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Duke University is known for its basketball. But this year, Duke's fans are cheering for their football team, which has won the most games in its history. Lead by the national coach of the year, the Blue Devils are headed the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

Las Vegas is set to claim the title of city with the largest Ferris wheel, but not for long. New York City plans for a taller wheel, and rumors swirl that Dubai may top even that. Host Scott Simon talks to John Russick, director of Curatorial Affairs at the Chicago History Museum, about the first ever Ferris wheel, which debuted at the 1893 World Fair in Chicago.

Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-514533.mp3Albany, NY – Vermont's Bernie Sanders joins Alan Chartock in the…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-517183.mp3Albany, NY – New Hampshire's Charles Bass joins Alan Chartock in the…

NFL:Tom Brady rebounded from the second worst loss of his career by throwing for two touchdowns as the New England Patriots routed the NFL's last unbeaten…

J.D. Martinez, Andrew Benitendi and Sam Travis homered while the Red Sox exploded for seven runs in the third inning of a 9-4 rout of the Rays. The game…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently fired the city's police superintendent. Now, residents will get to have a say about who should lead the country's second-largest police department.

The Boston Celtics are 5-0 under the NBA Playoff bubble. The Celtics have opened their Eastern Conference semifinal series with a surprisingly easy…

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist.