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NPR's Renee Montagne highlights moments from last night's Academy Awards ceremony. Gladiator won best picture, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won best foreign language film. (6:35) Check out the complete list of Oscar winners.

NPR's Van Williamson reports on the declining blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay. As this regional symbol grows scarce, Marylanders may have to change more than their eating habits. (6:52 -

On July 29, 1967, 134 U.S. sailors were killed aboard the USS Forrestal in Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. They fought a fire that threatened to destroy the ship and the 6,000 men aboard. On Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon talks to the author of a new book about the fire.

At Roosevelt High School in Seattle, teachers are using a new science curriculum called the Inquiry Method to teach biology. It's supposed to inspire curiosity -- sometimes at the expense of memorization of facts. NPR's Robert Smith is spending a whole year following the teachers and students at Roosevelt, and has this report. (6:15)

A giant, 6-ton potato is being rented on Airbnb in Idaho.

- The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will be performing an unscheduled space walk to work on the Hubble Space Telescope. Pat Duggins from member statiobn WMFE reports that seven years in orbit has left wear and tear on the 1.6 billion dollar observatory, including rips in its silvery metal skin.

Noah talks to Michael Glennon, Professor of Law at the University of California in Davis about the deadlines recounting presidential election ballots in Florida. Glennon says December 18th is the final deadline, not the 12th, or January 5th or 6th, as some other experts contend.

Harryhausen's trademark Dynamation method made possible a whole genre of science fiction and fantasy filmmaking. His films include The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. (Rebroadcast from Jan. 6, 2003.)

Former President Donald Trump faces criminal charges that he broke the law when he tried repeatedly to overturn results of the 2020 election — leading to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In a statement, United Auto Workers said 6,800 people had walked off their jobs at an assembly plant in Michigan on Monday morning.

Washington state is holding its primary races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor on Aug. 6 after having held its presidential primary on March 12.

The 6.4 magnitude temblor killed more than two dozen people and injured hundreds. Rescuers are racing to find survivors — and those who lived must now pick up the pieces of their former lives.

Williams was vying for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title, but fell to the 27 year old from Romania, 6-2, 6-2.

Two candidates are vying to be the next Miami-Dade County District 5 Commissioner. Former commissioner Bruno Barreiro resigned the seat in March to run…

Sales of existing homes fell 6.6% in February from the month before. Meanwhile, prices are up 16% over the past year, giving homeowners about $2 trillion more in equity and widening the wealth gap.

President Joe Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, tennis legend Billie Jean King and former President Bill Clinton were among those praising Coco Gauff with messages.

The Broward League of Women Voters is moderating a candidates forum involving five Broward County Court judicial races on Tuesday afternoon. It is the second of several candidate forums by the non-partisan League and will be livestreamed on this page from 6:30 p.m.

Broward County Council of PTA/PTSA say they are backing a federal lawsuit demanding the immediate release of about $6 billion in funding frozen by the U.S. Department of Education.

Charter Amendment 6 was supposed to ask whether Hollywood voters would get to decide on the sale or lease of some city-owned properties. But on the official ballot, it read completely differently.

A list of the groundbreaking musicians, producers and journalists we lost in 2021.