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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty compares and contrasts what a second term for Donald Trump or Joe Biden would mean for U.S. efforts to combat climate change. About: On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.…

New York’s Department of State is stepping up enforcement against housing discrimination on Long Island. It has recently punished real estate agents in Nassau and Suffolk counties for violating fair housing standards. Many of the agents were discovered in the course of a 3-year-long undercover investigation by Newsday, which found widespread unequal treatment of would-be homebuyers.…

Coming up on today’s show: Mikie Sherrill, U.S. Representative (D, NJ-11), talks about U.S. foreign policy and more. Robin Hood and Columbia University’s Poverty Tracker Annual Report shows more than half of New York City — 56% — lives in poverty or is low-income and likely faces challenges to make ends meet. Richard Buery, CEO of…

If you’re training to become a physician, your first patient is usually dead. In fact, “first patient” is what med students call the human cadavers that they work on in anatomy class — when they first learn to make careful incisions, and lay eyes on the beautiful intricacies of bone, muscle, blood vessels, and organs…

Thursday on the NewsHour, continued Israeli airstrikes flatten parts of Rafah as negotiators make progress for a cease-fire in Gaza. The fight over spending on Capitol Hill intensifies, pushing the country ever closer to a government shutdown. Plus, the state of the war in Ukraine nearly two years into Russia’s invasion. Read the full article…

Sustainable aviation fuel — an alternative to conventional petroleum — aims to decarbonize a carbon-heavy sector. Right now, it accounts for less than 1% of global jet fuel. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act incentivizes aviation’s transition to SAF, but manufacturers still face big roadblocks. Plus, not all SAFs are created equal. This episode is part of…

Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunner of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade Kholodny Yar holds a cat from his position in the direction of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 20, 2024. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images It’s been nearly two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, With Putin’s…

A privately-built US spacecraft prepares for touchdown on the lunar surface. Show more A privately-built uncrewed American spacecraft is orbiting the Moon in preparation for touchdown on the lunar surface. If successful, it will be the first time an American mission has returned to the Moon for more than fifty years. The six-legged Odysseus lander…

Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated author who writes an preposterously stereotypical “Black” book as a joke, only to have it become a bestseller in the comedy American Fiction. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Oscars are coming up on March 10, so we are listening back to our original reviews of some of the movies nominated…

Two Howard University students have formed the first figure skating team at an HBCU. The team makes its competition debut this weekend. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Well, Howard University’s ice skating team is set to make history this weekend. The first figure skating team at a historically Black university is about to take part in its…