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Listener Dan Hyman plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Elissa Nadworny.

Bill Holcomb plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a two-week challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Dr. Laurie Abbott from Las Cruces, N.M. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KRWG in Las Cruces.)

The governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province survived a car bomb attack Sunday. Three people in the governor's convoy were killed. Also Sunday, the new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan said that he plans to double the number of coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, in response to increased violence in the area.

Among the thousands of funded goals included in $286.4 billion transportation bill signed by President Bush are projects that range from being simply historical to ones that aim to solve long-standing traffic snarls. From an Erie Canal museum to bridges and highways, the money is on the way.

Ivanka Trump reacted to then-Attorney General William Barr saying that the 2020 election was not stolen.

Listener Harriet Bicksler of Mechanicsburg, Penn., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Shannon Bond.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with winner Kel Hanlon of Jessup, Maryland and puzzle master Will Shortz.

LA took the best-of-seven series four games to one and will play the winner of the American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros.