Weekend Edition Saturday

We look at the resignation of the Director of National Security, Tulsi Gabbard, and the pushback to President Trump's $1.8 billion fund that could be used to compensate those who attacked the Capitol

In some workplace training videos, actors are being replaced by AI. NPR's Scott Simon talks to actor Paul Clayton, who has appeared in more than 1,000 corporate acting roles.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with David Haig, who co-wrote the screenplay of the new movie "Pressure." It's based on Haig's play about the meteorologist tasked with predicting the weather on D-Day.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards of the grunge-rock group Failure about their new album "Location Lost" and the influence of space-related themes on their music.

Sherill Baldwin can often be found at an overgrown cemetery in Connecticut. She found it by chance, but now she's part of a movement of "cemetery citizens"--providing some TLC to forgotten plots.

NPR's Scott Simon asks astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his latest book, "Take Me to Your Leader."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with sports writer Joe Posnanski and television writer Michael Schur about their new book, "Big Fan," detailing the culture of sports fandom.

Protests break out in Cuba over power shortages as the U.S. offers millions of dollars in exchange for political reform.

With the peace process stalled, there are signs of growing public fatigue in Russia with the Kremlin's war as Ukraine uses robotic warfare to stay in the fight.

After months in dry dock in Maine, the USS Niagara slipped down the ways last week after nearly a year of work. The two-masted, 20-gun brig will soon return to its home port on Lake Erie.