Here & Now
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Here & Now brings you the news that breaks after Morning Edition, and before All Things Considered. Produced at WBUR in Boston, and hosted by Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson, Here & Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, as well as features on arts and culture.
- The public humiliation of shackled and chained Indians deported from the U.S. is a political headache for India's prime minister.
- Currently, the U.S. is experiencing rollbacks of civil rights and racial justice ideals that the turmoil and violence of 1963 ushered in.
- The Senate unexpectedly ed a bill that creates a tax deduction of up to $25,000 per year for some cash tips.
- On Tuesday night, the top seeded Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves.
- The "liking gap" is the idea that we don't think people like us as much as they do.
- Researchers say that severe cases of babesiosis should be preventable with increased testing and awareness.
- Several states that have recently experienced natural disasters have asked FEMA for federal disaster aid but have been either partially or fully denied with little explanation.
- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem bungled a response this week about an important Constitutional principle called habeas corpus, which gives people the right to challenge a detention.
- The book “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson from Axios is out this week.
- New research shows that the way flamingos eat is actually smart.