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State says number of active OB-GYN licenses doesn’t reliably reflect how many doctors are actively practicing maternal healthcare in Idaho
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Budget cuts have gutted the Pentagon's efforts to find and identify troops still missing from the Vietnam War, even as aging family members run out of time to see their loved ones brought home.
Arts & Culture
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Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
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The Odyssey is less a depiction of the Homeric poem than it is a reflection of Christopher Nolan’s trademark themes, Dan Webster says.
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This week, Movies 101 will be discussing three movies made by foreign directors. They are the haunting British time-travel tale “Rose of Nevada,” the Icelandic domestic study “The Love That Remains” and the Croatian historical documentary “Fiume o Morte!
Events
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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! -
Thank you for joining SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2026!
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Newsletter platform Substack recently unveiled a new feature that allows users to scan posts of 100 words or more to find out what percentage was AI — and it's polarized the community.
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The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold for the second time in two years. The new minority ownership stake holders, Bob Iger and Josh Kushner – brother to President Trump's son in law – Jared Kushner.
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Sailors and family members who were evacuated from U.S. bases in the Middle East months ago are waiting for the military to figure out what will happen to the lives they left behind.
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Amid record-setting attacks by settlers, Palestinian workers in the West Bank try to balance their need to earn a living working for Israeli factories and their anger towards the occupation.
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A mom is on trial for killing her children. Her defense says she had post-partum psychosis. Psychiatrists hope the case brings attention to the need for better diagnosis and treatment for the illness.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Amanda Litman, co-founder of the PAC Run For Something, about the results from the Aug. 11 Democratic primary elections.
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Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism, and profit.
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A special GOP primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on the ballot in November in South Carolina is headed to a runoff.
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K-pop has conquered the world. Now, Chile's young creatives are remixing the movement and making it their own.
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A sheriff in the Florida panhandle has gone all in on federal immigration enforcement. The state rewarded his department with almost $9 million in incentives.
