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To mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, NPR News provides comprehensive coverage on the air and online. For Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon talks with Jimmy Dunne, who is working to rebuild his investment firm after it lost 66 people in the attacks.

Birds may be a familiar sight, but studying their migration patterns is difficult. They travel at night — thousands of feet in the air — defying scientists' attempts to track them. Bird expert Miyoko Chu discusses the many mysteries of bird migration.

Director/producer Nick Park is the three-time Academy Award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace and Gromit. His newest film, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is now in theaters.

The Base Closure and Realignment Commission adds two military facilities to its list of proposed base closings -- the Navy Broadway Complex in San Diego, Calif., and the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine. Any final decisions on base closures will be made in August.

NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Melissa Block read from listeners' letters in response to stories we aired on the theft of Edward Munch's "The Scream," Mike Shuster's final installment of the history of the Middle East and the West, and our point and counterpoint commentaries on the Swift Boat Veterans anti-Kerry TV ads.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the self-titled debut album from the band Vampire Weekend. The quartet has drawn praise — and pointed criticism — for its hooky, globally influenced pop.

Two new novels feature highly educated main characters who discover that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. Maureen Corrigan reviews The Philosopher's Apprentice, by James Morrow, and The Soul Thief, by Charles Baxter.

As the United Nations' former under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Jan Egeland has tracked down violent guerrilla leaders, confronted warlords and addressed humanitarian crises around the world. His new memoir is A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity.

A political ad that's been airing on radio stations from South Texas to Detroit goes after transgender care for teens.

Medical residents at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia move to unionize in search of better working conditions. (This piece originally aired April 4, 2023, on All Things Considered.)