Here and Now on WBAA News
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Here & Now is Public Radio’s daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after “Morning Edition” and before “All Things Considered.”
Emmy and Peabody award winning Robin Young brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her role as host of Here & Now. Co-host Jeremy Hobson worked at Marketplace for six years and was also a producer for NPR's All Things Considered and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! in addition to experience as a reporter for several NPR member stations.
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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.