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One of the first places shoppers may feel the effects of the dockworkers' strike is in the produce aisle. Hundreds of tons of bananas are stuck in transit — and they won't keep for long.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-502717.mp3Albany, NY – Shannon Moffett is a Stanford Medical Student who has written a…

The gun violence prevention nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise has dropped NBC's Megyn Kelly as host of its annual gala.

Your inbox overflows with spam, so what else is new? But have you ever wondered how junk email got its name? And where all of it comes from? Finn Burton, author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet describes the spam business, how it's become a criminal enterprise and how you can protect yourself online.

The newspaper plans to report Saturday about what the former Penn State football coach has to say concerning the scandal involving one of his former assistants. It cost Paterno his job.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-556418.mp3Albany, NY – Sixty years later, the Holocaust still horrifies us in large…

On this week’s 51%, WAMC’s Sarah LaDuke catches up with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco to talk about her new record and her recent shift to Broadway. DiFranco is starring as “Persephone” in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical "Hadestown" through the end of June.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-556533.mp3Albany, NY – Perhaps a New Year's Resolution this coming year is for you to…

In 1996, Wallace's novel Infinite Jest was a critical and popular success. The new movie The End of The Tour recreates the author's tour for that book. Originally broadcast March 5, 1997.

A new tribute album offers musical interpretations of Ginsberg's poems. The poet and countercultural activist spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about his poem "Howl," which was inspired by his mother.