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With his election victory, Donald Trump will be able to make at least two of his criminal prosecutions go away by Inauguration Day -- if not before.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with University of St. Thomas law professor Mark Osler about the House Oversight Committee's call for an investigation into President Biden's executive actions signed by autopen.

NPR's A Martinez talks to NYU law professor Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel and President Biden's personal attorney, who's part of a group calling on Congress to reform the Insurrection Act.

Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction.

The World Series is underway and so is major league soccer. And The Big 10 becomes the latest major college football league to resume play during the pandemic.

As a powerful Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary in the Indian city of Nagpur, across town, hundreds renounced their Hindu faith and converted to Buddhism.

The gun control debate continued to dominate the news this week with President Obama coming out strongly in support of reforming the current gun control laws alongside the Newtown families. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic, about that story along with the bird flu in China, North Korea and the Postal Service.

Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with Errol Louis, host of NY1's Inside City Hall, about the latest in the New York City mayoral race bribe scheme. A Democratic New York state senator is charged with trying to buy a spot on the Republican ticket.

The $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will cover one year of addiction treatment and prevention the judge says. But health economists predict it will take decades to abate the problem.

The Pentagon announced it will cut its budget by some $50 billion each year for the next five years. But questions remain about where those tens of billions of dollars in savings will come from.