Catch up with the day's top stories during this energetic hour of news and conversation.  Here & Now is an essential midday news magazine for those who want the latest news and expanded conversation on today's hot-button topics: public affairs, foreign policy, science and technology, the arts and more.

Here & Now's guest roster has included Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, director John Malkovich, the Wall Street Journal's John Harwood and actress Jane Fonda.

"We are ferocious about covering the news listeners care about.  But we also have the capacity and the ear to linger over riveting human moments, both hilarious and heartbreaking.  And we are conversation driven, which gives listeners an opportunity to hear real exchanges, instead of sound bites." — Here & Now host Robin Young

Airs:  12 p.m. Monday-Thursday on KSTX 89.1 FM
Website:  www.hereandnow.org

About the Host:

Robin Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role as host of Here & Now.  She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and has been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS and ABC, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for the Today show on NBC.

Young may be best known to the Boston audience for her part in launching the popular Evening Magazine on WBZ-TV in the mid-'70s, and for her television profiles on WNEV-TV in the mid-'80s.  For the past decade, she's also been producing and directing documentaries.

Little-known facts about Robin:

She was a singing waitress on Cape Cod, covered the L.A. riots by occasionally hiding under a blanket in a car trunk and loves hot yoga, music and animals.