Here and Now
Monday- Friday 12 PM- 2 PM
Your mid-day bridge between Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The daily news magazine is a fast-paced program featuring a broad-range of topics from public policy, foreign affairs and technology to food, culture and the arts. Reports from the WKSU newsroom are also a part of the weekday broadcasts.
Here and Now Stories
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Quiet vacations are one of this summer’s most popular travel choices. -
Birds have an innate ability to know where to go and when, but lights and windows make the journey dangerous. -
He has undergone hours of surgery and a suspect has been arrested.
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The map that draws a second majority congressional district in Louisiana can be used in 2024, even though lower courts have found that it likely discriminates against Black voters.
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Many people ask why this ruling was necessary when discrimination against those with a disability was already protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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The area's famous oil industry is in decline due to falling revenues and the state's aggressive climate action. -
Courtney Gore campaigned in Texas as a GOP hard-liner. She won, but while she served her term, she became alarmed by her party’s extremism.
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A German engineer came up with an idea for a new kind of heart pump while still a student in the 1990s. His project eventually became a reality and has helped hundreds of thousands of people survive severe heart attacks.
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New government figures show that the inflation rate has slowed, but remains stubbornly high.
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The anniversary signifies the day in 1948 when the British occupation formally ended their mandate in Palestine, thus creating the state of Israel.
