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Senate Democrats plow ahead with a showdown over the filibuster and voting rights. Details emerge about the hostage taking at a Texas synagogue. Efforts continue to revive the Iran nuclear deal.

Medical schools across the country are reporting a record increase in first-year Black students. (This report originally aired Jan. 15, 2022 on Weekend Edition Saturday.)

Communities across the West Coast woke up Saturday morning to tsunami advisory alerts. An underwater volcano near the Kingdom of Tonga had erupted and sent waves thousands of miles across the ocean.Waves of up to about three feet reached parts of Alaska by Saturday morning. But hours before those waves arrived, sounds from the blast reached the homes of many Alaskans — all the way from Juneau to the Aleutians.

Communications were still down across most of the Pacific Island nation of Tonga after a massive undersea volcano erupted over the weekend, making damage assessments difficult.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to ESPN's Jeremy Schaap about the moral and financial dilemmas surrounding professional athletes and vaccines.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to political strategist Matt Bennett on President Biden's messaging challenges, and what's needed to advance the White House agenda.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins about the issues facing the Internal Revenue Service — including a potential crisis this year.

A former soldier in Tacoma, Wash., is helping resettle Afghan refugees after the fall of Kabul. One now lives nearby, and together they're working to get others out of Afghanistan.

Listener Gradie Cartlidge plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer.

We take a look at President Biden's tough week, after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to his mask-or-test mandate for large employers and his attempt to reform the the filibuster died in the Senate.