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The state Employment Security Department is offering free webinars to all federal workers in the state who’ve been subject to job cuts, covering topics like applying for federal unemployment insurance and skills training opportunities from area schools.
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Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has struck a groundbreaking deal with the Green party. The agreement ends a tradition of fiscal austerity in order to rearm, help Ukraine and build infrastructure.
Arts & Culture
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![From left: 26th Annual SpIFF logos and assorted film stills from La estrella que perdí [The Star I Lost] (2024), I Am Gitxsan (2024), A Good Wolf (2024), Vision Quest (1985), Tim Travers & the Time Traveler's Paradox (2024), and The Birds Who Fear Death (2024); Mikey Madison with her Best Actress Oscar in the 97th Academy Awards broadcast.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5525621/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x713+0+3/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcf%2F6a%2F09354c3e45ebb95449391566b8a0%2Fmovies-101-thumbnail-3-7-25.png)
Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart preview this year's Spokane International Film Festival, which began March 7th and ran through the 9th. They also have a few words to say about the recent Oscars broadcast. -
Movie Reviews“Universal Language” is a true sleeper, a Canadian comedy that imagines a version of Winnipeg that has an Iranian cultural influence. The movie is opening at the Magic Lantern, and Nathan Weinbender says you should give it a shot.
![From left: 26th Annual SpIFF logos and assorted film stills from La estrella que perdí [The Star I Lost] (2024), I Am Gitxsan (2024), A Good Wolf (2024), Vision Quest (1985), Tim Travers & the Time Traveler's Paradox (2024), and The Birds Who Fear Death (2024); Mikey Madison with her Best Actress Oscar in the 97th Academy Awards broadcast.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b0c3d58/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x713+0+3/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcf%2F6a%2F09354c3e45ebb95449391566b8a0%2Fmovies-101-thumbnail-3-7-25.png)
Events
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SPR is a media partner for BODYTRAFFIC at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on the Gonzaga University campus, Saturday, October 19th. -
September's Free KPBX Kids' Concert featured Olivia Brownlee in the River Park Square Atrium Saturday, September 21st at 1 pm -
Spokane Public Radio is a media partner for the 2024 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival
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The Senate will vote Friday on a GOP spending bill. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he will vote to support the bill to avert a government shutdown. Hear the latest developments.
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NPR asks Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, about uncertainty for federal workers amid Trump administration cuts and a looming government shutdown.
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President Trump is going to the Department of Justice to deliver a speech about law and order. It is rare for a president to physically visit the agency meant to independently uphold the rule of law.
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Joe Maslanka moved to Collegeville, Penn., in 1971, bought a local bar, kicked out the biker gang that hung out there and moved in upstairs. His family visited StoryCorps for a remembrance.
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John Feinstein, a long-time sports columnist at "The Washington Post" and a prolific author of popular sports books, has died at 69.
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Many will fill out their March Madness brackets this weekend. NPR speaks with Jonathan Cohen, author of "Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling," about the rise in legalized betting.
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For believers, the holy month is about much more than fasting. It's a time for reflection and compassion — to give to the less fortunate, gather with community to break the daily fasts, and pray.
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Amid the devastation and fear in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a mother reflects on one way she and her family found some joy and connection along some train tracks.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Amanda Seyfried, star of the new series Long Bright River. She plays a police officer investigating the murders of women from Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church about leading a movement to swear off shopping at Target for Lent.
