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Top Regional News
Second judge blocks Trump citizenship executive order; bill aims to help defrauded WA insurance customers recoup costs; ID high court rejects von Ehlinger's appeal; union believes Boeing violated collective bargaining agreements in layoffs; raises to come for ID state employees; firing squad bill goes to ID Senate.
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It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February. Meanwhile, it's the mildest COVID winter since the pandemic began.
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Arts & Culture
  • Movie Reviews
    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.
  • Movies 101
    On 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.
  • 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."
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