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Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news, offers a mix of analysis and features such topics as arts, sports, entertainment and human interest stories.
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Latest Episodes
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A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.
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The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: Leave voluntarily, or you'll be detained and deported. This has forced some immigrant families in the U.S. to grapple with very hard choices.
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The State Department denied one Venezuelan Little League team entry into the U.S., but allowed another. NPR's Scott Simon questions how the sports exemption to Trump's travel ban is being applied.
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A nearly wordless meditation on the building blocks of civilization — stone and concrete — Viktor Kossakovsky's documentary Architecton is a dazzling sensory overload.
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Experts say famine's unfolding in Gaza, prompting global outrage, calls for Israel to end the war and acknowledgement by Trump of starvation.
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The U.S. job market slowed sharply this spring, as President Trump's tariffs took effect. Trump is calling for even higher import taxes in the coming week.
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We look at international reaction to President Trump's latest round of tariffs.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.
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The humanitarian situation in El Fasher, one of the regional capitals of Darfur, is dire, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces laying siege to the city for the past 15 months.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dave Jorgenson, the creator of the Washington Post's TikTok channel, about his new media organization and the future of short-form content in newsrooms.