Here and Now
Monday through Friday, Noon - 2pm
WNIJ's midday news magazine keeps you up-to-date with the news between Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Here & Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food, and more.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has drafted a $10 billion proposal to fund the National Institute of Health's research toward designing new therapies to treat long COVID.
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Minouche Shafik was scrutinized for three hours by Congress about how Columbia has been fighting antisemitism on campus.
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They decided to share a piece of land that Hindus hold as sacred — and where Muslims had long worshipped in a Mediaeval mosque.
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In the book, author Lissa Soep remembers two close friends who died and reflects on how their voices continue to speak through their loved ones.
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It centers on the 1976 presidential race, the tightest primary ever and the sharp rise of the conservative wing of the Republican party.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he's focused on bringing down inflation.
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With strict catch limits, more than half of the fish caught by recreational fishermen in Florida are returned to the water. Efforts are underway to ensure that the released fish survive to be caught on another day.
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Roughly 100,000 Americans, most of whom are Black, are living with sickle cell disease. The recent Food and Drug Administration approval of two new gene therapies brings the promise of a cure.
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Vice grew into a $5.7 billion behemoth. It’s now a bare shadow of itself.
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New York district attorney Alvin Bragg says the case is really about trying to influence the 2016 election outcome.