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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Mueller Report: Understanding Redactions
Lawmakers anxiously await the Mueller report, but there's a catch: redactions. Greg Brower, formerly the FBI's chief liaison to Congress, discusses with Lulu Garcia-Navarro what might be blacked out.
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Reacting To The LDS Church's Latest LGBT Policy Change
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reversed a controversial policy about children of same-sex couples being baptized. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jamison Manwaring.
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Juno Flies By Jupiter
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks NASA scientist Steven Levin about the spacecraft Juno's latest Jupiter fly-by, occurring this weekend.
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A Math Teacher's Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He Mentored
A biologist at Harvard was chatting with a colleague about a mentor who pushed him to do harder math problems. It turns out the colleague had the same mentor — and so did many others.
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Sunday Puzzle: Shuffle A Couple Letters For This Category Challenge
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game this week with KCFR listener Richard Bauman of Golden, Colo.
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Georgia's Abortion Bill Matches Trend Toward More Restrictions
Georgia lawmakers have passed a "fetal heartbeat" abortion bill. It's part of a larger trend, with many state legislatures taking steps toward banning the procedure early in pregnancy.
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What It's Like To Be A Transgender Person In ICE Custody
Johely Campos Cervantes was detained by ICE in 2018. She describes to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro how she was treated as a transgender person in ICE custody.
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View From Mexico On Trump's Latest Rhetoric
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks José Díaz-Briseño, Washington correspondent for the Mexican newspaper Reforma, how Mexico has been reacting to the latest escalation in rhetoric from President Trump.
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How InterSurgeon Connects Surgeons Around The World
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to William Harkness, co-founder of InterSurgeon, a free service that connects surgeons globally and helps low-income countries provide access to surgical care.
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Snakes In A House
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Nathan Hawkins, owner of Big Snake Country Removal, about removing 45 rattlesnakes from under a Texas home.
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BuzzFeed News Investigation Finds World Wildlife Fund Backs Paramilitary Abuses
A year long investigation by BuzzFeed News has unearthed human rights violations by the anti-poaching patrols the World Wildlife Fund employs. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with reporter Katie Baker.
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Voters Respond To Mueller Investigation's End
Across the country, Americans are absorbing the news that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe is complete — and awaiting more information about its findings.