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NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Margaret Pendergast from East Sandwich, Mass. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR in Boston.)

Plus, Tesla's next move, Taylor's new record and why zoo animals (sometimes) get weird during eclipses.

Beth Hundsdorfer joined the Capitol News Illinois team as a full-time reporter in November 2021.

Leslie Cook is a senior business editor on NPR's Business Desk. In this role, he assigns and edits NPR business reporters and collaborates with show producers and editors on host interviews.

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Asian Americans speak about their anger over the shootings in the Atlanta area that left six women of Asian descent dead.

Kurt Kinley, 20, of Normal, went viral over the Fourth of July weekend with a video on Twitter showing him excitedly opening up his admission letter from Heartland Community College.

More than 100,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Louisiana more than two weeks after Hurricane Ida. It's been tough for people trying to get by in the hot and humid weather.

Families with loved ones in congregate care facilities are hoping to spend the holidays together, but many facilities face continuing lockdowns for a variety of unique reasons.

A 75-year-old woman who mentored hundreds of students of color at the University of Oregon has received a gift from some of them: the down payment on her first home.