Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.
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Episodes
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Prince Andrew Addresses His Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein
Britain's Prince Andrew is denying ever having met a woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with him.
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Experts Worry Active Shooter Drills In Schools Could Be Traumatic For Students
With lockdown drills now commonplace in public schools, experts question if they're doing more harm than good. "We don't light a fire in the hallway to practice fire drills," one professor tells NPR.
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'Alt.Latino' Playlist
NPR's Alt.Latino posts playlists weekly. We mine some recent playlists for some surprising and noteworthy tracks.
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Sunday Puzzle: 7 Letters
WNYC listener Julia Frey of Brooklyn, N.Y., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
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Helping First-Generation College Students
At one Illinois school, first-generation students — the first in their families to go to college — make up 43% of the student population. The school has a program to help them navigate college.
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Iraqi Authorities Crack Down On Protesters
Iraqi security forces are cracking down on protesters amid continued anti-government protests.
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50 Years Of 'Sesame Street'
When Sesame Street debuted 50 years ago, it was a game-changer for children's TV, with a multicultural cast and some wildly funny Muppets.
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Lauren Michele Jackson On 'White Negroes'
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Lauren Michele Jackson about her new book White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation.
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Sunday Puzzle: Cocoa
Listener Gabrielle Sweets plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
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When Migrants Die, Many Bodies Remain Unidentified
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Kristian Hernández of the Center for Public Integrity about the deaths of unidentified migrants, and how their families back home struggle with grief and closure.
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Closing The Open Skies
The Trump administration may be ready to bail out of the Open Skies treaty, which for 17 years has allowed the U.S. and Russia to surveil each other by taking aerial photos.
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Yazidi Advocate Reacts To ISIS Leader's Death
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Hadi Pir, vice president of a Yazidi advocacy organization, about how the minority group targeted by ISIS feels about the death of its leader.