Weekend Edition Saturday
Saturdays 5 - 10 a.m.
Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.
Drawing on his experience in covering 10 wars and stories in all 50 states and seven continents, Simon brings a humorous, sophisticated and often moving perspective to each show. He is as comfortable having a conversation with a major world leader as he is talking with a Hollywood celebrity or the guy next door.
Simon also contributes his own award-winning essays, which are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.
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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the popularity of ranch dressing among international visitors to the U.S. during the World Cup games. -
The U.S. government is asserting a new level of influence over AI, controlling which companies can access Anthropic's new models. OpenAI agreed to let the administration screen users of its new model.
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Texas students will be required to read Bible passages and learn about the role of Christianity in the state's history under new reading lists and social studies curriculum expected to be approved Friday.
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Three days after twin earthquakes hit Venezuela, rescue teams race against time amid mounting casualties, strained relief efforts, and mounting criticism of the governments response.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karol Bassim, senior program manager at International Medical Corps about the situation on the ground in Venezuela after two devastating earthquakes there this week.
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This week the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a green light to expel hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants who've been living and working legally in the U.S.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant have a World Cup knockout stage preview and discuss Serena Williams' return to Wimbledon.
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President Trump has an interest in a piece of voting legislation, called the SAVE America Act, that is not shared by all of his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill.
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Prof. Ajay Narendra from Macquarie University in Australia tells NPR about his team's discovery of a particularly rare, and high-powered, hunting method of the informally named "ballista spider."
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In China, the northeast Dongbei region looms large. Once a gritty, industrial hub, now this rust belt area is the source of music, literature, comedy and culture that have gained wide popularity.
