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        "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon. "
Latest Episodes
    
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                        NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg is retiring. She became the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program in 1972, and helped loosen up the serious, stodgy sound of radio hosts.
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                        Federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers they said were in the U.S. illegally at a construction site in Georgia for a South Korean battery maker. Officials said it was the largest immigration enforcement action at a site.
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                        President Trump has been awarding trusted aides with more than one job. But how does this affect the function of those positions?
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                        We discuss the possible deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, a stalled job market, and what the renaming of the Department of Defense might signal.
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                        Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning during this week's Senate hearing as frustration, confusion, and anger grew among lawmakers and citizens regarding his controversial vaccine policies
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                        President Trump is ramping up threats to send the National Guard into several major cities despite a federal judge ruling that his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal.
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                        The long-awaited sequel to the wildly popular indie video game is finally out, six years after fans learned one would come along.
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                        NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss sports and issues pertaining to sports,
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                        The congressional redistricting fights that President Trump sparked in Texas, California and other states have led some advocacy groups to reconsider their strategies against partisan gerrymandering.
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                        In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro is on trial, accused of attempting to overturn the 2022 election. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Gustavo Ribeiro of The Brazilian Report about what's at stake.
 
 
