Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel in New York on March 7, 2006. Jim Cooper/AP hide caption
Simon Says "Weekend Edition Saturday" host Scott Simon shares his perspective on news and events both large and small.
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Scott Simon's family at the Normandy cemetery. Scott Simon hide caption
Opinion: Remembering the fallen heroes of Normandy's sacred bluffs
North Korean defectors living in South Korea release balloons carrying propaganda leaflets denouncing North Korea's nuclear test at Imjingak, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Feb. 16, 2013, in Paju, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's trash and tunes in the air
U.S. gangster Al Capone has his photo taken while in custody in Philadelphia, May 18, 1929. -/AP hide caption
People in both New York and Dublin, Ireland, wave and signal at each other while looking at a livestream view of one another as part of an art installation on the street in New York, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Demonstrators hold up lights from their phones during a rally organized by Hong Kong mothers in support of extradition law protesters, in Hong Kong on July 5, 2019. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People visit exhibits inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins, Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Scott Simon's daughter Elise and his wife, Caroline, on Elise's first birthday. Scott Simon hide caption
New York Yankees radio broadcaster John Sterling speaks during the teams 63rd Old Timers Day before the game against the Detroit Tigers on July 19, 2009, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. Jim McIsaac/Getty Images hide caption
Preview visitors attend the Neo Rauch exhibition "Begleiter" at Pinakothek der Moderne art museum in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 2010. Johannes Simon/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Open Wall nights could lead to the next artistic visionary
A person holds signs from the sunroof of a vehicle during a campaign event for Joe Biden. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
US President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One at Minneapolis-Sait Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 1, 2022. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Judge Alla Nazarova attends a hearing in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Nov. 25, 2021. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP hide caption
Opinion: Russian Jehovah's Witnesses remain devout despite facing bans
A bowl of stickers is set out for voter March 15, 2020, in Steubenville, Ohio Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press hide caption
Scott Simon has a new, foster cat in addition to a dog and hamster. Scott Simon hide caption
Opinion: Animals have overtaken our lives, and we're having a wonderful time
Anastasios Adamopoulos was driving a city bus early Monday morning in Chicago when he saw homes on fire. He stopped to help. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
A general view of a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 24, 2004, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland Ronald Martinez/Getty Images hide caption
Former Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell made headlines for the $800,000 in cash stuffed in shoeboxes found when he died. For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry. AP hide caption
Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow. Gavril Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his wife and two children. Getty Images hide caption
Scott Simon gets fitted for his first pair of hearing aids. Caroline Simon hide caption
An aerial view of Chicago. In the past few days, at least six high school students in the city have been shot outside their schools. AP hide caption
Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," posed for a portrait on the set in 1999. Osgood, who anchored the popular news magazine's for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program "The Osgood File" and was referred to as CBS News' poet-in-residence, has died. Suzanne Plunkett/AP hide caption
Comedian George Carlin appears at a news conference in 1978. Robbins/AP hide caption