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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Brian Dunworth plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Lulu Garcia-Navarro. -
U.S. pleasure boats have been sneaking into Canada despite a border shutdown. A group of Canadian retirees is on the lookout for violators from the "petri dish" that is America.
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Thousands have opened their mail to find packets of seeds. Is it a scam? Is it an alien plot? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Darci Portie of Iowa, La., who received the mystery seeds.
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One of the smallest tribes in the U.S. has been given some of its land back. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Tom Little Bear Nason of the Esselen Tribe in California.
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Farmworkers in Washington state have gone to court to demand overtime pay. Coronavirus outbreaks in agricultural communities have focused new attention on working conditions and pay on farms.
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A Yazidi woman struggles with the trauma of the ISIS genocide that devastated her people and her life six years ago this week.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Adria Renee Gonzales about the mass shooting in El Paso one year ago Monday, where 23 people were killed.
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A retiring incumbent with no clear replacement, a pandemic and a president who's slipping in the polls creates a rare opportunity for Democrats – and trouble for Republicans.
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The House has passed a bill with bipartisan support to create a new Smithsonian museum dedicated to American Latinos. If signed into law, that museum still has a long way to go to become reality.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to actor Louis Gossett, Jr. and director Sergio Navarretta about their movie, The Cuban, in which an Afghan refugee helps a Cuban musician with Alzheimer's.
