It's the Brian Lairn on WNYC.

I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lairn show, filling in for Brian today, who is off taking care of a family member.

Coming up on today's show, we're going

to talk about some of the news on Rikers Island. Yesterday, a federal judge overseeing the troubled

jail complex appointed a former CIA officer who ran Vermont's prison system as the so-called

remediation manager for Rikers.

We'll get into that in just over half an hour.

Plus, the dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine will join us later to talk about how AI is being integrated into medicine and the promise of it, but of course also the potential pitfalls.

They've incorporated artificial intelligence into the training at his medical school to try to prepare future doctors for this

new world. And we'll wrap today's show with a call-in for you to share what you're nostalgic for

from 2016, 10 years ago. Did you see that trend going around social media over the past few weeks?

We're curious if you, our listeners, can help us put a finger on what's behind the impulse.

So whether you posted something or not, start thinking about where you were in 2016 and what

you might be nostalgic for from that year. It can be personal or political, or maybe both.

We'll take your calls on that near the end of the show.

And we begin today with the latest news from Congress.

Senate Democrats are threatening not to vote for a spending package

that would fund the government passed Friday at midnight

unless Republicans agree to limit funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

This latest move after two American citizens were killed by U.S. federal agents in Minneapolis this

month.

Last year, Republicans pushed President Donald Trump's signature domestic policy bill through Congress,

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