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A black bear made a home for itself underneath a Los Angeles man's home weeks ago. He called in expert bear-evictors to solve the problem.
Arts & Culture
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of 2025 films that made a number of Best-of-the-Year lists: Josh Safdie’s "Marty Supreme" and Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s "The Secret Agent." -
Nathan Weinbender runs down his picks for the best 10 movies of 2025. -
Movie Reviews“The Secret Agent” is an intense study of what it meant to be a target of corrupt forces in 1970s Brazil, Dan Webster says.
Events
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Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival -
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Tune to SPR News Saturday, December 6, 2025 from 6-7:30 pm to hear holiday favorites played by local musicians.
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The fallout from the US attack on Venezuela and the focus on oil interests have largely eclipsed urgent concerns about the country's entrenched human rights abuses and democratic erosion.
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When he was 6 years old, Thomas Sinclair wandered away from his family's campsite on Lake Superior and got lost. At dawn he heard a voice that has shaped his life ever since.
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Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell usually tries to avoid getting dragged into a fight with the Trump administration. But now that the DOJ has launched a probe of the central bank, he's on offense.
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Iran's government is cracking down hard on massive street protests. The number of demonstrators killed is believed to be soaring. Meanwhile, President Trump keeps suggesting the U.S. may get involved.
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President Trump doubles down on Iran threats as protests become deadlier, but also offers talks.
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Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks on its meaning.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and Giffords Executive Director Emma Brown about their efforts to stop gun violence.
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President Trump is ushering in yet another iteration of GOP foreign policy with his latest moves.
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The Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon has died at the age of 63.
