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NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Brian Vines, a reporter for Consumer Reports, about the current popularity in dollar stores and why it has some communities worried.

North Carolina is a swing state with a Senate seat coming open. On the Republican side, the former president made an early endorsement, seeming to set the positioning for the GOP hopefuls.

The U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs visited a Los Angeles encampment to discuss veteran homelessness and plans for new affordable housing.

President Biden's pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, told senators that he would seek to balance border security with humane treatment of migrants.

David Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller and a chief architect of the family's philanthropic efforts, has published his memoirs at age 87. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

A land mine explodes under a bus in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at least 12 people, including six Indian soldiers. Two dozen are injured, many critically, and the death toll is likely to rise. Islamic militants are suspected in the attack. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

President Bush, visiting Eastern Europe to welcome seven new members of NATO, stops in Romania for a speech at Bucharest's Revolution Square. Hear more from NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Californians Jim McKenna and John Lieberman are collecting those ubiquitous AOL promotional CDs with the intent of dumping one million of them on the Internet giant's doorstep. They're fed up with the promotional blitz. McKenna speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Playwright Tom Stoppard has a new work on stage in London. The author of Rosencrantz and Guildensten are Dead and many others, turns out a nine-hour dramatic trilogy about the Russian intelligentsia. It's called The Coast of Utopia. Fred Mogul of member station WNYC reports.

Jackson, Miss., is a city with two identities. There's the part which is more than 80% Black, led by a mayor who wants to make it "the most radical city on the planet." Then there's the state capital.

Butterball CEO Bob Wright talks turkey about a business that does roughly half its yearly business during the holiday season. Wright says his company -- a division of ConAgra Foods -- is about to trot out a variety of new turkey products. Wright's interview is from The Motley Fool Radio Show.

Sunday means football. Scott Simon and Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport discuss the Packers-Buccaneers contest, the NFL's blind eye to quarterback talent, and Steve Spurrier's comeuppance.