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Join the Women’s Chorus of Charlotte for Spirit Voices, a transcendent journey through sound, celebrating the depth and beauty of the human spirit. This concert offers a powerful exploration of spirituality through a lens of diverse traditions and expressions, featuring works such as Dan Forrest’s monumental Ubi Caritas, Matt and Adam Podd’s stunning setting of How Can I Keep from Singing, and Jim Papoulis’ breath-taking Sih'r Kalaq (Creative Magic). Prepare to be inspired!

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Joan Konsavage from Burkesville, Ky. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WKYU at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.)

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Christensen, Washington orrespondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, about Newt Gingrich's igh-profile rise to the position of Speaker of the House. They also discuss the n-going controversy between the National Park Service and the family of Dr. artin Luther King over who will control a visitor's center which is being built cross the street from Atlanta's King Center For Social Change. (Today would ave been the 66th birthday of Dr. King.)

Clifford's new book is The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy. The lost fleet was a group of French ships that sank in 1678 on the reef of Las Aves island, 100 miles off the Venezuelan coast.

Mecklenburg County Health Director Raynard Washington joins the program to discuss his masking decision, and we explore what has been described as confusing CDC guidance on COVID-19.

Brandon Carter is an assistant producer on NPR's Washington Desk. He manages the NPR Politics social media accounts, writes and produces stories for the web and writes for the NPR Politics weekly newsletter.

Chris McDaniel started at St. Louis Public Radio as a political reporter, predominantly covering the race between Senator Claire McCaskill and Congressman Todd Akin. Before coming to St. Louis, Chris worked at NPR stations in Louisville, Kentucky and Columbia, Missouri, and his work has been broadcast on NPR’s national newscasts. He is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri, where he studied journalism and political science. He is also the winner of the 2011 PAX East Super Smash Bros. Tournament. Chris enjoys dogs, anything by Cormac McCarthy, and listeners like you.

It’s the highest rate of overdose calls so far this year in a state that has one of the highest overdose death rates in the country.

Critic Milo Miles says that in this new collection of music from between the world wars, "the currents of long-ago lives come through: the drudgery of the work that demanded the release of the party, which then required the penance of prayer."

Medina Spirit, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has failed a drug test. It's the latest drug test failure for trainer Bob Baffert's horses. He denies any wrongdoing.

The FBI revealed Sunday that Rep. William Jefferson, under investigation for bribery, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.

The attack in the city of Dadeville came as people were gathering to celebrate a 16th birthday. Authorities have offered little information about a suspect, about the victims and about what happened.

The Southern Baptist Convention upheld the removal of two churches for having women as pastors. The nearly 13,000 voters, called "messengers," voted overwhelmingly to uphold the churches' removals.

On Wednesday, the City of Brotherly Love takes down a memorial to a former mayor and police commissioner who exploited its divisions.

The protesters were starting to disband near the Colorado state Capitol. Some of them blocked the vehicle before it abruptly sped away.

The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal each win two Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. Steve Coll wins the non-fiction prize for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden.

The alleged followers of the extremist movement are accused of conspiring to destroy messages and other records relating to the fatal shootings of two Bay Area law enforcement officers last year.

Behind the scenes, Breyer, 83, pushed and prodded his fellow justices for consensus. His decision gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court.

Reporter Nigel Jaquiss is among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners. Jaquiss, of Willamette Week of Portland, Ore., won for his investigative reporting on a 30-year state secret: The story of former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.

Rich Strike emerged victorious among the 20 horses that competed in what is often described as "the most exciting two minutes in sports."