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Billions in funding were cut under President Trump were restored in 2026. Now, watchdogs say the administration is finding other ways to withhold money – and scientists are feeling the consequences.
Arts & Culture
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that put characters in difficult situations. The first is “I Swear,” the based-on-real-events story of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome. The other is “Mother Mary,” a film starring Anne Hathaway as a pop star attempting a comeback who is forced to face secrets from her past. -
Movie Reviews“I Swear” is a look at the life and struggles of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome and the ignorance surrounding it, Dan Webster says. -
A hangout comedy set in 2011 Montreal, Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks follows a burgeoning music writer in a community of wannabe rock stars and artists. Nathan Weinbender says it uncannily captures its time and place, like a millennial version of Almost Famous.
Events
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EventsSpokane Public Radio is a media partner for Spokane Bike Everywhere Month 2026. -
Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026
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Spokane Public Radio is seeking a Production Assistant to support our studio production needs.
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A Missouri resident was deported earlier this year to the Netherlands, a country he left when he was 5 years old. Now he's learning the language and trying to make a new life.
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Drought conditions in Florida are so bad that some lakes are drying up and alligators are running out of room.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, about living in a war economy.
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Hebrew Union College, the oldest Jewish seminary in the United States, was established in 1875 in Cincinnati by the founder of Reform Judaism in North America. The college has other campuses, but its rabbinical program in Cincinnati will shut down and graduate its last four students at the end of the first week in May.
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One of the Tiny Desk Contest judges introduces us to finalists Les Greene and the Swayzees, a group based in Miami, Fla.
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The hugely popular prediction market was shut down by U.S. regulators in 2022 and re-opened in Panama, where it has benefited from tax and legal benefits for years. -
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking. -
Two musicals are tied with 12 nominations each: a special-effects-crammed The Lost Boys, and the candy-colored satire Schmigadoon! The Pulitzer-winning Liberation was nominated for Best Play. -
The U.S. military announced the launch of an operation to end Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and reopen the waterway to global shipping traffic.
