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Plus, restrictions on Washington's citizen initiative die in the legislature, Spokane wants to prohibit ICE detention centers on private property and Kootenai County shoots down a potential collaboration with Spokane Transit.
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Anthropic is one of the world's most powerful AI firms. New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains how they're trying to make chatbot Claude more ethical, and the implications of AI's widening use.
Arts & Culture
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Pianist Yun Park plays music of Beethoven and chats about her upcoming all-Beethoven recital -
Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss three movies that focus on characters and how they interact, both positively and negatively, with the communities to which they belong—or, in some cases, merely encounter. They begin with “Magellan,” a film about the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. And they follow up with “The Plague” and “Peter Hujar’s Day.” -
Movie Reviews“The Plague” is a study of middle-school angst that relies on its similarity to William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies,” Dan Webster says.
Events
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Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival -
We are no longer accepting donations for the 2026 Record Sale
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National Park advocates and educators have sued to stop the Trump administration from taking down park displays about slavery, Native American removal, and other ugly chapters in U.S. history.
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The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people. -
U.S. and Iran say they'll continue talks as both ramp up military forces, Paramount makes a final play for Warner Bros. Discovery, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in social media addiction trial.
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NPR's A Martínez asks Mumford and Sons' frontman, Marcus Mumford, about the band's new album "Prizefighter."
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Ali Akbar, a 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan, has been hawking papers on the streets of Paris for the last 50 years. French President Emmanuel Macron honored him with a knighthood late last month.
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Six backcountry skiers who survived an avalanche in California Tuesday have been rescued. The sheriff's office said the search for the nine remaining skiers is ongoing.
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The NHL stars Matthew and Brady Tkachuk are elite at getting under their opponents' skin. But at the Olympics, where they are crucial to Team USA's hockey hopes, fans are pressing pause on the hate. -
As CBS's parent company makes a final play for Warner Bros. Discovery, CBS faces scrutiny over claims it blocked a Stephen Colbert interview while Anderson Cooper stepped down from 60 Minutes.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Rep. Sam Liccardo of California about the takeover talks between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with two people connected to Carter G. Woodson, the forefather of Black History Month, to discuss its 100th anniversary.
