Pacific NW Magazine

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Jack Healy |Leo Dominguez |Seamus Hughes

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A federal judge this week dismissed charges against nearly 100 people detained under a Trump administration effort to arrest migrants for trespassing on a newly declared “national defense” zone along New Mexico’s border with Mexico. The order from a federal magistrate judge, Gregory B.

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Vivian Nereim

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — When President Donald Trump declared from the stage of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia that the United States was done nation-building and intervening, that the world’s superpower would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live,” his audience erupted in applause. He was effectively denouncing decades of American policy in the Middle East, playing to grievances long aired in cafes and sitting rooms from Morocco to Oman.

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Christopher Maag

Edan Alexander was kept hostage underground for 583 days in the tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip. After he was released Monday evening, he stood in a plain white room on an Israeli military base as his mother rushed in. They hugged and cried with joy and wept. Adi Alexander, Edan’s father, wanted to join their embrace. Instead he waited down the hall. For more than a year and a half, Adi Alexander had relied on discipline to survive the ordeal of his son’s capture.

2 days ago | seattletimes.com | Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed three bills to protect immigrant rights this week. These included measures to strengthen state power to inspect private detention facilities, prevent coercion in the workplace, and prohibit bail bond agents from enforcing immigration laws. Lawmakers put forward the legislation as President Donald Trump is cracking down on people crossing into the country illegally and as his administration presses to deport immigrants in the U.S. without legal authorization.

2 days ago | seattletimes.com | Mark Gurman

Apple is developing a feature for its Vision Pro headset that lets users scroll through software with their eyes, aiming to enhance the device with a novel interface. The eye-scrolling capability is being tested as part of visionOS 3, an upcoming version of the Vision Pro’s operating system, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Already, the headset lets users navigate the software by looking at objects and then selecting them by pinching their fingers.