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Idaho doesn’t investigate jail deaths or require counties to report them — leaving jail officials to decide what to tell the public.
Before it was a state, Colorado was part of Mexico. Evidence of its Mexican roots aren't always obvious unless one knows where to look.
Arts & Culture
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Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” came out last week to dismal box office receipts and venomous reviews. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a fascinating failure, a bizarre and singular vision from a filmmaker contending with his own career—and his own mortality. -
On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that roll over boundaries as if they were so much roadkill—Francis Ford Coppola’s reach into the fantastic titled “Megalopolis” and French-born filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s feminist study “The Substance.” -
Conductor Darko Butorac and flute soloist Julia Pyke talk about the next Spokane Symphony concert
Events
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The next Free KPBX Kids' Concert features The Radio Helpers in the Great Room at CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Saturday, November 23rd at 1 pm -
EventsSPR is a media partner for BODYTRAFFIC at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on the Gonzaga University campus, Saturday, October 19th. -
September's Free KPBX Kids' Concert featured Olivia Brownlee in the River Park Square Atrium Saturday, September 21st at 1 pm
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Raneem Hijazi was eight months pregnant when an Israeli airstrike hit the apartment where she lived, killing her son and seven family members. She delivered her daughter via C-section shortly after.
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Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.
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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University's John Hopfield for their work on artificial intelligence.
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Major Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm's arrival.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.
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The ATF classifies the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, but kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority. -
More young people are attracted to musical theater because of popular shows like “Hamilton” and “Hadestown.” Students who want to be part of the performances may turn to a vocal coach for help.
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The EPA is finalizing a rule to require replacement of lead service lines that connect homes to water systems. The change would lower lead levels in drinking water but poses logistical challenges.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with D.C. AG Brian Schwalb about the new lawsuit against TikTok alleging that the social media platform causes harm to kids and operates in an illegal virtual economy.
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Housing affordability and how best to spur new construction have become election issues. Austin, Texas, has seen a historic building boom that has lowered rents. Is it scalable to other cities?
