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Hillary Pham is running for a Washington state House seat in the Fourth District..
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Retired pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is known for safely landing an airplane on the Hudson River in 2009. This week, he announced that he has Alzheimer's disease.
Arts & Culture
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Director Rebecca Craven and actor Alyssa Day join host Henry McNulty in the studio to discuss the upcoming concert production of Next to Normal at Stage Left Theatre. -
The Love That Remains is an offbeat drama about nature, fate and an Icelandic family coming apart at the seams. It’s now streaming on the Criterion Channel, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s weird, compelling and, if you can get on its level, deeply rewarding.
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Events
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EventsSPR is a Media Partner for Rock the Block: West Central! We will also have a Record Sale Pop-Up Shop at the event! -
EventsJoin SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2026 -
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 little girl dreams of color and a detective dreams of truth as he tries to catch a serial killer in communist Romania: NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ona Aristide about her new novel, "Astronaut!"
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A unique public-private endowment has long shielded Nebraska's cultural scene from federal budget cuts. But a massive state deficit is putting its future in jeopardy. -
Writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack describe The Invite as a sex comedy that's not really about sex. Kaye began working with Patti Smith in 1971. His new solo album is Goin' Local. -
Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday. -
We look at a new soccer study that says "header" goals are becoming less frequent -- but more accurate -- in FIFA World Cup tournaments.
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Japan has revised its laws to prevent the world's oldest hereditary monarchy from running out of heirs. But they have left in place a ban on female emperors, an idea which most Japanese support.
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From Buenos Aires to Barcelona, fans are dreaming, waiting and wondering: who will lift the World Cup on Sunday?
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More than halfway through the primary elections, the map of competitive Senate races is becoming clearer, though there are still outstanding races to watch.
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We trace the origins of the popular aquarium fish the cardinal tetra back to the Amazon to see how even the most remote corners of the world are transformed by the global economy.
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Human-caused climate change is driving many of the wildfires burning across Canada. What's harder to say is how much worse the planet is because of warming global temperatures.
