Here & Now

The news of today and the stories that stick with you. Co-hosted by Indira Lakshmanan, Scott Tong and Robin Young.

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07/06/2026

The megalodon swam between 3.6 and 23 million years ago. 🦈

Today, you can see a life-size model hanging from the ceiling at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Some were four times the size of today's great whites.

06/06/2026

Are you struggling to find a job after college graduation?

A career coach gave us some tips:

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet.

06/06/2026

These sandwiches are more than bread with random leftovers in the fridge:
🥪 Fish sandwich with caper-pickle-lemon mayo
🥪 Hippie vegetable sandwich
🥪 Italian meat and mozzarella sandwich

What if dinner sandwiches were exciting? Something more than bread with assorted refrigerator leftovers.

04/06/2026

The megalodon was one of the biggest fish that ever lived, with seven-inch-long teeth and jaws with 40,000 pounds of bite force. 🦈

Some were four times the size of today's great whites.

04/06/2026

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet. 🎓

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet.

03/06/2026

What should we have for dinner?

It's an age-old question, and a sandwich can be a simple-yet-tasty answer. 🥪

What if dinner sandwiches were exciting? Something more than bread with assorted refrigerator leftovers.

31/05/2026

" America is in a battle for its principles and its identity," said Nevada State Sen. Dina Neal.

Ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, we asked people from across the country that question.

31/05/2026

From an early age, Bahar Movahed started to play traditional Iranian music instruments, including the tanbur, tar and setar. She also learned to draw and paint.

Bahar Movahed is a practicing orthodontist in Southern California. She's also a classically trained musician with a solo career, something she wasn't allowed to have in Iran, where women are prohibited from singing alone in public.

30/05/2026

When talking to skeptical parents about vaccinating their children, pediatrician Dr. Vincent Iannelli uses a technique called "motivational interviewing."

Heather Simpson was convinced that if she vaccinated her child, the little girl would die. She also remembers pro-vaccine parents attacking her on social media, calling her a 'baby killer' and repeating over and over that vaccines were safe and effective without addressing any of her fears.

30/05/2026

Fully paved in the 1930s, Route 66 became a Depression-era migration route for poor farming families fleeing the Dust Bowl for a new start in California.

Route 66 is not the oldest, longest or most well-travelled long-distance highway in the U.S. So why is it the most famous?

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