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Idaho US Rep. Simpson hopes to increase resources for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis
Simpson chairs congressional subcommittee that oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget, and it approved a 26% increase for the agency
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President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.
Arts & Culture
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This week, Movies 101 will tackle a pair of films that have little, if anything, in common … save for something plot-oriented that smacks of mystery. The first is the big-budget sci-fi survival adventure title, pun intended, “The End of Oak Street.” The other is the Japanese historical study “The Samurai and the Prisoner.” -
The End of Oak Street is a standard family-in-crisis movie with a fantastical dystopian conceit, Dan Webster says.
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Jim Tevenan and guests discuss the North Idaho Philharmonia's upcoming production of Carl Orff's beloved cantata, "Carmina Burana"
Events
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EventsStop by your local Farmers' Market this summer and visit with SPR staff and volunteers at various Farmers' Markets in our region. -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for the 2026 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival -
SPR was a Media Partner for Rock the Block: West Central! We also hosted our first-ever Record Sale Pop-Up Shop at the event!
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Meta's settlement with states in a child safety case this week had a big payout, but the attorneys general have their eyes on a bigger prize: national regulation of social media companies.
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A new study found a high proportion of NFL players develop brain trauma, but it is unclear what this means for youth football players.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the legal drama in college football as professional players attempt to come back to campus and the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
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Maine's lobster fishing industry is closely integrated with processors across the border in Canada. People who depend on it are feeling whiplash from on-again, off-again tariff threats.
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The trade war escalated between the U.S. and Canada, and the Trump administration tried to cut off Iran economically. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Wendy Cutler of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
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People have been avoiding lettuce this summer. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel, who says we really should just skip the lettuce, permanently.
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President Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America to provoke Canadian leaders. Meanwhile, the new Fed chair says inflation continues to be a problem.
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The Dollywood theme park in Tennessee is a tribute to the late singer and will go on without her.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks about how cities must change to survive deadly heat waves with Georgia Tech researcher Brian Stone.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anthony Field, of the hit musical group The Wiggles, about making a career out of entertaining toddlers.
