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All summer long, fellow NPR program Weekends on All Things Considered is asking directors, actors and producers what movie they could watch over and over again. Today, actor Anthony Mackie talks about why "Top Gun" will always hold a special place in his heart.

In the NBA, Kyrie Irving made his season debut on Wednesday and had a huge impact in the Brooklyn Nets’ 129-121 win at Indiana, scoring 22 points, the Pacers held off the Celtics, 99-97, and the 76ers beat the Magic, 116-106.

By Alan Chartockhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-916913.mp3Albany, NY – Robert Reidy and Bob Lowry of the NYS Council…

The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions and they took the hardest path possible to the title. The Panthers won the first three games of the series, then lost the next three before Monday's win.

By Paul Tuthillhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-896114.mp3Boston, MA – There is a divide among Massachusetts…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-869496.mp3Washington, DC – The chief environmental adviser to Governor David Paterson…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-880989.mp3Springfield, MA – After a surprisingly close race for the vacant US Senate…

A top Senate Democrat is pushing to raise taxes on the wealthy while preserving many tax breaks benefiting the middle class in a challenge to a…

For this edition of our Sounds of America series, we talk about Motown and the impact Detroit has had on American music.

Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons, two thirds of the blues rock trio ZZ Top, play a quiz about a famous miser, Hetty Green. Known as the "Witch of Wall Street," Green was incredibly wealthy by the time she died in 1916 -- but she was famous for never parting with a nickel if she could help it.