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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anthony Lee is president of NTEU Chapter 282, the union representing close to 9,000 employees at the Food and Drug Administration.

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Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them

In 1978, Congress gave federal workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, finding it in the public interest. Now Trump wants to end those labor rights for most of the federal workforce.

May 11, 2025
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Sunday Puzzle: Initial fame

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Tom Rymsza of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

May 11, 2025
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A See's Candies worker restocks the display next to a cutout of Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting exhibit hall Friday, May 2, 2025 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)

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Warren Buffett announces his retirement and warns the trade war will hurt America

The billionaire investor, now 94, also said he would be resigning as CEO at the end of the year. He spoke at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting known as "Woodstock for Capitalists."

May 05, 2025
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Sunday Puzzle: Two plus five

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Michigan Public listener Michael Feiten of Highland, Mich., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

May 04, 2025
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols after officiating the solemn requiem at The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, informally known as Westminster Cathedral on April 21, 2025 in London, England.

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Cardinal Vincent Nichols expects a 'mood of reflection' at his first conclave

As he prepares to enter the seclusion of a conclave to elect a new pope, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, reflects on diversity and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

April 27, 2025
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Sunday Puzzle: Same beginnings

NPR's Lauren Frayer plays the puzzle with MPR listener, Dave Scheid of Rochester, Minn., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

April 27, 2025
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Kristin Kimball has grown her flock over the last decade from a dozen sheep to more than 250 animals. During lambing season, her day begins before dawn and ends long after dark, but she describes it as a joyous time.

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Into the barn: The joys of spring lambing season

Spring brings lambing season, a time of hard work and long hours for farmers. But it's also a time made joyful by cuddly newborns.

April 21, 2025
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David Cronenberg's grief is 'as powerful as it always was'

David Cronenberg's The Shrouds is a meditation on grief and obsession.

April 21, 2025
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