Here & Now

It’s been an unprecedented four years for college seniors.

Black lawmakers are leading a renewed push for Congress to pass the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination based on hair texture or style.

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.

Roads are jammed as people leave Rafah with an impending Israeli attack coming.

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.

"The Stacks" host Traci Thomas shares take on the Pulitzer winners and shares some insights from her own time as a book judge.

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.

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.

More than 100 people are dead and hundreds of thousands displaced as catastrophic flooding brings the region to a standstill.

President Biden has proposed new barriers to Chinese electric vehicles, steel and other goods.

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.

"Harold Halibut" is a new sci-fi video game set in an underwater space colony.

Research shows that meditation can reduce stress and anxiety, and lead to better focus and concentration.

Steve Albini helped create albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies, and many others.

In past outbreaks, this strain of avian flu has killed one out of every two people who are infected.  

"The Other Side" is his first solo album in over a decade and a half.

The Biden administration has pumped in billions in subsidies, but only a handful of government-funded charging stations have opened.

Students protesting the war are calling for divestment from companies doing business with Israel.

The world passed an important milestone.

A free app uses citizen scientists to help keep tabs on these critical insects. 

Russia has been stepping up attacks on energy infrastructure and making small gains on the front lines, as Ukraine struggles to prevent them from advancing.

President Biden said on Wednesday that the United States will not supply Israel with heavy bombs if Israel launches a full offensive into Rafah.

Lawmakers in the U.S. are reacting after Biden said he would stop some weapons shipments to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

As the world pushes away from fossil fuels, a big discovery of oil came in the Caribbean off the coast of Guyana.

The series of reports called "Friends of the Court" prompted a national conversation and moved the nation's high court to adopt its first ethics code.

Her comedy touches on dating, going to the doctor and hanging out with friends. But what it doesn't delve into is the ongoing war in Gaza.

According to a new report, the retirement program will no longer be able to pay full benefits after 2035.

The red-eyed bugs with Broods XIII and Broods XIX are expected to emerge shortly, blanketing huge swaths of the country from Missouri to Illinois. The last time so many cicadas emerged together, Thomas Jefferson was president.

Hillel International, the Jewish campus organization, says since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, antisemitic incidents against Jewish students on college campuses have increased 700% compared to last year.

A new U.S.-based aluminum smelter could be operating before the end of the decade. And that smelter could be substantially less polluting than older models.

As a child, R. Derek Black actively promoted white nationalism. It was the family legacy. But when Black attended college, they met people who were appalled by that ideology but willing to work with them to help change those views.

With a looming retirement crisis due to an aging population, many are looking for ways to secure their future without relying on social security.

A U.S. official says the Biden administration paused a weapons shipment out of concern for the offensive's impact on Palestinians.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels is expected to resume her testimony on Thursday in the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday she described a sexual encounter with Trump in detail.

WBUR's popular true-crime podcast "Beyond All Repair" has dropped its final episode.

TikTok says the law passed last month calling for the app's Chinese-based owner to sell it or it will be banned in the United States unconstitutional.

The Israeli military entered Rafah on Tuesday.

1 in 6 cases of Alzheimer's may be inherited through the gene APOE4. 

A restored version of the 1970 Beatles documentary "Let it Be" launches on Disney+.

Former President Donald Trump is accused of covering up payments to Stormy Daniels to hide an alleged affair.

One of the measures allows teachers to carry firearms in schools.

Each May, a farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is greeted with a flock of songbirds called bobolinks.

Other countries are taking action toward the same goal.

The wellness industry is booming with products that purport to measure one's biological age. But scientists can't even agree on what it is.

Baker Jatee Kearsley accepts SNAP and EBT at J'Taime Patisserie in Bed-Stuy.

New York Federal Reserve research has found that the share of renters who believe they will eventually be able to purchase a home has fallen to a record low.

"Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit" is being painstakingly restored and is expected to be exhibited by summer.

Moreno's idea has been gaining traction with some mayors and urban planners, but it has also become the target of conspiracy theorists with baseless fears of having their cars taken away by a world government.

President Biden's support among young voters is slipping, partly over his support for Israel.

Palestinian hospitals say two dozen died in Israeli strikes on Rafah overnight. Israel has also cast doubt on a proposed ceasefire deal that Hamas agreed to.