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WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. WBUR is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM. WBUR produces several nationally distributed programs, including Car Talk, On Point, Only A Game, Here and Now and Open Source, and previously produced The Connection (which was canceled on August 5, 2005). Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
| Media Market | Boston-Manchester |
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| Radio Media Market | Boston |
| Radio Format | News/Talk |
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Search ArticlesWBUR Welcomes Community Advisory Board Members
WBUR Welcomes Community Advisory Board Members The WBUR Festival 2026. (Rachel O’Driscoll/Bolt Creative Group For WBUR) We're proud to welcome a new slate of members to WBUR's Community Advisory Board (CAB). For decades, the CAB has brought together perspectives from Greater Boston's business, civic, and philanthropic communities — originally established as required by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
What's at stake in the race for AI dominance
Top AI researchers and leaders worry AI is developing too fast. But critics argue the U.S. can't risk to slow down in its AI race with China. So, what might a slowdown look like and who would enforce it? Guests Rocket Drew, AI reporter at The Information. Selina Xu, China and AI policy researcher. She has written for several major publications including the NYT, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal to Foreign Policy.
Dear future robot overlords
Dear Future Robot Overlords, It turns out your creators have a pretty strong suspicion that you’re going to destroy humanity. Like, soon! Maybe in the next 10 years! All last week, the news was filled with stories about tech mavens wringing their hands and expressing regret, like the guy who now says he’s sorry for inventing the Labradoodle.
'Homesharing' could help solve two problems at once
For 40 years, I worked in and around nursing homes — as an administrator, surveyor and long-term care advocate. One lesson from that time has stayed with me: A nursing home admission often begins not with a medical crisis, but with a housing problem. Beyond the financial and emotional burden, an unmanageable home quietly turns into a medical risk.
People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option
Richard Foreman's home is stranded in the middle of the beach. The stairs were ripped away by waves years ago, so there's no way in or out anymore. The house is 20 feet into the air, on stilts that were designed to protect it from hurricane storm surge. But there haven't been any big storms recently, just the rising ocean eating away at the sand year after year. Just six years ago, the house was still a popular vacation rental in Rodanthe, North Carolina.
EU offers Canada 'associate member' role; Trump calls it 'laughable'
BRUSSELS — The European Union is proposing a new kind of relationship with Canada, one that could make it the EU's first-ever "associate member" — a model that does not currently exist. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the proposal Wednesday during her annual State of the Union address, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting in the European Parliament as her special guest.
Free range parenting vs. the zero-risk state
A Virginia mom let her 5-year-old son take a walk alone in her gated community. The authorities found out and now she’s on Virginia's child abuse and neglect registry. Who decides what's in a child's best interest. Guests Karyann Parkinson, mother of five kids who was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for letting her 5-year-old son walk through their gated community to a nearby pond. Law clerk.
A tumultuous congressional primary season closes with record departures and defeats
Nearly one in five lawmakers who started the 119th Congress will not return to their seats next year, driven by an historic level of retirements, resignations and runs for other office. According to NPR's congressional retirement tracker, at the end of the 2026 primary season there are 99 seats — 83 in the House and 16 in the Senate — guaranteed to have a different member from the start of 2025. (Louisiana's House primaries were delayed to Nov.
The Fed is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in 3 years
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates Wednesday, in a show of its determination to attack stubborn inflation. Investors are betting that the central bank will raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to a range between 3.75% and 4%. That would be the first rate increase in more than three years, making it more costly to borrow money to buy a car, grow a business or carry a balance on a credit card.
Ed Sheeran's tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore
NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran's tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage. Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ouster and attributed the decision to the tour's promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.