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Regional News
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Elections have consistently broken spending records in the state in recent years, largely due to corporate money. A ballot measure known as the Montana Plan aims to eliminate that kind of spending in Montana, sidestepping a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That would make the state a national legal test case.
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It’s Bachtoberfest in Billings! YPR’s Karl Lengel has the story.
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Montana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni has announced the recipients of its 2026 Outstanding Alumni Awards.
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A recent KFF Health-AP Poll suggests middling - and growing - dissatisfaction among rural voters on most economic policies, but support still remains higher than national averages.
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The plaintiffs are asking a judge to stop federal authorities from continuing to take people suspected of being in the country illegally into custody without first getting a warrant.
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Fourteen black bears were killed last week following an investigation at a Bozeman-area home. Game wardens say the bears had stopped relying on natural foods and were completely unafraid of humans.
National News
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John Steinbeck's 1952 epic was first adapted to film in 1955 by director Elia Kazan. Now, Kazan's granddaughter Zoe has directed a new Netflix miniseries, starring Florence Pugh.
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ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
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Like his previous work, including Homeland Elegies, The Radiance exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity.
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The front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the kill zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology.
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The FBI and U.S. prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family.
NPR Headlines
- Candidates for Minnesota governor share 'sisterhood' as cancer survivors
- Texas Senate race shatters state's campaign spending record
- With parallel parking turning competitive, one producer gets a lesson
- New York's laws on consent and alcohol use could complicate Cornell case prosecution
- 'The Third Eye' presents an unfiltered view of the Beatles' early years
- NPR spoke to Cuban men now stuck in limbo in Central African Republic
- With a voice as vast as the ocean, Beth Taylor has arrived
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