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Agencies are reporting tens of millions of dollars in stalled grant funding for a range of infrastructure and environmental projects.
Arab American voters in Michigan helped President Trump win the state during the presidential election. A look at how voters in Michigan feel now about Trump's idea to take over Gaza
Arts & Culture
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The Iranian-German co-production “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is currently nominated for the best international film Oscar. It has a turbulent making-of story, but Nathan Weinbender says the movie itself is just as intense and impossible to look away from.
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two late arrivals that deserve to be listed among the very best films that 2024 had to offer. The first is “Nickel Boys,” a drama about two young men confined to a Florida reform school, and the second is “September 5,” which tells the story of the ABC Sports team that covered the terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games.
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Director Leslie Stamoolis and three cast members (Sydney Lai, Alex Smith, and Jordan Salazar) join Henry McNulty in the studio to discuss their one-of-a-kind I Wish Ma Could Vote: An Evening of Women's Suffrage Plays.
Events
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EventsThe free concert is happening March 1 at 1 PM at 1110 W. Riverside Ave.
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EventsThe 2025 Record Sale is coming up February 15 and 16 at CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Spokane Valley
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SPR holds 45th Anniversary Open House January 23rd from 4-7 pm
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President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at preventing transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. It's the latest in a series of actions focused on "gender ideology."
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns."
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Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.
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In the first major Israeli-Arab war in 1948, many Palestinians were driven from their homes and sought shelter in Gaza. The descendants of those refugees make up most of Gaza's population today.
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A Stradivarius crafted in 1714 goes up for auction this week. Sotheby's expects it to fetch between $12 and $18 million.
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A fierce outbreak of fighting in northern Colombia between rival guerilla factions in a drug turf war, has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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The U.S. secretary of state continues his travels around Central America, while at home and abroad, USAID workers try to absorb the news that their agency is in freefall.
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Researchers are reporting mass die offs of wild birds and sea mammals due to bird flu. They're tracking the deaths to better understand the virus and how it might create a greater threat to humans.
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Waffle House, the 24-hour roadside diner of the East Coast is charging has started a 50 cent surcharge for eggs because of rapidly rising egg prices.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.