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Sunday Puzzle: Compound word sets

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Seth Bowling of Long Beach, Calif., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

February 24, 2025
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A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (

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Huge crowds gather in Lebanon for funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

February 23, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
Palestinian families react after Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners, scheduled to be released in the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah early on February 23, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank

February 23, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Arts & Life

January 6th ... the board game?

Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

February 16, 2025
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
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Sunday Puzzle: P.E. Class

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Michelle San Antonio of North Creek, NY.

February 16, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing in August 2024. The mission will make the first all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared, helping to answer some of the biggest questions in astrophysics.

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Searching the entire sky for the secrets to our universe

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic molecules.

February 09, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
Sunday Puzzle

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Sunday Puzzle: Grocery Brand Names

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUSF listener Wendy Belkin of Clearwater, Fla.

February 09, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
DeAndre Hopkins of the Kansas City Chiefs arrives in New Orleans last weekend.

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This Kansas City Chiefs player's Super Bowl outfit carries special meaning

Many of the players in Sunday's Super Bowl will arrive at the stadium dressed to the nines. But one — Kansas City wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins — will be wearing something extra special.

February 09, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
Sunday Puzzle

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Sunday Puzzle: Hidden human body sentences

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Lauren Cusitello of San Diego, Cali.

February 02, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
<em>Author Kate Winkler Dawson, at the former site of the Durfee Farm in Fall River, Mass.</em>

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A minister was acquitted of a brutal 1832 murder. A new book revisits the case

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.

January 26, 2025
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  • Melissa Gray
Sunday Puzzle

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Sunday Puzzle: Doubling up

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Marian Fowler of Indian Purchase Township, Maine.

January 26, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Less than a day from when the popular social media app is set to be banned in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying the expulsion of TikTok.

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  • Business

TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

January 19, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Sunday Puzzle

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Sunday Puzzle: Name game with initials

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and Susie Woodward of Sherwood, Ore.

January 19, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
Members of the Republican caucus stood on the House floor on the final day of the 2024 legislative session in Minnesota. The Legislature ran right up to its midnight deadline on May 19, with a shouting fest.

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  • National

In a bitter fight for the Minnesota Legislature, Democrats have threatened a walkout

A series of unexpected events after the narrow election has set up a power struggle in the Minnesota Legislature. Days before the legislative session kicks off, it's unclear who will take control.

January 13, 2025
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  • Dana Ferguson
Water is dropped on the Palisades Fire by helicopter in Mandeville Canyon on Saturday in Los Angeles.

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  • National

FEMA's administrator says more than 24,000 in LA have applied for assistance

"People have lost everything," says FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. More than 24,000 have already applied for assistance from FEMA, but Criswell says that number is certain to rise.

January 12, 2025
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  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Rebecca Rosman
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