Weekend Edition Saturday
Saturday, 7am - 9am
Whether revealing events in small-town America or overseas, or profiling notable personalities, Weekend Edition from NPR News appreciates the extraordinary details that make up every story. This two-hour morning newsmagazine covers hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor. On Saturdays, host Scott Simon's award-winning commentaries sum up an idea or event related to the week's news. There are fresh reports from a cross-section of NPR correspondents on topics from religion to health to food to politics. Simon's interviews with key artists, authors, performers and personalities are always memorable.
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Mechanics need different skills to fix electric vehicles. That's contributing to a shortage of EV mechanics. In New Hampshire, EV training programs are working to get technicians up to speed.
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The slasher film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been pulled from theaters in Hong Kong and Macau - and not because of its terrible Rotten Tomatoes score. The Silly Old Bear has been used in protest memes against President Xi Jinping. -
NPR's beloved correspondent in Rome is retiring after a decades-long career.
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Author Xelena Gonzalez and illustrator Adriana Garcia talk about rocks and about working together on their new children's book, "Where Wonder Grows," for our series "Picture This."
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with drag star Eureka O'Hara about a new law in Tennessee that prohibits drag performances on public property.
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The women's and men's NCAA basketball tournaments continue and the World Baseball Classic comes to a cinematic end.
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With many U.S. school districts grappling with teacher shortages, we look at the forces behind these shortages and what can be done about them.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Peter Nelson, a fire chief in Accord, N.Y., about the challenges of recruiting volunteer firefighters.
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Brazil's new president is headed to China this weekend in an effort to put Latin America's largest economy back on the world stage after years of isolation by his far right predecessor.
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People who work to assure the quality of Google search results are asking for labor rights.
