Weekend Edition Saturday

The Oscar-winning animated movie "Flow," which stars a black kitty, may be causing an increase in black cat adoptions. Superstitions about bad luck have often caused these felines to be overlooked.

There's probably not many 81-year-olds with new jobs this spring, but the new Chicago Cubs coach isn't typical. NPR's Scott Simon talks to coach Jerry Weinstein.

A visit to the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho. It started as a springboard to catch artists wrapping up at South by Southwest in Austin, but is becoming a national fixture itself. [Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of Treefort Music Fest as Treefort Music Festival.]

In the new romantic comedy, "A Nice Indian Boy," a son brings home his new boyfriend to meet his Indian parents. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer-director Roshan Sethi.

It was an eventful week in politics, one that was dominated by the fallout from a security breach involving a commercial messaging app and the announcement of steep tariffs on imported cars.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.

The Women's National Football Conference kicks off its sixth season this weekend. The Jersey Shore Wave is one of the new teams joining the league this year.

President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.

Public health officials are concerned about increasing polarization among Americans over vaccines.

Why the Chinese government is angry over a deal involving a prominent Hong Kong billionaire's business empire and the Panama Canal.