On Sundays, Weekend Edition combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features, appealing to the curious and eclectic. With a nod to traditional Sunday habits, the program offers a fix for diehard crossword addicts-word games and brainteasers with The Puzzlemaster, a.k.a. Will Shortz, puzzle editor of The New York Times. With Hansen on the sidelines, a caller plays the latest word game on the air while listeners compete silently at home. The NPR mailbag is proof that the competition to go head-to-head with Shortz is rather vigorous.
Another trademark of Sunday's program is "Voices in the News," a montage of sound bites from the past week, poignant in its simplicity. Hansen also engages listeners in her discussions with regular contributors, who cover a wide range of national and international issues.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Marina Diamandis, who performs as MARINA, about her new album "Princess of Power."
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Oklahoma City is getting ready for Game Seven of the NBA finals. The city has never won the title. Fans hope this will be the year.
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The Pentagon provided a briefing on the U.S. airstrikes on Iran Sunday morning, after President Trump took direct action for the first time in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the role Russia and China could play in de-escalating the Iran-Israel conflict.
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The Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., includes a section of graves of LGBTQ Americans. We take a pride month tour.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dan Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, about the regional impact of American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Middle East analyst, author, negotiator and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior fellow Aaron David Miller for his views on the U.S strike on Iran.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Arash Azizi, who studies both Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian opposition, what Iran's next moves may be now that the U.S. has struck its nuclear sites.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Sarah-Masha Fainberg, a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University, about Israel's next moves after the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities.
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A heat wave is moving across the U.S., resulting in both high temperatures and dangerously high humidity. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with meteorologist Ben Noll of the Washington Post.