Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.
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Turkey returns to the polls for its presidential run-off election
Today is Turkey's run-off election. Two weeks ago President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to get a clear majority in his bid for reelection.
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Texas House votes to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton
The Republican-led Texas House of Representatives has voted to impeach Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Companies pull back from Pride campaigns after backlash, and threats toward employees
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Katherine Sender, a professor at Cornell University focusing on media and sexuality, about the state of corporate LGBTQ+ Pride campaigns.
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New plaques give names to those buried at New York State prisons
In New York, gravestones of people who died in prison only identified them by number. Now that's changing after a pastor and another formerly incarcerated man argued the dead deserved to be named.
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Uvalde massacre prompted a Texas law requiring more training for police
American police see Uvalde as a lesson in what not to do. Trainers say police need to make sure they have the skills and emotional commitment to risk their lives to stop a killer.
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Comedian Jamie Loftus's book 'Raw Dog' chronicles her hot-dog eating travels
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with comedian Jamie Loftus about her book "Raw Dog," which chronicles her hot-dog eating travels.
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Colorado Springs Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade reflects on his historic victory
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Colorado Springs Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade about his victory in Tuesday's election. He's the first Black person to be elected mayor there.
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Prince Harry has filed multiple lawsuits against tabloids in the U.K.
NPR's Ayesha Rscoe talks with media expert Tim Luckhurst of Durham University in England about the lawsuits Prince Harry has filed against several tabloids there.
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Composers created music inspired by seismic readings from Yellowstone National Park
A musical score inspired by seismic readings from Yellowstone National Park is just the latest example of data sonification.
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A mass shooting at an outlet mall in Dallas left at least 9 dead and 7 injured
Nine people, including the gunman, were killed at a mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas Saturday afternoon. At least five other remain hospitalized. Three are in critical condition.
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Claire Dederer on her book 'Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma'
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with critic Claire Dederer. She's expanded her 2017 essay "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men" in a new book about the perils - and joys - of fandom.
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Arab countries are normalizing relations with Syria, over a decade after the uprising
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dalia Dassa Kaye, a political scientist at UCLA's Burkle Center, about the consequences of normalizing relations with Syria. Some Arab countries want to do so.