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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For more than 60 years, this maestro of magic has collaborated with towering figures. Now on a new record, he turns to family. -
The White House Correspondents Association Dinner was one of several incidents of gun violence in the U.S. last week. Others ended in injuries and fatalities. -
A panel of judges in Louisiana has just ended telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationally.
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The federal debt passed an uncomfortable milestone this year, outgrowing the entire U.S. economy. That poses risks, but policymakers show little sign of addressing it.
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Spirit Airlines ceased operation overnight. This comes as jet fuel prices - which have soared since the start of the war on Iran - have led to of thousands of flight cuts in Europe and in the U.S.
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Many majority-Black legislative districts could be redrawn after a landmark Supreme Court Case. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Mississippi State Rep. Kabir Karriem about the impacts in his state.
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We look at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's two-day Congressional testimony, as well as what the Supreme Court's changes to the Voting Rights Act will mean for future elections.
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Iran's economy was fragile before the war. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a professor of economics at Virginia Tech, about the current state of the country's economy.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant talk about the first round of the NBA playoffs and the bad start to the Major League Baseball season for the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox.
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A phone booth has been installed at the Boston Public Library where visitors can leave messages. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Meredith Goldstein from the Boston Globe about her project.
