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Sunday Puzzle: A familiar word before H-O-T words

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUER listener Elisabeth Larsen and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 30, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Most fireworks sold in the U.S. are made in China, and they now face tariffs of at least 30%. Pictured are the Fourth of July fireworks in New York City in 2022.

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  • Economy

Looking forward to July 4 fireworks? Tariffs may take the spark out of your fun

Fans of fireworks may face higher prices this Fourth of July. That's because most fireworks are made in China and importers now have to pay tariffs of at least 30%.

June 29, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Matching pair of letters

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Travis DiNicola and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 22, 2025
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  • Will Shortz

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Name two, start with three

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Jerry Tsai and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 15, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
President John F. Kennedy on August 4, 1961 on his way to a weekend on Cape Cod. As president, Kennedy valued exercise, physical fitness and vaccines.

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RFK Jr. says Americans were healthier when his uncle was president. Is he right?

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

June 09, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Artist Alice Neal made this quilt, <em>Mary Bright Commemorative Quilt (with Dresden Plate, Monkey Wrench, Wild Goose Chase, Fan, Basket of Flowers, Star of Lemoyne, Nine Patch Blocks)</em>, in honor of her mother. It's a bequest of the Eli Leon Living Trust, BAMPFA.<br>

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  • Arts & Life

These fragile quilts by Black craftspeople need to be preserved — but the federal government has pulled the funds

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding earmarked to conserve them had been canceled.

June 08, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The National Guard, police and protesters stand off outside of a downtown jail in Los Angeles on Sunday following days of clashes with law enforcement over immigration raids.

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  • National

Protesters clash with law enforcement in Los Angeles as Trump sends National Guard

California National Guard members arrived in the Los Angeles area after President Trump activated the troops to curb protests against federal immigration raids. More protesters gathered on Sunday.

June 08, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Steve Futterman

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Phonetically 'Gay'

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KNRW listener Carina Aleckson of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 08, 2025
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  • Will Shortz

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Sunday Puzzle: Hidden Capitals

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Clive Jerram of Rockville, Md., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

June 02, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Stuart and Jackie Pacheo stand where the entryway to their home of 30 years was before the floods from Hurricane Helene washed it away. The circles of the tops of foundation pillars in the dirt behind them are all that remain of the Pacheo home.

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North Carolina had a housing crisis before Hurricane Helene; now it's even worse

Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy flooding. That's what Hurricane Helene did to western North Carolina last year.

June 01, 2025
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  • Greg Allen and
  • Marisa Peñaloza

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  • Author Interviews

In 'Words with Wings and Magic Things,' poetry is beautifully illustrated — and fun!

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

May 25, 2025
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  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: Supermarket Brands

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Maureen Perrotte of Ravena, New York and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

May 25, 2025
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  • Will Shortz

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  • Book News & Features

Kids notice everything — here's what one child sees 'Next to Me'

When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together.

May 18, 2025
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  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: That's HANDY

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WSKG listener Cindy Mosqueda, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

May 18, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Israeli soldiers move tanks around staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, May 18, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel holds ceasefire talks with Hamas, as new ground operation in Gaza begins

Israel and Hamas have entered the most substantive negotiations in months in Qatar. The talks come amid intense Israeli airstrikes that have killed more than 500 Palestinians in the past five days.

May 18, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
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