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Democratic budget writers want to reduce state reimbursements for providers, based on how often children attend day care.
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Warner Bros. says Paramount's sweetened bid to buy the whole company is "superior" to an $83 billion deal it struck with Netflix for just its streaming services, studios, and intellectual property.
Arts & Culture
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The Spokane International Film Festival visits the SPR studio to discuss this year's SpIFF events. -
Movie ReviewsEveryone already has a strong opinion about Emerald Fennell’s maximalist retelling of “Wuthering Heights.” Nathan Weinbender is no exception: He says the movie is dramatically murky, emotionally inert and generally unbearable.
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of movies that feature characters in various stages of duress. The first is the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel “Wuthering Heights.” They follow that with the wild time-travel venture “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.”
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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Researchers of online extremism say lack of public accountability in relation to the release of the latest Epstein files has bred a worrying mixture of cynicism and nihilism in some online spaces.
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Wall Street's AI worries are getting stranger. Chip company Nvidia reported record-breaking earnings on Wednesday, but tech investors are still panicking.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the singer-songwriter Bill Callahan about his new album My Days of 58.
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Older residents of Kyiv's many high-rises are learning to live with intermittent heat and electricity, cut off by Russian attacks.
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The official memorials for Jesse Jackson began this week. The late civil rights leader is lying in repose at his Rainbow-Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago Thursday and Friday.
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In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, about his continued efforts to limit President Trump's ability to use military force through war powers resolutions.
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Indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran have wrapped, and a deal was not reached on Tehran's nuclear program. NPR's weekly national security podcast Sources & Methods explores what's next.
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NPR Music's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports on the artists making waves on the pop charts. Taylor Swift is now back at number one on the Hot 100. But Bad Bunny hasn't gone anywhere.
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Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.
