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In case you hadn't noticed, our region has been growing fast. By this June, a major milestone will be official: The Puget Sound region’s population will be more than 4 million people. KUOW’s Region of Boom team is playing welcoming committee to the new guy, whoever that may be.

Universities in Washington state are scrambling to respond to President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.

Kim Malcolm talks with Nicky Smith about how President Trump's refugee ban will impact refugee families living in the Puget Sound region. Smith is executive director of Seattle's office of the International Rescue Committee .

Thousands protested in downtown Seattle last night against President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration and refugees.

Traffic engineers have a nickname for the years 2019 to 2021, when a slew of new megaprojects will get underway in downtown Seattle around the same time. They call it “The Period of Maximum Constraint.” Translated into plainspeak, it means during those three years, we’ll be up the creek in a leaky canoe without a paddle.

The protest was packed before it was scheduled to begin. Bodies were crowded in tight at Westlake Park as thousands of people gathered to protest President Trump's executive order on immigration, which had already sparked protests at Sea-Tac International Airport the night before.

This week was meant to be a reunion for the Al Halabi family. They’re Syrian refugees who live just south of Seattle. Two grown children, still in Turkey, were set to fly here Monday. One of them is almost seven months pregnant. But the president’s immigration ban means they’ll remain separated indefinitely.

Father Tim Clark found this Sunday's Christian scripture particularly relevant to the turmoil over President Donald Trump’s orders on refugees and immigrants. It was Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, where he blesses the meek and the merciful.

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 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.

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 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.

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