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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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3:56

Nebraska high school students learn how to channel...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Students from Nebraska learn how to lobby for causes that matter to them.

3:40

Saturday Sports: College basketball final four

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss college basketball's Final Four. Can anyone stop South Carolina's women and UConn's men this year?

1:23

Celebrating Clark, the bald eagle

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

We celebrate Clark, a famous bald eagle. The celebrity eagle is an ambassador for his species. His father, Captain, was gifted to President Ronald Reagan by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

3:55

Pluto was discovered at an Arizona observatory. It...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

There's bipartisan support in Arizona to make Pluto the official state planet. Pluto was discovered at an observatory in Arizona, but was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.

3:20

Science has developed petunias that glow in the dark

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Petunias that glow in the dark are a thing now. The genetically modified flowers actually generate their own light, and are now legal to sell.

2:44

Opinion: Air Force One and the great pillowcase plunder

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Journalists with sticky fingers: NPR's Scott Simon talks about items missing from Air Force One, prompting the White House Correspondents Association to remind reporters to leave these things be.

3:39

Oakland is losing the A's but gaining a minor league...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Oakland is losing the A's but gaining a minor-league baseball team. Scott Simon talks with Don Wakamatsu, head of baseball operations of the Oakland Ballers and former major league player and coach.

8:42

Ezra Koenig on the new Vampire Weekend album 'Only...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

There's a lot of New York City in the new Vampire Weekend Album. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ezra Koenig, lead singer/songwriter of the band, about their latest, "Only God Was Above Us."

4:08

Tennessee became the first state to protect musicians...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

A Tennessee bill seeks to ban unauthorized deepfakes and regulate how AI platforms use copyrighted material to train algorithms without permission.

11:04

How 6 months of Israel's war in Gaza have upended the...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

Three NPR correspondents look at how the Israel-Hamas war is reshaping the region, and what might come next.

4:40

As General Electric completes a series of spinoffs, a...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with writer William Cohan, author of "Power Failure," on the history of General Electric, once one of America's largest companies. It finished a series of spin-offs this week.

4:19

Chicago is a hotspot in the measles outbreak. Here's...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

NPR's Scott Simon asks Dr. Allison Bartlett of the University of Chicago about the dangers of measles and why Chicago is a hotspot in the current outbreak.

6:26

Meet the retired science teacher who trekked 600...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

The solar eclipse is on Monday, and we hear from a teacher from New York who traveled 600 miles to witness his first one fifty years ago.

3:44

UAW gets closer to unionizing Volkswagen, Mercedes...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

The United Auto Workers union is inching closer to unionizing plants in the South. Workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant will soon vote on a union, with Mercedes workers in Alabama not far behind.

7:54

Annabelle Tometich on her memoir 'The Mango Tree'

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/06

NPR Scott Simon talks with journalist Annabelle Tometich about her book, "The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit Florida, and Felony."

4:15

Why there's a long-standing voter registration gap...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/04/02

The two fastest-growing groups of eligible U.S. voters — Latinos and Asian Americans — also have the lowest voter registration rates. Advocates are trying to boost sign-ups for a healthier democracy.

7:39

Chicano Batman keeps its style, but returns to roots...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/03/30

NPR's Scott Simons speaks with Bardo Martinez, the lead singer of the Latin rock band Chicano Batman, about their fifth album, "Notebook Fantasy."

0:54

A South Korean company is paying employees to have...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/03/30

A company in South Korea is offering financial incentives to help boost the country's lagging birth rate.

6:59

Carys Davies' 'Clear' follows a reverend's journey to...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/03/30

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carys Davies about her new novel, "Clear." The novel is set in Scotland during the 1840s, when tenant farmers were moved off the land and to cities and the coast.

3:51

The Yurok tribe regains Redwood park land to create...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/03/30

Some 125 acres of forest land in California's Redwood National and State Parks will return to the Yurock tribe in a first-of-its-kind arrangement.

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