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NPR Weekend Edition Saturday

Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week"s news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR"s Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.

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2:28

Winter storm causes power outages, closings and...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

A winter storm is still causing cancellations and power outages in parts of the south this morning.

7:10

Bomb threats shadowed international reporters who...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were accused of making bomb threats. An NPR investigation now has them wondering if it was the work of the Chinese government or someone else.

4:00

Trump's national security team will start their...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

President-elect Trump's picks for his national security team will soon start confirmation hearings, after his remarks about buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal and making Canada a state.

4:03

Why don't Americans know Robbie Williams, the UK pop...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

UK pop sensation Robbie Williams is the subject of a new biopic, but a lot of Americans have absolutely no idea who he is.

5:44

Legal expert says the bipartisan Laken Riley Act is...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

NPR's Scott Simon talks to law professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University about the Laken Riley Act, a bipartisan bill in Congress that aims to expand the detention of undocumented immigrants.

3:51

Dockworkers strike averted as shipping companies...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

The threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.

4:09

Ukrainian diplomat makes last push for NATO...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

Ukraine's outgoing representative makes a case for her country's NATO membership even as the incoming Trump administration opposes it.

3:40

Supreme Court to decide the fate of TikTok in the US

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

TikTok and the Justice Department squared off before the Supreme Court. On the line is the fate of the viral video app, which is used by half of Americans. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to save the service, but the app's future could be decided by the high court.

8:09

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on the...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths."

4:08

Saturday Sports: College football final, NFL playoffs...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant talk about the college football final, the start of the NFL playoffs and the opening round of the Australian Open tennis championship.

4:15

Week in politics: Trump blames Gavin Newsom for...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

President-elect Donald Trump picks a fight with California Governor Gavin Newsom as the wildfires burn, and was sentenced this week.

2:23

Opinion: When Jimmy Carter and I spoke about UFOs

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

NPR's Scott Simon recalls a conversation he once had with the late President Jimmy Carter about the possibility of UFOs.

7:30

Rusty Sabich is back (and retired) in Scott Turow's...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to novelist Scott Turow about his latest legal thriller, "Presumed Guilty."

5:37

Anita Desai's new novel 'Rosarita' explores the...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

NPR'S Scott Simon speaks with novelist, Anita Desai, about her new book, "Rosarita," and about the dual lives women can lead.

3:27

An army of community volunteers springs into action...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/11

"It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.

3:53

2024 was the hottest year on record. The reason...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/10

The official numbers are in: 2024 is the hottest year on record. Climate change is the main culprit. But there might be something else going on, too.

3:34

Research that shows fish responding to ketamine may...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/04

New research shows that the anesthetic ketamine keeps fish from giving up — and the way it works may help figure out how it works in humans and lead to better medications for depression.

5:34

FBI investigates New Orleans attack as terrorism, Las...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/04

The FBI is investigating the Jan. 1 attack in New Orleans as an act of terrorism while the motivation for the Jan 1. truck explosion in Las Vegas is still unclear but appears to be mental illness.

4:12

House and Senate majority leaders set the agenda for...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/04

The new Republican majorities in the House and Senate plan to move border legislation and cabinet confirmations first, with tax bills coming later this year.

4:38

Saturday Sports: NFL last week, college football,...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/01/04

NPR's Eric Deggans talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about the last week of the NFL regular season, the college football playoff semifinals, and a clothing controversy in chess.

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