Weekend Edition Sunday

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Anna Eisen, one of the founding members of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, about what the community experienced during the hostage situation.

We'll have the latest from the hostage situation which developed overnight at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Lauren Whitehurst, a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in sleep, about who in our society doesn't get enough sleep and why that's a problem.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to Texas musician Jana Horn about her debut folk album, "Optimism."

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with U.S. Fire Administrator Lori Moore-Merrell about this month's fatal fires in New York and Philadelphia, and about safety issues in apartment buildings nationwide.

We take a look at President Biden's tough week, after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to his mask-or-test mandate for large employers and his attempt to reform the the filibuster died in the Senate.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School, about the future of the U.S. military court and prison at Guantanamo Bay.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Alex Mumford, who moved to the Isle of Rum in the Scottish Hebrides as a part of the island chain's efforts to boost its population.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to correspondent, Eleanor Beardsley, who has been traveling around Ukraine.

An underwater volcano erupted Saturday near Tonga, sending tsunamis across the pacific basin.

Blood supplies are low at hospitals across the country, and the American Red Cross hopes people will continue to donate blood in order to bolster supplies.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to Duke University Hospital emergency physician Dr. Daniel Buckland about the state of his hospital as the Omicron variant surges.