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The jazz pianist and longtime host of NPR's Piano Jazz tells her story in a new documentary full of archival footage, family photos and interviews.

When you talk about the federal budget, you have to talk about health care and Medicare and social security. All three topics are tied to Rep. Paul Ryan, who has spent recent years advancing bold and controversial proposals to deal with them. Weekend Edition Saturday guest host Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Julie Rovner about what the Ryan budget would do.

Protests at Canadian seafood processing plants stymie Maine lobster trappers, and after a summer seafood supply glut, an escalating price war is preventing trappers from getting their goods to market.

"I'm glad I didn't let them all down," says U.S. cyclist Georgia Gould, of her fans in the U.S., after winning bronze in the women's mountain bike cross-country race.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney discarded his increasingly inert better-safe-than-sorry campaign strategy Saturday when he named budget hawk and Democratic bete noire Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate. But the pick has handed Democrats a trove of material to use in an effort to weaken the GOP ticket's appeal among independent voters, women and senior citizens.

An online experiment at WBUR in Boston, celebrates the effect random acts kindness can have on others.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkey's foreign minister announce the creation of a working group to deal with the collapse of Syria, and the potential of a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government.

The saxophonist also outlined the failings of modern jazz and his hopes for the next generation.

Guest host Linda Wertheimer discusses Mitt Romney's selection for vice president with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and contributing editor for the Weekly Standard Matthew Continetti.

After years of emotional wrangling, court battles and even bomb threats, a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee opened on Friday. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN was at the mosque's first service.