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Sueann Davis is a Republican, who formerly served as Deer Park school board member.
What do World Cup champions crave after a win? Pizza from an Orange, N.J., bagel shop. BXJ made 46 pies for the Spanish team after their victory.
Arts & Culture
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Director Jean Hardie and student actors from Spokane Civic Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream visited the SPR studio to preview the production, including a reading from Shakespeare's legendary script.
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Theater on the Verge visits the studio to preview their first concert, The Art of the Possible: Songs for a Marginally Less Terrible World, featuring performances from singers Abbey Crawford and Robby French.
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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.
Events
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Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026
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Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale
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Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival
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Fifteen years ago, the FDA overhauled its safety rules for fruits and vegetables, hoping to prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness. How's that system working today?
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The DOJ is offering state and local police $3 billion to cooperate with ICE on federal immigration enforcement, part of a broader effort to expand the administration's mass deportation campaign.
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Caitlin Clark is playing some of her best basketball, but debates over her fiery style, flopping and on-court confrontations haven't gone away. The Athletic's Chris Branch breaks down her season.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Carl Skau, acting executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, about a new report on food security in Gaza.
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American sunscreens are way behind the rest of the world in terms of how well they prevent skin cancer. The Indicator's Darian Woods and Wailin Wong explain why.
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President Trump slapped replacement tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union to replace expiring ones.
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Reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Jay Young speak with NPR's Ailsa Chang about Young's relationship with Benjamin Spencer, the man who was wrongfully imprisoned for his father's murder.
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White House officials say they are ushering in a new "golden age" of science, with changes to grantmaking and priorities like AI and quantum computing. Democrats say it masks damage to U.S. science.
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Member nations voted to remove chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Friday and the Trump administration is vowing to do whatever it can to dismantle the court.
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The Illharmonic Orchestra blends hip-hop and classical music during live performances. Its leaders tell NPR's Juana Summers how they build community with their shows, which feature all-Black musicians.