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Comedian, author and activist ALOK spoke with Owen Henderson about their work, LGBTQ+ equality and rejecting binaries in life.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China for a state visit this week. The invitation from his Chinese counterpart marks the first international trip of Putin's new term.
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Arts & Culture
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“The Beast” explores the dangers of AI, but in a way that even AI might not understand, Dan Webster says in his review. -
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Events
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EventsSpokane Public Radio is a media partner for Bike Everywhere Month 2024 -
EventsHear the MusicFest Northwest Live Broadcasts May 15, 16 and 17 from 10 a.m. to noon on KPBX 91.1 FM. -
Get your tickets to SPR’s inaugural "Firehouse Sessions Song Contest" Concert. Hear from our three winners, Anne Christine, The Red Books, and Time Baby, along with our two launch collaborators, Olivia Brownlee and T.S The Solution at the Bing on May 10, 2024.
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Michael Cohen is back on the stand for a second day of testimony against former President Donald Trump. Cohen testified about receiving payments that prosecutors argue are false business records.
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Credit card delinquencies rose in the first three months of the year. That's a sign of the growing financial stress that some families are feeling in an era of rising prices and high interest rates. -
There's a special education staffing crisis in a northern California school district. It means some of the district's most vulnerable students have missed weeks and even months of school.
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The Biden administration is quadrupling tariffs on China-made EVs. The tariffs are part of a broad swath of protectionist policies first imposed by former President Trump. -
Big primaries in Maryland and West Virginia could have implications for the Senate in November — and signal fights ahead for Democrats.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Leonard Rubenstein of Johns Hopkins University about the unprecedented Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and what international law could do to protect them.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Cassandra Nagley, who covers women's basketball for Yahoo Sports, about the WNBA season kickoff.
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Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died. One of his doctors talks about what was learned from the historic transplant.
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Writer and actor Issa Rae draws from the Wild Card deck and tells us about the guiding belief that helps her make sense of the world.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with law professor Kim Wehle about the second day of testimony from Michael Cohen in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
