Here & Now
MONDAY-FRIDAY 12-3 p.m.
Here & Now is NPR’s midday developing news program, focused on what’s changed since Morning Edition and what it means for listeners. The program is hosted by Robin Young, Deepa Fernandes, and Scott Tong.
Produced in a unique collaboration between NPR and WBUR Boston, the program showcases an unmatched range of voices and regional perspectives. In addition, Here & Now editorial partners include STAT (science & medical), Grist (environmental reporting) and regular appearances by the international reporters of the Washington Post.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.
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Was Amazon's success from innovating retail or cornering the market on e-commerce when the internet was still a fringe part of society? Was it by creeping into every part of our daily lives, from shopping to entertainment to health care?
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The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
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A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger.
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The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.
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Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University.
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Hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides of the Israel–Lebanon border have been displaced.
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Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" is both a family memoir and a cookbook.
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It's the first time the union has successfully organized workers at an automaker outside Detroit's big three.
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Several down ballot races could predict how November’s general election might play out in the Keystone State.