Weekend Edition
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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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Boeing is currently working on a software fix for its troubled 737 Max jetliner but the challenge for the company is not just to fix the plane's behavior, it also needs to factor in human behavior.
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The greetings investors are giving initial public offerings from Lyft and Levi Strauss demonstrate what Wall Street values and what it does not.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., about the situation in Venezuela and the end of the Mueller investigation.
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The U.S. and Syrian-Kurdish forces have driven ISIS out of Syria. Now, tens of thousands of the women and children — the families of ISIS fighters — are in an overcrowded, remote camp in Syria.
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Nora McInerny is the author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking. NPR's Scott Simon talks with McInerny about her new memoir, No Happy Endings.
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The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in St. Louis burned in a massive fire on Tuesday. But firefighters were able to save many of the priceless documents inside. Kerry Manderbach is the director.
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Goerke, who's singing in the current Metropolitan Opera Ring cycle, overcame a vocal crisis to become one of today's leading dramatic sopranos. -
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Tony Travers of the London School of Economics about the drama surrounding Brexit.
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Algerians gathered for the country's largest protests yet against President Bouteflika's bid to run again for a fifth term.
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There have been three apparent suicides in Parkland, Fla. and Newtown, Conn. in the past two weeks. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sherrie Lawson, a survivor of the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
