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Mahoney, who died Sunday, was born in Britain and didn't start acting until he was 37. He went on to appear in films like Say Anything and Barton Fink. Originally broadcast 1990.

It's not just Louis C.K. and Stephen Colbert who are confused about the Common Core. Get the facts here.

Dunham says when she started writing HBO's Girls, she was drawn to characters with "a bit of a Zelda Fitzgerald lost, broken woman quality." Originally broadcast Sept. 29, 2014.

Mathematician Ian Stewart joins the Science Friday Book Club meeting to discuss Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland. The book, published in 1884 under the pseudonym "A. Square," tells the story of a two-dimensional world where women are straight lines and men are polygons.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner have apologized for their poor behavior. Host Michel Martin asks the beauty shop ladies, what responsibility - if any - women bear when men behave badly? Writers Danielle Belton, Bridget Johnson and Connie Schultz weigh in.

Los demócratas han gozado durante mucho tiempo del apoyo de las organizaciones sindicales, pero muchos de sus afiliados ya no sienten lealtad a ningún partido. El representante del estado de Missouri, el republicano Bill Allen, y su oponente, la demócrata Shirley Mata, miembro del UAW, esperan ganarse a los votantes insatisfechos.

Durante varios meses de sesiones de escucha y entrevistas en los barrios más antiguos de la zona del West Side de Kansas City, Missouri, y de las nuevas comunidades en el condado de Johnson, Kansas, KCUR escuchó historias de cómo los latinos están trayendo culturas distintas a la vez que comparten preocupaciones comunes.

Eight months after an ICE detention facility opened in rural Nebraska, state financial records, ongoing legal challenges, confusing finances and divided local reactions raise questions about whether the facility is delivering the economic benefits and transparency Gov. Jim Pillen promised — or if it is shifting financial and social costs onto a rural Nebraska community.

Professional football players may have an increased risk of later dying from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and ALS, according to a new study in the journal Neurology. Everett Lehman, a researcher at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and co-author of the study, discusses the findings.

The 12 victims of the Navy Yard shootings that brought panic and tragedy to a corner of Washington, D.C., on Monday morning are in many people's thoughts Tuesday, as their names and other information emerge. We'll collect what we know about the victims here.