure could ease pains for renters.

Seattle Times reporter Heidi Groover will break it down.

Read her reporting here, here, and here.

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As a percussionist with the Seattle Symphony, Eric Schweikert says you have to be willing to be silly.

“All the ridiculous stuff ends up in the percussion section. If you want bird whistles or pop guns, sound effects, trash cans falling on the ground, we're the guys that have to do it.”

But as the Seattle Symphony’s principal timpanist, Schweikert’s got chops. He’ll get to show off his musicality when the Seattle Symphony world premieres a timpani concerto on November 19, 2026, by composer Joseph Pereira. It’s called Virtù.

Schweikert tells KUOW’s Gabriel Spitzer how he explains his job to strangers – “The copper kettle drums, that's what I do.” And why some of his biggest influences have been high school drummers and Animal from The Muppets.

He also shares some of his all-time favorite timpani parts, including the theme from the 1960s television show, George In The Jungle. And of course, the theme from “2001: A Space Odyssey”, which is a tone poem originally composed by Richard Strauss.

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Today, we’re helping you prep for next week’s election with KUOW’s “Soundside.”

Don’t forget, your ballot is due in a ballot box on Tuesday night.

This year, Washington voters will decide if they want to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports.

Initiative 638 has become one of the state's most contentious items of the ballot and it reflects a broader cultural divide on this issue across the country.

Parents, lawmakers and more shared their thoughts with Soundside, on what this initiative would mean for girls' sports.

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