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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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00:07:13

Kenneth Turan discusses his new book tracing the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation."

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00:03:54

Why maggots love feeding on rotten food

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

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00:04:21

A website sold patients obesity drugs at affordable...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

Patients who bought stockpiles of alternative GLP-1 drugs online aren't sure what to do with them after learning that the compounding pharmacy that made them didn't have the right license.

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00:04:58

Former USAID administrator discusses Trump...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Peter McPherson, a former administrator of the US Agency for International Development, about the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency.

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00:03:26

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are advancing on the capital...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

We'll look at the latest developments in the instability and violence in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed fighters are battling Congolese troops.

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00:04:41

Week in politics: Democrats respond to USAID cuts,...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

We look at where things stand with the 2 million federal workers weighing the Trump administrations offer to resign; massive cuts at USAID and how the Democrats are responding to these developments.

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00:03:19

House Republicans want to pass a budget bill that...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

House Republicans are racing to advance a budget bill that would allow the party to pass many of President Trump's top policy priorities without the threat of a Senate filibuster from Democrats.

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00:04:45

The latest on USAID: Judge pauses order putting over...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

The Trump administration plans to lay off almost all of USAID's staff of nearly 13,000. We look at where it leaves the agency, which administers and provides the majority of U.S. foreign assistance.

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00:03:50

Federal workers losing their jobs will have an...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

There are many places outside of Washington DC that will suffer from an abrupt cut in the size of the federal government. We look at one of those places, the Kansas city metro area.

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00:03:55

Storycorps military voices: The couple that met...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Air Force veterans Linda and Mark Green who met as trumpet players in a military band and are now celebrating 45 years of marriage.

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00:03:48

New Orleans gets ready to host the Super Bowl in the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

The Super Bowl comes to New Orleans this Sunday – but the celebratory mood has been damped as the city still recovers from the New Year's Day terrorist attack.

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00:04:19

A soybean farmer recalls how he was impacted by...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

China's tariff's on U.S. agricultural exports hit American farmers hard back in 2019. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with farmer Josh Gackle about the impacts of another round of such tariffs.

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00:03:53

Ecuador's organized crime and energy crises are at...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

On Sunday Ecuador holds the first round of a Presidential election dominated by the issues of economic insecurity and rising drug gang violence.

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00:06:17

In 'Life Hacks for a Little Alien', a little girl...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Alice Franklin about her debut novel, Life Hacks for a Little Alien.

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00:07:30

Broadway is seeing a steady revival after the...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/08

Five years after the pandemic, have Broadway audiences come back? And what musicals and plays are opening, in the weeks ahead, that might draw in crowds?

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00:03:50

Medical transport plane with 6 people aboard crashes...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/01

An air ambulance with six people aboard crashed and then exploded on Friday evening in Philadelphia. The medical transport plane was returning a patient and her mother to Mexico. Several houses caught on fire close to the crash site. Six people on the ground were taken to the hospital with injuries.

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00:05:29

How a funding freeze ordered by Trump is impacting 2...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/01

With a sudden freeze of funding, two scientists find their livelihoods and futures upended.

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00:04:55

Congolese foreign minister discusses the humanitarian...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/01

NPR's Scott Simon asks Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, the Congolese minister for foreign affairs, about gains made by rebels backed by Rwanda.

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00:04:29

Trump is back — and dominating the media cycle and...

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/01

President Trump is back and filling the airwaves with a constant churn of comments on just about everything, in contrast to the much quieter Biden administration.

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00:05:05

Saturday Sports: Super Bowl preview, WNBA expansion

Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/02/01

NPR's Scott Simon asks ESPN's Michele Steele about the Super Bowl and the expansion of the WNBA.

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