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for national security posts during his second term. They are... Madeleine Albright to be Secretary of State... William Cohen to be Defense Secretary... Anthony Lake to be CIA Director... and Samuel Berger to be National Security Adviser.

The United Nations says Kabila and Mobutu have agreed in principle to meet and discuss transitional arrangements. Mandela is very interested in having for the talks to take place in South Africa. No pre-conditions for the talks have been set, but no one is expecting rebels to lessen their demands. The BBC's William Wallis reports.

NPR's Martha Raddatz interviews Defense Secretary William Perry who says the the Saudi government is close to completing its investigation of the June bombing of U-S military headquaters there. Perry says he anticipates an announcement that there was an international connection to the bombing. Perry says if there is compelling evidence of international sponorship for that bombing, the U-S will respond with strong action.

Robert talks with William Quandt, a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia about the role of the United States in the talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and how that role has changed over the years. Quandt is a former member of the National Security Council and was a participant in the Camp David Accords.

Noah talks with NPR's Anthony Brooks who is at the campaign headquarters for Vice President Al Gore in Nashville, Tennessee. Campaign Chairman William Daley today said that judges in Florida may find irregularities in the results that represent -- quoting here -- an "injustice unparalleled in our history."

Tonight's debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards has taken on heightened interest now that polls show the race has tightened. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Juan Williams

Groups of voters living in states that pollsters consider to be already decided in the presidential race are traveling to battleground states where they can have more of an impact. Hear NPR's Juan Williams.

Award-winning filmmaker William Greaves talks with NPR's Tony Cox about the revival of his film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm in it's new form, Take 2 1/2. The ever-evolving film, began in 1968, follows the lives of a couple with a troubled marriage. The movie is screening at the Sundance Film Festival.

Rock critic Ken Tucker continues his look at the latest in pop rock. He reviews the CD Red Head by the Boston-based musician known as Bleu (his real name is William McAuley).

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports the Senate Judiciary Committee has completed its hearing of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the Federal Appeals Court in Atlanta. His nomination has been controversial, but the Republican-controlled committee is likely to approve Pryor's appointment.

The National Security Agency has issued a set of print advertisements that call to mind the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" messages of World War II. On Weekend Edition Saturday, author and curator William Bird critiques the ads and compares them with the posters of that bygone era.

Slate contributor Ben Williams summarizes what film critics are saying about this weekend's new major U.S. film releases. Up this week: King Arthur, Sleepover and Anchorman.

NPR's Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Juan Williams about the evolution -- and the changing names -- of each cycle's target swing voters: Reagan Democrats, soccer moms, NASCAR dads, and security moms.

Why can't Los Angeles get a solid handle on its gang problem? Chief William Bratton discusses how L.A.'s police are dealing with the latest wave of gang violence there.

A new analysis of 2010 census data by the Williams Institute shows how same-sex couples are distributed across the nation. Liberal enclaves are well-represented, of course. But so are some surprising pockets of the heartland and the South.

Inspired by his son, Brent, who has Williams syndrome, Dick Sesler founded the Camp Blue Skies Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2009. Camp Blue Skies provides 5-day, 4-night camps for adults ages 21 and up with developmental disabilities including Down syndrome and mild to moderate Autism. Services and support for persons with intellectual disabilities drop off dramatically when they reach the age of 21. Blue Skies campers can challenge themselves in a safe environment to enhance their interests and abilities while developing social skills, confidence and independence. Parents and caregivers earn a well-deserved respite while their campers attend Camp Blue Skies.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, "Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality," was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. Among others, Barb has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association Award for radio reporting.

Walter Ray Watson is a senior producer for NPR News.

The number of homicides has gone up recently in Charlotte. Since the early 1990s, one woman set out to help bring peace to the families of the victims. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his weekly commentary, talks about what she meant to the city.

Poets Ciona Rouse, Caroline Randall Williams and Adia Victoria are the Blair House Collective. These poems honor two of the "living, breathing, earthbound women" who inspire the Collective's work.