Weekend Edition

This week, Times Square got its very first public fountain. Fashioned by Pamela Council, "A Fountain for Survivors" is 18 feet tall and encased with some 400,000 colorful acrylic fingernails.

Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.

An appreciation of NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who's leaving the network after 17 years.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Jim Head, Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences at Brown University, about China's new space station and the country's rapidly advancing space program.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with artist Adrienne Benjamin about her new role as "reconciliation advisor" to Minnetonka Moccasins, following the company's apology for appropriating Native culture.

Following last week's elections, an Iraqi reformer finds himself in the parliament now - and talks about his plans to fight corruption and brave the dangers that brings.

For many Chinese Americans, dim sum isn't just a meal. It's a way to build community. The pandemic largely shut down that means of connecting, but dim sum restaurants are once again open to diners.

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks to Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, about a new DHS memo that aims to end workplace raids on immigrant workers.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro humorist and novelist Drew Magary about his new book, "The Night The Lights Went Out," about his harrowing recovery from a brain injury.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to climate scientist Antonio Nobre about how climate change is affecting the Amazon forest in Brazil.