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Tom Philpott, who covers food and the agricultural industry for Mother Jones, joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a wide-ranging discussion about health and other issues affecting the meat industry.

Former Marine Jesse Kelly, who ran against Gabrielle Giffords, has avoided such images in his campaign to fill her seat in an upcoming special election.

For decades, San Francisco DJ Cheb i Sabbah has explored numerous fusions and reconfigurations of North African, Middle Eastern and Indian music styles. He's now in the midst of a health crisis, and many of his musician friends are lending support through a benefit album.

A judge has sentenced a Massachusetts teenager to spend a year behind bars for his role in a fatal crash that police say happened while he was texting. His conviction is one of the first under a new state law that makes it a criminal offense to injure someone while texting and driving.

Three-year-old thoroughbred I'll Have Another has a shot to become the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Washington Post horse racing columnist Andy Beyer talks about why the feat is so difficult and his predictions for the 2012 Belmont Stakes.

Renting property can be tricky business. Landlords hand their apartments and houses –at least for a time – over to virtual strangers. And tenants have no…

The phenomenon is known to have broad implications for global weather.

The Senate will spend the next several weeks hashing through the farm bill. The legislation deals with everything from crop insurance subsidies to food stamps.

A bipartisan group of senators has called an investigation into how the news media has received information from the White House about drone strikes and cyber warfare.

A Massachusetts judge imposed the maximum sentence on a teen driver who was texting when they caused an accident that killed a pedestrian. It's part of a growing effort in a few states to bring tougher charges and impose harsher sentences for texting while driving.