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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Shedrick Yarkpai escaped war-torn Liberia under an assumed name, which he kept as he started a new life in Australia. Objects in the Mirror follows Yarkpai's struggle to reclaim his identity. -
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois about the Paris climate change agreement, health care reform and the Democrats' strategy in Congress.
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What exactly did President Trump mean by covfefe? Was it a deliberate attempt at a word by POTUS or a simple fudge of the fingers? NPR's Scott Simon has an idea.
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The Philippines president brags about killing drug dealers and is praised by President Trump. Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations tells NPR's Scott Simon that Trump's approach is wrong.
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The White House is deciding whether to prohibit airline passengers from bringing laptops on board flights from Europe. Travel industry leaders say it could have a chilling effect on travel business.
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Migrants from Central America seeking asylum in the U.S. are traveling in a caravan to the border to make the trip safer, and pressuring immigration officials to take them seriously.
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Two men were killed as they intervened to help women targeted by a man delivering an anti-Muslim rant. Molly Solomon of Oregon Public Broadcasting tells us the status of the investigation.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, and Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary, about what to do and what not to do when buying a home.
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David Wallechinsky, president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro that the Rio Olympics wasted money and were plagued by corruption.
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Raging cyclones and an uneven magnetic field: NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to NASA scientist Jack Connerney about the surprising findings made by a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.
