Weekend Edition
Weekends 5-10 am
Kick off your weekend with wrap-ups of the week's news with a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest. Be sure to tune in every Sunday for the Sunday Puzzle!
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Five people were stabbed at the home of a rabbi in New York on Saturday night. Evan Bernstein, the Anti-Defamation League's New York/New Jersey regional director, talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
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Adulting in the 2010s involved some shade, some tea, especially if you were hanging with your bae, rocking some mom jeans in that selfie. We round up the slang that stuck in this decade.
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Ellison Nguyen, 6, wrote the book, and Hien Bui-Stafford, 13, illustrated it. They got a little help from Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Nguyen (Ellison's dad) and cartoonist Thi Bui (Hien's mom). -
The creators of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child designed their show so it wouldn't look like the world Potterheads knew from the movies. They've documented that process in a new book, The Journey. -
As part of Weekend Edition's "People We Lost In 2019" series, Jodi Freedman of Oakland, Calif., tell us about a four-legged friend in her life, her black lab Cody.
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From reality TV stars to a conglomerate, how did the Kardashians come to dominate this past decade? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to writer Zan Romanoff to answer that question.
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Radio host Don Imus died Friday at 79. He was known for his biting take on politics and shock jock demeanor, including an infamous racist and sexist joke about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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Nearly 20 rural hospitals closed in 2019, more than any year in the past decade. And more are expected to close. These rural hospitals often see too few patients to pay for their costs.
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Holidays are good for storytelling and games, so we're combining the two. Writers Kwame Alexander and Alissa Nutting join NPR's Scott Simon for a round-robin story about a cranky little boy.
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Listener Dan Franzen plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
