Weekend Edition
Weekends 5-10 am
Kick off your weekend with wrap-ups of the week's news with a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest. Be sure to tune in every Sunday for the Sunday Puzzle!
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NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg is retiring. She became the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program in 1972, and helped loosen up the serious, stodgy sound of radio hosts. -
Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney craft a kind of chemistry that is equal parts funny and heart-wrenching. -
Federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers they said were in the U.S. illegally at a construction site in Georgia for a South Korean battery maker. Officials said it was the largest immigration enforcement action at a site.
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President Trump has been awarding trusted aides with more than one job. But how does this affect the function of those positions?
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We discuss the possible deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, a stalled job market, and what the renaming of the Department of Defense might signal.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning during this week's Senate hearing as frustration, confusion, and anger grew among lawmakers and citizens regarding his controversial vaccine policies
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President Trump is ramping up threats to send the National Guard into several major cities despite a federal judge ruling that his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal.
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The long-awaited sequel to the wildly popular indie video game is finally out, six years after fans learned one would come along.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss sports and issues pertaining to sports,
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The congressional redistricting fights that President Trump has sparked in Texas, California and Missouri is leading some advocacy groups to reconsider their position on partisan gerrymandering.
