Here and Now
Monday through Thursday, Noon - 2pm, Friday Noon - 1pm
WNIJ's midday news magazine keeps you up-to-date with the news between Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.
Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Robin Young and Scott Tong, the show’s daily lineup includes interviews with NPR reporters, as well as leading newsmakers, innovators and artists from across the U.S. and around the globe.
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The LA Dodgers open spring training trying to win their third World Series championship in a row. No team has done that since the New York Yankees 26 years ago.
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Google Earth changed the face of digital maps in 2005, giving users the ability to look at satellite and other imagery almost anywhere across the world.
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Mortgage rates have fallen below 6% for the first time in years.
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There will be a total lunar eclipse in the early hours of March 3, visible across the United States.
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A process that typically takes years was fast-tracked and approved within 11 days. The reason? A uranium mine in Utah.
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The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Friday against a new law in Kansas that invalidates the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of nearly 2,000 transgender residents whose gender identity was listed on those documents.
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Punch was abandoned by his mother, and the rest of the macaque’s at the zoo have been mean to him.
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This new line is Lego's biggest technology leap forward in decades.
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With Netflix backing out, Paramount is now set to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $111 billion. That would put two longtime Hollywood studios under one roof, along with streaming services, cable channels and big news operations.
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Former President Bill Clinton faces questioning Friday by the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein.