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From time to time mail intended for Car Talk and Ann Landers of ‘Dear Abby’ fame gets switched up. Of course, the brothers’ handle such heartfelt missives with the requisite tact and sensitivity that their sainted mother, Elizabeth, instilled in them -after they have a few laughs first! Advice to the lovelorn from Click and…

Las Cafeteras is a band out of East LA that met while doing community organizing. They began playing at the Eastside Cafe, where they discovered Son Jarocho, traditional Afro-Mexican music from Veracruz. They quickly began to adapt the music to their realities fusing it with hip hop, rock, ska, and spoken word. They are known…

Monday on the NewsHour, a look at the aftermath of the Israeli raid that rescued two hostages but killed dozens of Palestinians in the process. Donald Trump’s positions grow more extreme with him advocating for mass deportation and encouraging Russia to attack NATO allies if they don’t pay up. Plus, both parties work to turn…

Diamondback Energy said today it will buy Endeavor Energy Resources, continuing the consolidation trend in the oil industry. In this episode, why oil and natural gas companies keep merging, especially in the Permian Basin region of Texas. Plus, robotaxi vandalization may represent resentment of Big Tech, lavish quinceañeras spawn a booming industry and some streaming…

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer talks to reporters as he walks to his office at the U.S. Capitol. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Last week, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border bill that would send billions in wartime aid to Ukraine, Israel, and other nations. The bill links the GOP requests for stricter immigration policy changes to…

New Jersey Transit’s looming fiscal cliff has been hanging over Gov. Phil Murphy’s head. The agency plans to raise fares for the first time in Murphy’s administration this July — a whopping 15%, with smaller hikes planned for the years ahead.  But that’s a patch, not a fix. Deficits before the rate hike were projected at about…

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events. Show more Long: The United Nations has urged Israel against further military action in the city of Rafah, after dozens of Palestinians were killed during an Israeli hostage rescue operation. Also in the programme: Germany’s Chancellor Sholz has called on EU countries to ramp up their…

We’re launching the 2024 edition of the Public Song Project! Today we share the details for this year’s project, and debut a contribution from Arturo O’Farrill, pianist and bandleader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. After the song, we’re joined by musicology professor Anna Celenza to dive more into the history of jazz in the 1920s.…

Today marks 100 years to the day since George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” premiered at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. We discuss about the composition’s legacy with Colin and Eric Jacobsen, artistic directors of the orchestral collective The Knights, who have organized the multiyear project Rhapsody, as well as pianist Lara Downes, who recently released “Rhapsody in…

The chameleonic banjo player Béla Fleck has a new album commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue,” which features new bluegrass and blues-influenced versions of the composition. Fleck joins us to perform and discuss the album.   Today marks 100 years to the day since George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” premiered at…