The Brian Lehrer Show

Gwynne Hogan, senior reporter covering immigration and homelessness for The City Reporter, shares the latest reporting on the shooting of a man by ICE officers, that took place Thursday afternoon in a busy neighborhood, in front of the man's young son. And, Carmen De La Rosa, NYC Council Member (District 10, Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill) discusses its impact on her district.
Photo: People participate in a rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities on October 9, 2026 in New York City.(Stephanie Keith via Getty Images)

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Billy House, Washington/Congress reporter for Newsday, talks about the issue of immigration and ICE funding in New York's 4th Congressional district, where the incumbent Democrat Laura Gillen is trying to fend off a challenge from Republican Jeanine Driscoll.

Photo: Advocates and community members rally marking the implementation of New York's ban on 287(g) agreements on August 25, 2026 in Mineola, New York in front of the Nassau County Police Department. (Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

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Jeff Jarvis, visiting professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism, fellow at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, emeritus professor at CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism, co-hosts the podcasts "Intelligent Machines" and "AI Inside" and the author of Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) tells the story of the Linotype machine that made mass media possible and how technology changes societies.

Photo: Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935, (AE Foster, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

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Now on view at the Museum of the City of New York is "Halumii Ktapihna," a celebration and acknowledgement of the cultural impact of the Lenape/Lunáapeew, the original people of the land now known as New York City. Monxo Lopez, PhD, curator of community histories at the Museum of the City of New York and Brent Stonefish, curatorial advisor and founding member of the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective join to discuss the exhibition as New York City soon marks 400 years since the founding of New Amsterdam.
Photo: Brad Farwell via Museum of the City of New York

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