The Brian Lehrer Show

Jumaane Williams, New York City Public Advocate, provides an update on the fatal building collapse near Bedford and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn.
Photo: TOPSHOT - First responders tend to a collapsed building in Brooklyn in New York on November 11, 2026. [Eight people were] killed and several others were injured Wednesday after a three-story building collapsed near a construction site in New York, city authorities said. (kena betancur / AFP via Getty Images)

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Carl Heastie, New York Assembly Speaker, talks about the election results and what to expect in Albany in the next term.

Photo: New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie speaks during a press conference and signing of legislation creating a commission for the study of reparations in New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Ukraine, Russia and the US have returned to the negotiating table after 9 months away from it. As Ukraine braces for another winter under Russian attacks on their energy grid, Oleksiy Sorokin, deputy chief editor of The Kyiv Independent, joins to discuss the state of diplomacy and whether or not an end to fighting is on the table.

Photo: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff during a joint news conference outside the Mariinskyi Palace following negotiations in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Danylo Antoniuk/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Mayor Mamdani recently traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual post-election SOMOS conference for New York politicos. Alana Casanova-Burgess, co-creator, host and producer of the podcast La Brega, from Futuro Studios, talks about the issues the mayor focused on, including a controversial luxury resort, and ICE raids on the island -- both of which the latest season of the La Brega podcast also covers.

Photo: New York City Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani helps handing out lunch after he joined members of the Centro Islamico del Caribe -Masjid Ebadur Rahman mosque in prayer in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Getty Images)

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Sarah Zhang, staff writer for The Atlantic, shares her reporting on the many surveillance apps and gadgets marketed to parents, and how they are fundamentally changing the relationship between parents and their kids.

Photo: A 14-year-old teenage boy looks at an iPhone smartphone screen. (Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images)

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