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Weekend Edition Saturday

Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program 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.

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00:03:38

Elections in Poland and Romania could shape the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

Voters go to the polls in presidential elections in Poland and Romania on Sunday with potentially big consequences for Europe and Ukraine.

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00:04:47

Trump's attacks on DEI are complicating corporate...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

NPR's Scott Simon asks Twin Cities Pride Executive Director Andi Otto about partnering with corporations amid efforts to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

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00:04:47

Cannes 2025: new fashion rules, movies in the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New York Magazine critic Alison Willmore about the year's lineup.

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00:04:46

Week in politics: House Republicans block Trump's...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

House Republicans blocked a major funding and tax cut bill and will reconvene Sunday to negotiate further.

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00:04:32

I'm With Her discuss their new album 'Wild and Clear...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

I'm With Her's new album is all about the music that members Aoife O'Donovan, Sara Watkins, and Sarah Jarosz grew up on. Their new album is "Wild and Clear and Blue."

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00:02:34

Opinion: A wealth of wisdom for a bargain price

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/17

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the discovery that what Harvard University thought was a copy of the Magna Carta is actually an original.

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00:05:35

Saturday Sports: NBA and NHL playoffs

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.

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00:03:53

U.S. cardinals react to the new pope being from Chicago

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church.

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00:05:47

Trump announces ceasefire agreement between India and...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, about rising tensions between India and Pakistan.

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00:04:41

Tariffs force a rubber duck museum to move across the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

The Rubber Duck Museum in Pt. Roberts, Wash., is moving because Canadians are no longer coming to the border town. Neil and Krystal King tell NPR's Scott Simon why.

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00:05:00

Composer John Adams' opera 'Antony and Cleopatra'...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

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00:08:36

'Class Clown' looks back on Dave Barry's...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

Dave Barry says he's always been the "class clown." His new book looks back at his "first 77 years," examining the funny but also the tragic. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the Pulitzer Prize winner.

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00:03:41

India and Pakistan continue attacks even as they say...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

After targeting each other's airbases, Pakistan and India say they are open to de-escalation.

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00:03:56

U.S.-China trade talks kick off in Geneva

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva, Switzerland, for trade talks as the Trump administration pushes for progress in its trade wars.

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00:04:40

Week in politics: U.S. stays away from new conflict,...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

The Trump administration is not eager to involve itself in international conflicts like the one between India and Pakistan.

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00:03:55

Russia marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

Russia's celebration this weekend of the Soviet victory over the Nazis 80 years ago comes under the shadow of its invasion of Ukraine.

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00:04:58

After lynx were spotted in the Scottish highlands,...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

The reappearance of lynx in Scotland raised concern about an illegal reintroduction effort. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Peter Cairns of Scotland The Big Picture about what rogue rewilding entails.

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00:07:27

How soap operas got their start in Chicago

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natalie Moore about the legacy of soap operas. She is host and writer of "Stories Without End," the new season of the WBEZ podcast "Making."

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00:02:26

Opinion: My hometown pope

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/10

News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his hometown.

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00:02:32

Americans are relying more on therapy than medication...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/05/03

The number of Americans relying on psychotherapy went up between 2018 and 2021, whereas the number of people using psychiatric medications went down.

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