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Spokane resident Travis Baldree is a former video game programmer, a current audiobook narrator and an author. He wrote "Legens & Lattes," a cozy fantasy book that is getting a graphic novel adaptation coming out Oct. 6. SPR's Lisa Leinberger sat down with him to talk.
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Questions continue to swirl around a U.K. military base and potential Iran-backed attacks.
Arts & Culture
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Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime takes a critical look at the man behind the television show “To Catch a Predator,” Dan Webster says.
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In Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, the host of “To Catch a Predator” on the hunt for ratings and journalistic recognition. Nathan Weinbender says the movie is a simplistic but oddly compelling true-life horror story.
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Spokane Symphony Music Director James Lowe and From the Studio host Jim Tevenan talk about the second Masterworks program of the new SSO season.
Events
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EventsTune in to SPR News to hear live broadcasts of conversations with the candidates for the 3rd, 4th, and 6th Washington State Legislative Districts. -
EventsStop by your local Farmers' Market this summer and visit with SPR staff and volunteers at various Farmers' Markets in our region.
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A former German foreign intelligence chief will appear in court Wednesday following allegations he used classified information for commercial gain.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with former CIA senior executive clandestine service officer Daniel Hoffman about the espionage allegations against the former German spy chief and modern espionage.
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Israel remembers those killed on Oct. 7, three years after the Hamas attack that triggered wars across the region.
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NPR's A Martinez asks Israeli pollster and journalist Dahlia Scheindlin how the political legacy and future of Israel's prime minister have changed since the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.
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Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. -
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin Madison, who built an observatory under Antarctica.
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Germany's former foreign intelligence agency chief has been arrested on suspicion of treasonous espionage. A former high-ranking aide has also been arrested.
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French high school students are marched together as they demanded better learning conditions at their schools. Several hundred thousand students turned out in cities across France.
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Midterm candidates are talking about Medicare for All, and two out of three Americans tell pollsters they support it. It speaks to the desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.
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Five years after the U.S.'s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban remains firmly in power. Here's how the Taliban doing in terms of foreign policy.
