Here & Now
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Episodes
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Biden steps down, Harris rises to the top of Dem ticket: Week in politics
History is unfolding before our eyes this week, and scholars will be studying the events of these last few days for years to come.
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‘Flap Your Hands' breaks stimming stigma
People with autism often face a stigma for stimming, repetitive behaviors to regulate emotions that can sometimes look like someone flapping their hands or wiggling their fingers.
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How Kamala Harris' district attorney and attorney general experience shaped her politics
Kamala Harris rose to prominence as a public prosecutor.
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SAG-AFTRA video game workers on strike
Contract negotiations with major game studios fell apart over artificial intelligence protections.
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Utah to host 2034 Winter Olympics
There are critics and memories of a 2002 bribery scandal.
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The state of press freedom: Russia sentences journalist to 6.5 years in prison
In Hong Kong, another Wall Street Journal reporter says she was fired after she ran for chair of a local group fighting for press freedom.
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Inside the 'Passionate Mind' of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune
The educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955.
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Inside the 'Succession'-esque battle for the future of the Murdoch media empire
Rupert Murdoch is attempting to change his family’s supposedly irrevocable trust and hand over full control of his vast media empire to his eldest son Lachlan to preserve the company’s conservative editorial direction.
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Gullah Geechee descendants call on Biden to return ancestral land
The Gullah Geechee people used to inhabit the Harris Neck peninsula off Georgia's coast. But during World War II, the federal government seized that land for a military base.
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Southwest Airlines to end open seating
The airline said sometime next year, customers will be able to select their seats and upgrade to seats with extra legroom.
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Chicago already has a torture justice center. Its starting a reparations commission too
Chicago's torture justice center works with Black people who have been tortured by police to force false confessions.
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Olympics kick off Friday after spy drone drama
Canada was caught trying to spy on the New Zealand women's soccer team, and Team USA picked tennis star Coco Gauff as a flagbearer in the opening ceremonies.