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The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the third quarter as the delta variant and persistent supply chain woes weighed on growth. The months ahead should be better.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Linda Wertheimer about today's testimony in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to blow up the U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Joseph Kabila, the newly inaugurated President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kabila unexpectedly assumed the leadership of war-torn Congo last month when his father, Congolese President Laurent Kabila, was assassinated.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the California government's plans to work through the power crisis without relying on the federal government for emergency aid.

Janet Heimlich reports on a new bill being debated in the Texas Senate that would make it easier for prisoners to get DNA tests that could prove their innocence.

Weekend Edition commentator Al Lubrano goes in search of the elusive Ginger, America's next hi-tech mystery project, which has spurred much hot talk in cyberspace. Ginger is described as The Next Big Thing in the cyberworld, perhaps rivaling the PC and Internet -- but only her inventor knows for sure.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that four men go on trial today in New York for bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The men are suspected to be tied to a radical terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden.

On his first overseas trip as US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld spoke to many of his European counterparts yesterday at the annual Security Policy Conference in Munich, Germany. Rumsfeld outlined the Bush administration's policy, including support for a controversial missile defense system. NPR's Guy Raz reports from Munich.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jon Cohen, author of Shots In The Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, about efforts over the last decade to develop a vaccine to eradicate the spread of HIV and AIDS. Cohen's book details the different ways -- legal, political and financial -- in which the development of a vaccine is hindered or blocked.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; President George W. Bush and Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah) and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota); Peter Lowenstein, who lost his son in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and Scotland's chief prosecutor, Colin Boyd.