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Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz are drawing large rally crowds in the Midwest. Ukraine has received more weapons but is struggling to halt a Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, and one year after the devastating Maui wildfires, officials want to make evacuations safer. Want more comprehensive analysis of the…

If a tree falls in the forest and there isn’t a man there to tell us why it just fell over… did a tree really fall? Click and Clack mansplain it all on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up…

Israeli authorities blame the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, who strongly deny involvement. Show more Israel’s air force says it has hit Hezbollah targets in Lebanon which comes after the deadly rocket strike on a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that left twelve children and young adults dead and dozens injured, according to Israeli…

Coming up on today’s show: McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), recaps the happenings at the Republican National Convention, including JD Vance’s speech, plus reflects on political violence here in the United States. Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of…

Monday on the News Hour, President Biden pushes back on congressional Democrats calling for him to step aside, telling them it’s time for the speculation to end. France faces potential political paralysis as no party wins a majority in a second round of elections. Plus, nearly a year after Hawaii’s deadly and devastating wildfires, many…

Paramount just announced a merger with Skydance, a film production company. The hope is that adding Skydance’s offerings to its streaming platforms will boost subscriptions. But streaming is a finicky business, where you have to be a top-tier service to thrive. Also in this episode: Dynamic pricing technology could be profitable for retailers, some Chinese…

France is voting in one of its most significant elections in years, with the far right hoping for a historic victory, but with political stalemate the more likely result. Show more Large numbers of French people are voting in the second round of parliamentary elections. Turnout at midday was the highest in over forty years.…

Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta tells us how her experience of migration led to her love of Afro-Colombian music, how a beauty pageant and its underlying anti-blackness inspired her new album, and how she came to collaborate with the legendary Afro-Colombian ensemble, Sexteto Tabalá, in her track “Pelo Cucú.” This episode originally aired in 2020. Read…

Thursday on the News Hour, President Biden acknowledges mistakes in last week’s debate but insists he will stay in the race. Exit polls in the United Kingdom show voters likely elected a center-left Labour government after 14 years of center-right Conservative rule. Plus, a look back at a Supreme Court term full of consequential and…

Author Boyce Upholt’s new book “The Great River” tells the story of the river, the Indigenous people who lived alongside the Mississippi and the white settlers who came along to claim it. Then, Here & Now‘s Scott Tong takes a trip to a Delaware Beach to see horseshoe crabs mating. The undignified process takes on…