Here and Now
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Catch up with the day's top stories during this energetic hour of news and conversation. Here and Now is an essential midday news magazine for those who want the latest news and expanded conversation on today's hot-button topics: public affairs, foreign policy, science and technology, the arts and more.
The show is produced by WBUR/Boston.
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The Minnesota legislature opened its session this week with a special ceremony for Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were victims of a political assassination eight months ago.
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It’s “El Mal” from the 2024 film “Emilia Perez" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2025.
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The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.
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The U.S. Supreme Court called President Trump's tariff policies unconstitutional under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.
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Federal judges have been sounding the alarm about the way pregnant and nursing women are being treated in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
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Its day 14 of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
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On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s ability to levy tariffs on other countries based on a law meant for national emergencies.
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The Winter Olympic Games underway in Italy are scattered across a vast region, from mountain villages in the Alps to Milan.
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College sports are in the middle of a financial arms race as schools race to pay their athletes increasingly lucrative name, image and likeness deals.