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When Robert F. Kennedy learned of Martin Luther King's assassination in April of 1968, he gave an impromptu speech in Indiana. Decades later, it's credited with calming the devastated crowd.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who's on the Senate Armed Services Committee, how he and his colleagues want the president to respond to the Syrian chemical attack.

Over the weekend 15 members of a Canadian youth hockey team were killed in a bus collision in rural Saskatchewan. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Globe and Mail reporter Carrie Tait about how the community is coping.

The Denver Post editorial board is taking on the paper's hedge fund owner amid dozens of newsroom layoffs. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Chuck Plunkett, the paper's editorial page editor.

Critic Kevin Whitehead remembers the late musician, who was known for his animated piano recitals and group improvisations, and who sometimes used his forearm to play dense clusters on the keys.

President Trump floated the idea of re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Leaving the trade partnership was one of his campaign promises.

Five years after two explosions went off at the Boston Marathon, parents remember their son, Officer D.J. Simmonds, whose injuries suffered during a confrontation with the bombers led to his death.

On Friday, President Trump authorized airstrikes on Syrian targets to retaliate after an alleged chemical weapons attack by President Bashar Assad. Pentagon officials say the attacks were "precise" and "effective."

Weekend Edition's books editor, Barrie Hardymon, asks Madeline Miller about her latest book, Circe. It's a modern take on the mythological temptress.

Producer Jacob Plasse and vocalist José "Pepito" Gómez share how they recorded the band's debut in Havana's legendary Areito Studios and what their team-up symbolizes for Cuban-American relations.