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Election Day has come and gone, but NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin are still trying to make sense of it all. Was it close? Well, a 50-to-48 percent popular-vote edge for President Obama certainly indicates that. But the Electoral College split was another story.

The United States disagrees with that version. It says the drone was shot at while flying over international waters. The incident marks the first time Iran has shot at a U.S. aircraft.

Host Michel Martin and the Barbershop guys talk about the minority voters who sealed the deal for President Obama's second term. They also weigh in on major ballot measures supporting same-sex marriage and marijuana use.

Writer Barbara Kingsolver is one of a handful of novelists with a science background, and she puts it to use in her new novel Flight Behavior. Kingsolver discusses the book and why she chose to look at the the issue of climate change in a fictional work set in rural Tennessee.

Two of the year's most highly anticipated movies arrive this week. Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and Skyfall, the third film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond 007, directed by American Beauty Oscar-winner Sam Mendes. Film critic David Edelstein has this review of both.

Hurricane Sandy battered cities along the East Coast last week, and scientists at New York University were left reeling after thousands of lab mice at a research facility drowned due to flooding from the storm. How will the loss of these animals impact scientific research?

Jeffrey Toobin joins us to discuss The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court .He and Joe Donahue have a longer discussion of the book in a…

The Lakers finished 41-25, last season, but were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. The team started off the season with a disappointing 1-4 record.

Veterans Day weekend started in Springfield Massachusetts Friday with observances on two college campuses. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill…

Brad Hays, Professor of Political Science at Union College, spoke with WAMC’s Ian Pickus about the president’s successful strategy in his re-election…