Here and Now
Weekdays at 1pm on RADIO IQ
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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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.