Weekend Edition Saturday

Members of the Trump administration speaking at the Munich Security Conference this weekend pressed Ukraine on concessions to end the war. We look at the view from Kyiv on their demands.

It has been a tumultuous week at the country's consumer finance watchdog, as the Trump administration looks to decimate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers have relied on for 70 years. It has triggered a Republican push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.

A British man who claims his $700 million worth of Bitcoin is buried in landfill in Wales now says he hopes to buy the site to search for his hard drive, which was dumped more than a decade ago.

We look at President Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and why House and Senate Republicans are charting different paths to passing Trump's budget.

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and Tehran.

Ed Martin advanced bogus claims about election fraud in swing states in 2020, and he spoke at a boisterous rally in Washington the day before the siege on the Capitol.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is critical in setting national vaccine policy. It's also vulnerable to political interference.

Some legal scholars say that the administration is bungling the chance to expand presidential power.