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After majority Democrats refused to hold hearings, Republicans convened events where dozens of people spoke in support of measures on transgender athletes and parental rights.
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Ron Teasley, one of the last remaining veterans of the Negro Leagues, has died. A native of Detroit, Teasley sparkled on the baseball diamond. He was 99.
Arts & Culture
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William Berry and Andrea Olsen preview the upcoming Clarion Brass concert, Off the Charts -
Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss the recent Academy Awards nominations, the hits, the misses, the utter melodrama of it all. First, though, they take a look at "The Testament of Ann Lee," Mona Fastvold’s look at the woman who founded the offshoot of the Quaker church known as The Shakers. -
Movie Reviews“Is This Thing On?” is, uniquely enough, an upbeat yet emotionally truthful movie about divorce, Dan Webster says.
Events
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EventsThe 2026 Record Sale will take place February 14 and 15 at CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Spokane Valley -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival -
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ron Lieber, financial columnist for The New York Times, about the ins and outs of the newly created Trump Accounts.
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South Carolina released the newest numbers on its measles outbreak, and there's news of other cases around the country.
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The bipartisan budget that Trump just signed is a 180-turn from how funding for health agencies were slashed in 2025. But grantees and people in the agencies remain suspicious.
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Parkinson's disease can affect sleep, thinking and smell, as well as movement. A new study may explain why.
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The Trump administration is pulling hundreds of ICE agents from Minnesota — and allowing for the possibility of further drawdowns. Border czar Tom Homan says about 2-thousand officers will remain.
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to revoke Temporary Protected Status for some 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the U.S., for now.
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Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. airstrike last year are suing over what they call extrajudicial killings. It's the first such case to land in an American courthouse.
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The Washington Post is cutting a third of its staff, leading some to say owner Jeff Bezos should sell the company.
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The last major arms control treaty between Russian and the U.S. will expire on Thursday, but experts are cautiously optimistic that there won't be another arms race. At least not right away.
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The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new — instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.
