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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A shower head vendor in Texas asked customers if they'd be willing to pay more for a product that was made in the USA. The answers poured cold water on claims of patriotic purchases.
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People often say dogs and their owners look and act alike. Now there's science to back that up.
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Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research.
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On the heels of his first foreign trip, President Trump got busy on Truth Social. He took swipes at the Supreme Court, Walmart and the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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Israel and Hamas have entered the most substantive negotiations in months in Qatar. The talks come amid intense Israeli airstrikes that have killed more than 500 Palestinians in the past five days. -
When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WSKG listener Cindy Mosqueda, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. -
There was a lot of pomp on President Trump's Middle East trip, but not much talk about the biggest diplomatic challenge in the region — the war in Gaza.
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A survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on a music festival is representing Israel at the Eurovision song competition as critics decry Israel's actions in Gaza.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to George Eaton of New Statesman magazine about the populist, right-wing party Reform UK which is reshaping British politics.
