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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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5:15

Saturday Sports: NFL draft, Stanley Cup playoffs,...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the soccer fandom of Pope Francis, the NFL draft and hockey's Stanley Cup playoffs.

4:44

Federal employees find themselves without health...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Some federal employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again by the Trump administration are now learning their health coverage lapsed despite being told otherwise.

5:11

How the funeral of Pope Francis exemplified his values

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

The funeral of Pope Francis demonstrated the values he held dear, from the theme of the gospel passage to the music he chose for the Mass. He also broke tradition with his final burial wishes.

5:58

Sudan's capital city is finally repaired — but...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Sudan's capital city has been liberated after more than two years of civil war, but it's been left in ruins.

3:48

U.N. says it has run out of food in Gaza amidst...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

The World Food Programme says it has run out of food. It's been eight weeks since Israel stopped all aid coming into Gaza. The U-N agency warns of mass starvation.

7:57

A look at the Kremlin's negotiating strategy

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

As the Trump administration continues to flood the news cycles with its efforts to end to the war in Ukraine, NPR looks at the Kremlin's negotiating strategy.

3:51

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

NPR 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.

4:48

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

NPR 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.

8:29

Crowds of mourners and dignitaries pay respects to...

NPR 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.

4:43

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

NPR 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.

4:02

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

NPR 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.

6:56

'Chooch Helped' this author and illustrator win the...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Author Andrea L. Rogers and artist Rebecca Lee Kunz met by chance at the Cherokee National Holiday. Then they won the 2025 Caldecott Medal for their story about a helpful little boy named Chooch.

4:58

Built on a rich coffee history, Yemeni cafes find...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/26

Yemen is an ancient birthplace of the coffee trade, and immigrants fleeing its civil war have brought their culture here in the form of cafes. Hundreds of Yemeni coffee shops have opened in the U.S.

2:21

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

NPR 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.

6:07

Jennifer Higdon won't apologize for writing...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/04/25

As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.

1:10

40 years ago, New Coke was introduced

NPR 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.

3:03

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

NPR 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.

5:45

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

NPR 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.

3:23

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

NPR 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.

9:38

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

NPR 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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