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  • With its Friday release of some three million pages, the Department of Justice says it has released all of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  • The conviction of four Proud Boys members for plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol is high profile, but what impact will it have? NPR's Leila Fadel asks extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss.
  • A new cookbook from America's Test Kitchen offers tips for people with chronic back pain to minimize bending and standing in the kitchen. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on May 6, 2023.)
  • Two days after the Spurs throttled the Heat by nearly 40 points, Miami responded with a rout of its own in San Antonio to tie up the NBA Finals at two games apiece. Even better news for the defending champions? The Big Three, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh, finally look like the Big Three again. Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about that and the scourge of flopping.
  • The death toll from tornadoes that tore through the South continues to rise Wednesday, as authorities prepare to go door-to-door to search for victims. Fay Graves, who manages a McDonald's restaurant in Jackson, Tenn., describes the destruction.
  • Congress this week passed — by a veto-proof margin — legislation to cancel a 10.6 percent pay cut to doctors who care for Medicare patients. But President Bush says he'll veto it anyway, because the bill also reduces funding to private insurance plans that participate in Medicare.
  • The bipartisan Senate bill aimed at easing the nation's housing crisis includes billions of dollars in grants and loans for homebuyers. It also has tax breaks for builders and other businesses. Critics say the bill doesn't go far enough to help struggling homeowners.
  • Authorities in Cleveland are providing new details on the conclusion of a decadelong kidnapping case. Three women who went missing between 2000 and 2003 were discovered alive in a home last night, and three brothers have been arrested. Steve Inskeep talks with Brian Bull from member station WCPN in Cleveland.
  • David Greene talks to Bloomberg reporter Mehul Srivastava, who has been covering last month's Dhaka factory building collapse, about recent labor improvement agreements that retailers and the government in Bangladesh have signed.
  • During the 2011 uprising in Egypt, police disappeared from the streets and were replaced by neighborhood watch committees. The groups have re-emerged during the violent stand-off between Egypt's military rulers and Islamist supporters of deposed President Morsi and people are reporting incidents of theft and harassment at checkpoints.
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