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Ari Shapiro became a host on NPR's <em data-stringify-type="italic">All Things Considered</em> in 2015. In addition to working as a journalist, he sings with the band Pink Martini and performs in a cabaret act with actor Alan Cumming.

Fresh Air Weekend: NPR host Ari Shapiro; Actor Billy Crudup

Shapiro co-hosts All Things Considered and sings with the band Pink Martini. Now, he's written a memoir. Crudup stars as a fast-talking salesman in the retro-futurist Apple TV+ series Hello Tomorrow!

Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during the 2023 LA Pride in the Park Festival. In the first episode of its second season, the <em>Louder Than A Riot</em> podcast examines the backlash Megan faced after being shot by rapper Tory Lanez.

Fresh Air Weekend: Reckoning with hip-hop's past; Remembering Biggie Smalls

Louder than a Riot podcast hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael say hip-hop is poised for change. Author Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G.

Fresh Air Weekend: Michele Norris; Revisiting the early days of the AIDS crisis

Norris asked people to share their thoughts on race in six words. Her book is Our Hidden Conversations. Kai Wright's "Blindspot" podcast offers a roadmap of social inequities during the AIDS crisis.

A Pegasus rocket containing eight mini-satellites is air-launched on Thursday.

WATCH: NASA Rocket Deploys 'Satellite Constellation' After Unique Air-Launch

NASA has just launched eight micro-satellites that will allow scientists to make better predictions about hurricanes. They deployed from a rocket that was launched from an aircraft.

Fresh Air Weekend: George Clooney; 'Wicked' costume design Paul Tazewell

In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays a movie star struggling with work and family life. Ken Tucker recommends new holiday music. Tazewell created more than 1,000 looks for Wicked: For Good.

Fresh Air Weekend: Nutritionist Marion Nestle; Science writer Mary Roach

Marion Nestle says we should eat "real food, processed as little as possible." Justin Chang reviews Hamnet. Mary Roach reports on the latest in transplant science in her new book, Replaceable You.

A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in southeastern China's Fujian Province on Aug. 5, 2022.

The U.S. says Chinese intercept could have caused an air collision

The U.S. military said that the incident occurred Dec. 21 when a Chinese jet fighter flew in front of and within 20 feet of the nose of a U.S. military reconnaissance plane.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'The Mixed Marriage Project'; The economic cost of racism

Legal scholar Dorothy Roberts reexamines her own family story. Critic David Bianculli recommends TV to watch. Author Heather McGhee says Martin Luther King Jr. would be inspired by today's activism.

Takata Ignition Systems in Schoenebeck, Germany, which makes air bags. Millions of automobiles have been recalled because of a defect in the air bags' inflators.

NHTSA Adds More Than 3 Million Vehicles To Air Bag Recall

Almost 8 million vehicles are now being recalled over worries their air bags could malfunction. Vehicle owners in hot and humid climates are under special alert.

"I was a fearful kid, and my parents didn't quite know what to do with that," Steven Spielberg says. He's pictured above in New York City in March 2017.

Fresh Air Weekend: Celebrating movie icons Steven Spielberg and Carrie Fisher

In 2022, Spielberg describes himself as a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling. In 2016, opened up about Star Wars, the famous gold bikini and her on-set affair co-star with Harrison Ford.

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