Weekend Edition Saturday on PRE News And Ideas
Saturdays, 8am - 10am
From civil wars in Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police stations, and America's backyards, NPR's Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a well-traveled perspective as he hosts Weekend Edition Saturday.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Bruce Japsen, senior healthcare contributor at Forbes, about a major healthcare provider getting hacked and what that means for patients.
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New Mexico is the twelfth state to require a waiting period for gun purchases. Safety experts say waiting periods can help reduce gun related suicides, but advocates say more needs to be done.
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We look at how one town in Colombia pays homage to the donkey at one of the country's most popular annual festivals.
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Food writer and editor Ruth Reichl's new book, "The Paris Novel," is a coming-of age story full of the author's favorite things: Art, fashion, literature, 1980s Paris, and - of course - oysters.
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The federal government says it will restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region in Washington state, where they have not been seen since 1996.
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In the upcoming elections, the German Anti-Immigrant Party seeks votes from Turkish-German Voters.
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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss how Reggie Bush got his Heisman Trophy back, and the newest star in Chicago sports.
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Widad Kawar, 94, started collecting Palestinian dresses when she was a child in Jerusalem and founded a museum dedicated to Palestinian embroidery. She talks about what has been lost and what endures.
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Former president Donald Trump's trial in New York city proceeds as the Supreme Court appears poised to give him more delay in the federal case over Jan. 6th.
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Three decades since the first democratic election in South Africa, will the generation that has never known apartheid turn out to vote, or has politics left many of them too disillusioned?