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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle is suing President Donald Trump over his executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from communities that refuse to cooperate with efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. Mayor Ed Murray said Wednesday the executive order issued in January punishing "sanctuary cities" is unconstitutional...

**Fuels America, a coalition of biofuels advocates, says it has “severed ties” with the Renewable Fuels Association, accusing the group of siding with billionaire investor and refinery owner Carl Icahn in a plan, denied by the White House, that would “permanently destabilize the Renewable Fuel Standard...

SEATTLE (AP) — Airport officials and civil rights lawyers are preparing for President Donald Trump's new travel ban. They're mindful of the chaos that accompanied his initial executive order but hopeful the forthcoming version will be rolled out in a more orderly way...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused a request from the U.S. Justice Department to put President Donald Trump's travel ban case on hold until he issues a new executive order. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn't give an explanation Monday for denying the request but said it would extend until next week the deadline for the government's opening brief in

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Arguments over President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration have concluded in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The final minutes of the hearing were largely devoted to whether the travel ban was intended to discriminate against Muslims...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle judge derided by President Donald Trump on Twitter after blocking Trump's executive order on immigration is known for his conservative legal views, for a record of helping disadvantaged children that includes fostering six of them, and for dramatically declaring "black lives matter" during a hearing on police reform in 2015...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Democratic members of the Washington state Legislature have sent a letter to President Donald Trump decrying his recent executive order on immigration. The letter, signed by all 74 Democrats in the state House and Senate, was sent Tuesday...

SEATTLE (AP) — An immigration rights group has filed a federal class-action lawsuit saying President Trump's executive order is blocking efforts by legal residents to reunite with their children. Trump's order prohibits entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries...

Washington State is the first state in the nation to sue the Trump Administration over it's executive order restricting refugees from seven countries for 120 days. The order has resulted in protests around the country and a lot of talk at the water cooler...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says the Seattle-based company is prepared to support a lawsuit being brought by Washington state's attorney general against President Donald Trump and the administration over Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees...