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Jennifer Gray Thompson lost her home to wildfire, then created an organization to help others who go through the same experience. Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer talks about helping people who file wildfire-related claims. Anna King meets people displaced by wildfire at the Spokane County Fairgrounds.
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To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.
Arts & Culture
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Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
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The Odyssey is less a depiction of the Homeric poem than it is a reflection of Christopher Nolan’s trademark themes, Dan Webster says.
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This week, Movies 101 will be discussing three movies made by foreign directors. They are the haunting British time-travel tale “Rose of Nevada,” the Icelandic domestic study “The Love That Remains” and the Croatian historical documentary “Fiume o Morte!
Events
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Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026 -
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival
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Ukrainian officials say their country is low on missile interceptors. NPR speaks to Oleksandr Merezhko, a member of Ukraine's parliament, about the country's defensive capabilities.
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Extreme heat waves sweeping across East Asia have forced zoos in South Korea and Japan to implement emergency cooling measures.
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To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks the chair of a U.N. commission, Srinivasan Muralidhar, about a report alleging that Israel targets Palestinian children, which Israel denies.
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Iran says it is close to a deal with Oman over navigation on the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest effort to end the U.S.-Iran conflict.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Michael Singh, a former Middle East adviser during the George W. Bush administration, about negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing yesterday on how to prevent deep cuts to Social Security benefits in a few years. The math is simple but the politics are not.
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Puerto Rico's government will begin rationing water on Friday as the island copes with its worst drought in more than a decade.
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President Trump gave a speech in Las Vegas Wednesday, where he praised the U.S. economy but workers in the city say his administration's policies aren't helping.
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Despite a deadly public health crisis, most U.S. doctors, nurses and other health workers turn away many patients with alcohol and drug addiction without offering them science-based medications.
