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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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00:03:51

40 years ago, tariffs rescued the auto industry...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

In the 1970s, threats of trade tariffs convinced Asian and European automakers to move some production to the U.S. But that battle's already been won – and history is unlikely to repeat itself.

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00:04:48

Behind '60 Minutes' executive producer's departure:...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

The departure of "60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens comes as the news program's corporate owner is trying to sell it off, and amid President Trump's lawsuit against CBS.

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00:08:47

Crowds of mourners and dignitaries pay respects to...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

The funeral of Pope Francis draws the Catholic faithful to St. Peter's Square, as well as royalty and world leaders. The Vatican estimates about 200 thousand people participated in the open-air Mass.

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00:04:43

Week in politics: Almost 100 days into Trump's second...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Nearly 100 days into his new term, President Trump has set an aggressive agenda, spending his political capital and losing some of the public approval he began with.

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00:04:02

A high schooler stays back as his family, separated...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Alex Villatoro is finishing high school in the U.S. without his parents after his father was deported back to Guatemala in January and his mother decided to move there with her three younger children. As immigration enforcement ramps up, families like Villatoro's are being confronted with hard choices.

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00:02:21

Opinion: Pope Francis's sympathy for migrants was...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Pope Francis often spoke with great sympathy for immigrants and refugees. NPR's Scott Simon reminds us that the Pope's father fled Mussolini's Italy, immigrating to Argentina.

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00:01:10

40 years ago, New Coke was introduced

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

Fans of Classic Coke mark the 40th anniversary of the travesty that was New Coke, released On April 23, 1985.

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00:03:03

'Midway Through' tells the story of a woman in her...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

A Miami college student in her 40s shares her experience returning to school and how motherhood has prepared her for this challenge.

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00:05:45

How Trump's tariffs, aims for the Federal Reserve...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Gillian Tett, a columnist at the Financial Times, about the global economic fallout from President Trump's tariff policies.

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00:03:23

Meet the chocolatier behind the world's largest...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

The confectionary company, Cadbury, says it's made the world's largest Creme Egg - about as tall as a USPS mailbox. NPR's Scott Simon talks to chocolatier Dawn Jenks about the creation.

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00:09:38

Rick Atkinson reflects on 250 years since the first...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming."

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00:04:28

Saturday Sports: NBA and NHL playoffs kick off

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.

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00:07:26

'The Wedding Banquet' remakes Ang Lee's romantic...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

"The Wedding Banquet" is a remake of Ang Lee's romantic comedy about marriages of convenience. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Andrew Ahn about the four gay friends, family and tolerance.

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00:04:03

Supreme Court temporarily blocks new deportations...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

A new Supreme Court order temporarily blocks the deportations more Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act - we look at what legal experts have been saying about these deportations.

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00:02:37

Opinion: When a hat becomes a threat

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the Chicago Bulls cap that is being cited as evidence of a deported Maryland man's gang membership.

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00:03:52

U.S. and Iran hold second round of talks on Tehran's...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

Iranian and U.S. officials continue indirect talks aimed at keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The talks come amid reports that Trump told Israel to hold off on attacking Iranian facilities.

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00:03:52

Two small studies show how stem cells could help...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

Two new studies suggest that stem cells are close to helping people with Parkinson's disease. The results are a victory for scientists who have spent decades trying to treat it with brain cells.

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00:04:07

Supreme Court suspends Trump administration's...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

The Trump administration is considering sending people who are accused of crimes in the U.S. to prisons in El Salvador, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. Legal experts say sending people to foreign prisons is like dropping them into a black box, where they don't have the protections people in U.S. custody are afforded.

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00:02:53

30 years later, a play about the Oklahoma City...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

On the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, a theater production brings the stories of survivors and victims to the next generation.

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00:06:48

Soviet dissident and chess player Garry Kasparov...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/19

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

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