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Millions of music fans cheered Friday's appeals court ruling that lets the internet music company Napster stay in business at least temporarily. Napster was slated to shut down most of its Web service at midnight Friday. Jacki talks to NPR's Rick Karr about why Napster has been such a hot-button case for music fans and internet users, and why the move to shut it down may hurt the recording industry more than help it.

On Friday the Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court for its official thoughts about pot. Two weeks ago a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there can be legitimate medical reasons to make the drug available legally. Now the Justice Department's action could set the stage for new rules about marijuana. Kai Ryssdal reports from San Francisco.

A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that a significant number of voters who say they will vote for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore also say they might change their minds. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the surprising Chicago White Sox baseball team: surprising that they're playing so well, and because very few people in Chicago seem to care.

Scott speaks with Kitty Harmon about a new book she has edited called, Up to No Good, the Rascally Things Boys Do, as Told by Perfectly Decent Grown Men.

Scott Simon talks to Georgetown professor of biology Martha Weiss about the amazing frass flinging (caterpillar feces) abilities of the silver spotted skipper caterpiller.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to NPR's Peter Kenyon in Philadelphia, where Republicans are finalizing the 2000 GOP Platform. Except for the controversy over abortion, this year's platform has been softened and toned down from the party's statements in 1996. It reflects the tight hold the George W. Bush campaign has had over this year's convention.

Scott with some thoughts about when the public sector gets taken over by the private sector.

NPR's Laura Sydell reports on the increasing conversion of Latinos from Christianity to Islam. The number of Latinos Muslims remains small but mark a significant change. Sydell attended a gathering in Stockton California of Latino Muslims and has this report.