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On his latest installment of Director's Cuts, Ned Wharton, music director of Weekend Edition Sunday, invites us to listen to bluegrass cuts. The featured artists are Phillips, Grier and Flinner — who cover such artists as The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix — and Nickel Creek, a group of 20-somethings who've played together since childhood.

As people stay in the work force longer, some can look for inspiration to Martha Smith of Vineland , Kan., who has held the same job at the Coal Creek Library for most of the past 76 years. Frank Morris from member station KCUR reports.

Thursday marks 50 years since a flood killed 238 people in Rapid City, South Dakota. Survivors say it's important to tell their stories, so future generations don't repeat deadly mistakes of the past.

The student-led occupation of a Columbia University building ends. Secretary of State Blinken is in Israel with a focus on humanitarian aid to Gaza. Florida's new abortion law takes effect Wednesday.

A steady stream of officers entered through a second story window using an NYPD armored vehicle with a mechanized drawbridge.

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

There are fewer tents on San Francisco sidewalks. The city has ramped up enforcement of anti-camping laws, and police are playing a bigger role.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Catherine Crosland, who works directly with people experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C., following President Trump's law enforcement actions in the capital.

Yale University, Emerson College and New York University are among the few schools where students are staging encampments calling for divestment from Israel.

The Smokehouse Creek fire tore through the Texas Panhandle early last year, burning over a million acres in just weeks. In the small town of Canadian, where the devastation was severe, residents say the heartbreak lingers and a full recovery could take years.