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With new elections for Prime Minister of Israel scheduled for Tuesday, opinion polls strongly suggest that Likud Party candidate Ariel Sharon could win and displace Labor Party candidate and current Prime Minister Ehud Barak. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

The mauling death of a 33-year-old woman in San Francisco by a 120-pound dog has raised many questions about the owners -- two prison inmates with alleged ties to a white supremacist group, and an illegal dog breeding scheme. Jay Field reports from San Francisco.

Weekend All Things Considered begins a new monthly feature. It's called Along For The Ride. Each month, we invite a creative person to act as a guest reporter and share with us a special point of interest to him or her. Today, writer Amy Wilensky, takes us to the cheese department at Fairway, a New York City grocery, where cheese guru Steven Jenkins has a passion, if not an obsession for cheese!

Writer Paul Auster reads a true story submitted by Edith S. Marks. Today's installment is called New York Stray.

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.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's recent efforts at bipartisanship and the outlook for the president's legislation on tax and social policy.

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.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

A Senate banking committee claims U.S. banks are giving the green light to money laundering by failing toclosely monitor their relationships with overseas financial institutions. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Light of the Brookings Institution about his new report on the greatest achievements of the federal government in the past 50 years.