Here & Now
Mon-Thu from 12-2 p.m.
NPR, WBUR, Boston and public radio stations across the country are joining forces to bring listeners news and analysis in midday with Here & Now. Here & Now offers a distinctive mix of hard news and rich conversation featuring interesting players from across the spectrum of arts and culture, business, technology, science and politics. Here & Now, produced by WBUR since 1997, with co-hosts Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson.
News and analysis in midday.
Latest Stories
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LaDarrion Williams' new young adult novel follows a Black teen learning to harness his ancestral magic. Before it was a novel, it was a failed TV pilot. Before that, it was a tweet.
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An online public charter school that educates 20,000 children from kindergarten to 12th grade is set to graduate its latest class of seniors.
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Hostage families and Israeli citizens are growing increasingly frustrated with what they see as inaction to bring home the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7.
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Critics have called for Israel to be ousted, and some acts have had to change lyrics or costumes to stay within Eurovision's 'apolitical' rules.
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President Biden has proposed new barriers to Chinese electric vehicles, steel and other goods.
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Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler collaborated on a two-year investigation of the ways Chicago police have routinely violated state law and police procedure, delaying and mishandling missing person cases of Black women and girls.
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Next week, the prosecution’s star witness will take the stand. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to describe a scheme to falsify business records to buy Stormy Daniels' silence right before the 2016 election.
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States like Vermont have seen low turnout and pressure on local election clerks not to make mistakes, because noncitizen voting is such a heated national topic.
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In 1998, a Japanese reality show challenged a young man to live naked and alone, surviving off of prizes he could win from magazine sweepstakes for 15 months. "The Contestant" profiles the man at its center.
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"The Stacks" host Traci Thomas shares take on the Pulitzer winners and shares some insights from her own time as a book judge.