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Opinion: Art fair flyers should showcase human creativity

Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

April 05, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
Players for the Jersey Shore Wave inside Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey where the team will play its home games this season.

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Jersey Shore Wave to kick off season as one of the newest teams in women's football

The Women's National Football Conference kicks off its sixth season this weekend. The Jersey Shore Wave is one of the new teams joining the league this year.

March 29, 2025
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  • Buffy Gorrilla
Sarah Oliver, Executive Producer of<em> Weekend Edition </em>

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  • Opinion

Opinion: A Toast to Sarah Lucy Oliver

NPR's Scott Simon celebrates Weekend Edition's Executive Producer, Sarah Lucy Oliver, who is retiring.

March 29, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
A Goodyear Blimp, circa 1960. The airships have acted as massive, floating billboards for Goodyear tires since 1925.

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Look up! The Goodyear Blimp is celebrating a big birthday

We head up into the skies over Los Angeles in honor of the Goodyear Blimp's 100th. Come join us ... there's room for eight.

March 15, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The Monopoly board game.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Monopoly money is going digital

There's an app for that! NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the news that the classic board game Monopoly will soon come with a banking app — no more paper money, math, or banking duties required.

March 15, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has provided relief for hundreds of thousands of borrowers.

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  • Education

Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program

The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for certain organizations.

March 08, 2025
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  • Jonaki Mehta
Coffee shop menu in Toronto displaying Canadiano as an option.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Don't call this coffee an Americano!

Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee drinks "Canadianos." NPR's Scott Simon explains.

March 08, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
Maestra Marin Alsop conducts the National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Julia Wolfe's <em>Her Story</em> on Feb. 27.

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  • Music

Conductor Marin Alsop on Trump, the Kennedy Center and why art is bipartisan

The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently.

March 04, 2025
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  • Scott Simon and
  • Michael Radcliffe
Gene Hackman as coach Norman Dale on the set of 1986's <em>Hoosiers</em>.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering Gene Hackman

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Gene Hackman, who played everymen, cops and villains over his long movie career. The 95 year old actor and his wife were found dead this week in their New Mexico home.

March 01, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
"Bambi" is as Anxious as anything the band has ever done.

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  • Music

Dear listeners: "Bambi" is whatever the band Anxious says it is

We hear from musicians Grady Allen and Dante Melucci from the band Anxious, about their second album "Bambi." The young hardcore act says it's their most authentic outing yet.

February 22, 2025
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  • Ryan Benk
Daniel Craig, who played James Bond in five films, at the Germany premiere of Spectre in 2015. <em>(Michael Sohn/AP)</em>

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Amazon to deliver a new James Bond

Amazon has acquired the creative license to the long-running James Bond franchise. But how do they plan to deliver?

February 22, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
Ed Martin (left), then the president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, and Jeffrey Clark, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, speak during a January 6th field hearing at the U.S. Capitol on June 13, 2023.

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  • Law

Top federal prosecutor in Washington previously defended Jan. 6 rioters

Ed Martin advanced bogus claims about election fraud in swing states in 2020, and he spoke at a boisterous rally in Washington the day before the siege on the Capitol.

February 16, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sweeping authority over the country's immunization policies. During confirmation hearings, he clashed with Senate Democrats over his stance on vaccines.

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  • Health

How changes to a CDC vaccine panel under Kennedy could reshape policy

A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is critical in setting national vaccine policy. It's also vulnerable to political interference.

February 16, 2025
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  • Pien Huang
President Donald Trump signs an executive order withholding federal funding from schools and universities that impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the Oval Office on Feb. 14, 2025. Many of Trump's executive actions are facing legal challenges in the courts.

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  • Politics

Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy

Some legal scholars say that the administration is bungling the chance to expand presidential power.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during his trial at a Moscow courthouse on August 27, 2018.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Navalny's words of love

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

February 15, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
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