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Secretary of State Phil McGrane stressed that the issue needs to be quickly resolved by the courts to meet upcoming November ballot deadlines
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President Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America."
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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Over 400 people were killed by the flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to give a speech Friday, Judge hears argument in fight to restore Trump's name to Kennedy Center.
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A conversation with Mike D of The Beastie Boys, whose new release "Thank You" is the first solo album from a member of the hip-hop trio.
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A war that was supposed to last weeks and end Iran's Islamic regime has now been underway for six months. People inside Iran who were initially hopeful have grown increasingly disillusioned.
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Palestinians have started burning and banning kids kites after Israel says they'll treat them as hostile acts if they blow across the border.
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New Trump-led proposals to change how federal grants are decided could spell trouble for blue cities and states, The Indicator reports.
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The jury has begun deliberating in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Boston-area mother accused of murdering her three young children.
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A conservative group is planning cash prizes for State Department employees who fight DEI and help deport migrants.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wilcox, with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about what investors and economists are hoping to hear from the Fed chair's speech Friday.
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch this weekend, may shed new light on the nature of dark energy -- that mysterious force causing the universe to expand.
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Congressional Democrats are preparing for a new kind of midterm challenge: The risk that President Trump will attempt to undermine November's elections by claiming fraud or interfering with voting.
