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Texas Christian University’s women’s basketball team has had so many injuries it had to forfeit games and hold an open try-out for walk-ons. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Texas Christian University’s women’s basketball team was so good early this season, it cracked the top 25 in the AP’s national rankings. But after multiple players were sidelined…

JASPER JACOBS/BELGA MAG/AFP/Getty Images The Department of Defense’s proposed budget for 2024 is $842 billion. That is about 3.5% of the U.S.’s GDP. The military buys everything from pens and paper clips to fighter jets and submarines. But the market for military equipment is very different from the commercial market. On today’s episode, we’re bringing…

The U.S. Department of Education announced it’s erasing $1.2 billion in federal student loans. At the same time, the department is struggled to implement a new application for federal student aid. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Biden administration announced today yet another big move to erase more than a billion in federal student loan debt. Here’s…

Soap gets laundry done. Conversation gets democracy going. This election year, WNYC is turning some laundromats in the New York metro area into hubs of civic dialogue. Let’s talk democracy at the laundromat!  We’ll be regularly talking to neighborhood residents at: Stuy Wash N Dry in East New York, Brooklyn 14th Street Laundry in Astoria,…

In December of 2022, OpenAI, the company behind several well-known artificial intelligence products, launched a free public version of ChatGPT, which first launched in earnest the conversation about how this new technology could impact our lives, particularly in the workplace. Now, a little over a year later, we check in on how much AI has…

“Black Dog” Arlo Parks is a singer and songwriter from London. In January 2021, she released her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams. It hit number three on the UK charts, and she won this year’s BRIT award for Breakthrough Artist. Last year, NME called her song “Black Dog” the year’s “most devastating song.” In this…

Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Katie Honan, senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, recaps what he talked about at this week’s event—including a number of questions about public safety. Read the full article here

A high school teacher in Houston has a library in her classroom of books she’s not supposed to have, per state legislation. Students say she’s helping them survive. (Story aired on ATC on 1/29/24.) Books A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors Read the full article…

On today’s show:  Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, focusing on Islam and modernity, argues that perceived indifference to Palestinian suffering in Gaza is alienating moderates across the Islamic world and has the potential to tarnish the appeal of liberal democratic values in the United States and the West. Mayor Adams holds one…

Tuesday on the NewsHour, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange makes a last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to the U.S. on spying charges. Then, Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington discusses the island’s relations with the U.S. as both confront China. Plus, we look at the presidential race as President Biden breaks a fundraising record and Nikki Haley…