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Plus, no data center moratorium for Spokane County, at least for now, and crews make progress on two Boundary County wildfires, despite the dry conditions.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced a barrage of questions about the war with Iran from lawmakers on Tuesday, as the administration seeks more money for the escalating conflict.
Arts & Culture
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Maddie’s Secret, from comedian John Early, is a hard film to classify. It plays like an homage to a 1980s TV movie about a woman with an eating disorder, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s a surprisingly thoughtful and sometimes absurd study of an often-mocked genre.
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Movie ReviewsWith his film Fiume o Morte! director Igor Berzinović uses a novel way of telling the history of a troubled city, Dan Webster says. -
85 years ago, Orson Welles released his debut feature Citizen Kane, and movies were never the same. In the decades since, it has been exhaustively analyzed; the subject of countless books, documentaries and biopics; and regularly cited as the greatest American movie.
Events
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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! -
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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Trump will attend the dignified transfer of U.S. service members, Pete Hegseth defends Iran war funding request, Trump-backed candidates won nominations for governor and a key House race in Arizona.
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Public health officials acknowledge they need to shed paternalistic messaging if they want to reach more people. The nominee to run the CDC says she will strike a new tone.
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A village destroyed. A home erased. One poet returns to remember what was lost.
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Indigenous people in Taiwan complete a journey to the Philippines in a traditional rowboat, recreating a journey their ancestors made thousands of years ago.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fires the country's army chief, just days after he dismissed the defense minister. Those two key figures had been feuding with each other.
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In some states, farmers must adjust to changes in the Farm Bill that closed a loophole they used to grow hemp for use in THC products.
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Climate change is making night time hotter around the world. That's eroding one of our most important biological processes which is sleep.
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Actor Javier Bardem attended just about every match Spain played at this year's World Cup, including their victory in the championship game.
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President Trump insists Iran is ready to make a deal, but the fighting hasn't stopped after nearly five months.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to former U.S. ambassador Daniel Shapiro, who held a senior role at the Pentagon when Houthis attacked Red Sea shipping in 2023 and 2024.
