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Plus, a roundup of Inland Northwest wildfires, a new Washington law makes it easier for tenants to install air conditioning units, and a Boston company with a research study is looking for PFAS-exposed people in the Spokane area.
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Evacuees from fire zones often scramble to find shelter for pets, and some are just found wandering. A shelter in Colorado is busy trying to help.
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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Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
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We are no longer accepting donations for the 2026 Record Sale
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A former member of the star-making hip-hop collective Odd Future, Syd returns with a new solo album, "Beard," a title inspired by the peach fuzz on her upper lip.
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The new Air Force One is going out of commission to receive safety upgrades. What needs to be done and was it safe for President Trump to fly the plane to Turkey earlier this month?
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A Detroit family of undocumented immigrants self-deported to Venezuela after a parent was detained in the U.S. Two weeks after they landed, two massive earthquakes devastated the area.
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Colorado's biggest wildfire this year has destroyed more than 300 homes. People who lost them are just now being allowed back to their properties.
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The FDA retracted its only positive test for cyclospora, the parasite at the center of a multistate outbreak, on Taylor Farms lettuce. But the agency believes lettuce from the brand is still linked.
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Under the Trump administration, dozens of advisory committees have been ended or frozen, including one on controlling infection in healthcare settings.
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Iran-backed Houthis impose Saudi maritime embargo, threatening Red Sea shipping and raising fears of renewed regional conflict.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks with Frank Kendall, former U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, about the Houthi blockade in the Red Sea and Pentagon transparency around U.S. military injuries.
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Civil rights leaders called for justice Monday at the funeral of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old who was found dead on Horn Island, Miss. He was with friends for Independence Day and did not return home.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Salah Sarsour, who was detained by ICE and later released after a federal judge found he had a "substantial" First Amendment retaliation claim.
