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After a briefing from Seattle Police and the FBI, Mayor Katie Wilson reversed course on surveillance cameras and agreed to turn them on in Seattle's stadium district when the FIFA World Cup kicks off this month.
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More than 40 million adults in the U.S. aged 50 and older have osteopenia, or low bone density. An FDA-approved wearable vibration device is giving some women a tool that could slow that loss.
Arts & Culture
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Cast members from Spokane Civic Theatre's Jagged Little Pill join host Henry McNulty to discuss the production. -
Performance by four Eastern Washington University piano students , pupils of Dr. Jody Graves -
Nathan Weinbender reviews two new movies from important international directors: Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, from Romania, and Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, from Germany.
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. -
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EventsSpokane Public Radio is a media partner for Spokane Bike Everywhere Month 2026.
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Harpo Marx -- the "silent" Marx brother -- can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Josef Palermo, an artist and curator, about his tenure at the Kennedy Center and what its future might hold.
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There was a time when scandals were the death knell for political careers. But today, they're far from being career enders. Do scandals really not hold any power anymore?
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China's President Xi Jinping is in North Korea, his first trip in seven years, in a bid to reassert China's influence in the region.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Kimberly Adams, the new host of the economic news radio show and podcast "Marketplace Morning Report."
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President Trump walked out of an interview on Sunday's "Meet the Press" after being pressed on his repeated claims that the 2020 election and last week's California primaries were "rigged."
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of Inside Elections about Tuesday's primaries in four states and how President Trump could affect the odds for his party.
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The arson trial of the man accused of sparking the Palisades Fire, which killed a dozen people and destroyed nearly 7,000 structures, starts this week.
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With games spread over 38 days and 11 cities, the World Cup is the biggest crowd security challenge U.S. law enforcement has ever faced. Homeland Security's extended shutdown complicated matters.
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Workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have voted to authorize a strike and could walk off the job ahead of this Friday's first World Cup match in the U.S.
