Weekend Edition Saturday

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II this week. The four astronauts aboard will travel around the moon.

Two U.S. planes went down in the war in Iran on Friday, even as President Trump said the conflict will end soon.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the latest developments in the war in Iran.

We look at the escalations in the war with Iran, including what we know about the downed U.S. F-15 jet, the latest targets struck in Iran, and its retaliatory attacks on countries in the region.

New data from the Labor Department shows stronger than expected jobs growth. NPR's Scott Simon asks Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, for her reaction.

Jonathan -- the world's oldest land animal -- lives! NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Joe Hollins, veterinarian of 194-year-old tortoise, and Nigel Phillips, governor of St. Helena, about a crypto hoax.

President Trump claimed victory in Iran during a prime-time address to the nation. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out, and the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on birthright citizenship.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss the Final Four.

Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez returned to the U.S. this week after being wrongfully deported. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Estrada Juárez and her daughter, Damaris Bello, about their experience.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with singer, pianist and composer Bruce Hornsby about his new album "Indigo Park" and 40 years since the release of his biggest hit, "The Way It Is."

Scientists discover what makes basketball shoes squeak on the courts, and celebrate their discovery by making music.

The federal debt continues to grow, topping $39 trillion this month. Like a shopper who buys more than he earns every week, the nation's credit card bill is compounding. Just paying the interest now costs more than every other government program except Social Security.

Staff at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium have reared a special kind of fish known as a warty frogfish for the first time in captivity. Their success may hold broader lessons for raising marine species.

The White House has depicted the war in Iran online with videos that weave real life images of missile strikes and destruction with clips from video games, sports clips, and action movies.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding.

When Maddie Christine Brokop learned she was dying, she invited her friends to help weave the tray she will be buried in.

As the war with Iran enters its second month, the U.S. has determined with certainty that about one third of Iran's missile arsenal has been destroyed.

Protests against the Trump administration are planned to take place around the country today. Organizers say there may be more than 3,000 rallies across 50 states.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele talk men and women's March madness.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Sina Toossi, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, about the power structure in Iran, and how things have changed within it since the start of the war.

The UK Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all elderly white men. A new law now phases them out, for the 1st time in nearly 1,000 years.

Residents in and around Washington braced themselves for damaging storms earlier this week, but turns out it was a forecast flop. One local meteorologist apologized.

The Pentagon is sending two Marine units to the Middle East despite President Trump's denials that he will call for ground troops to fight in Iran.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ariane Tabatabai, the Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, about the nature of Iran's nuclear program, and whether it, as President Trump has said, posed an "imminent threat."

After RFK Jr. began overhauling the CDC, Colorado has taken vaccine policy into its own hands. It's going to follow the scientific recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

President Trumps looks to allies for help with the war in Iran, then says the U.S. doesn't need it. The Pentagon requests 200 billion dollars in additional funding. The Senate debates the SAVE Act.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to World Refugee & Migration Council Chair Ninette Kelley about the condition of people displaced by war in Iran and the impact on countries in the region.

Scott Simon and former director Deborah Rutter look out over a soon-to-be shuttered Kennedy Center.

Heavy airstrikes overnight in Tehran as President Trump says he's considering winding down military operations.

Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli raid in south Lebanon looking for an Israeli airman captured 40 years ago

In South Carolina, some parents embrace vaccines, others opt out. Why do people make such different choices? A mix of politics, distrust and misinformation is pushing neighbors apart.