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NPR's Martin Kaste continues Morning Edition's week-long series on Latin American cities with a report on the perennial housing shortage in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Latin America's biggest megalopolis, as many as 3 million of the estimated 18 million residents cannot find or afford housing. So, they take over abandoned buildings and set up outdoor camps.

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the Sept. 11 panel, amid a highly politicized atmosphere fueled by allegations that the White House ignored the al Qaeda threat. White House officials are looking to Rice to vindicate their plans to address terrorism prior to the 2001 attacks. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and NPR's Larry Abramson.

The White House releases pay records and other information about President Bush's time in the National Guard. The White House said the new documents support the president's contention that he fulfilled his duty as a member of the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. Democratic presidential candidates had begun to take up the question of Bush's military service. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

The editorial page of The Washington Times, a small but influential newspaper among conservatives, on Tuesday called for the resignation of Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert over his failure to report inappropriate communications between an underage House page and former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL).

President Bush signs a housing bill that could help struggling homeowners stay in their homes and stabilize the nation's troubled housing market, while tightening regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. NPR's Brian Naylor discusses the bill and explains the key points that every homeowner should know.

Robert Siegel talks with NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson, who is traveling with President Clinton on a three-day campaign swing out West. Today, Clinton is in Sacramento, California, talking about domestic violence. It's one of a series of appearances the president has made in which he's made fairly modest proposals to address problems the White House thinks are of key concern to a crucial group of voters: suburban families. (5:00)

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Bill Clinton, Rep. Robert Matsui (D-CA); Marsha reenberger of the National Women's Law Center; Josiah Bunting, Superintendent f the Virginia Military Institute; former head of White House personnel ecurity, Craig Livingstone; Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and former White House ounsel Bernard Nussbaum

NPR'S Ted Clark reports that the White House is mulling what to do about Saturday's planned flotilla at the site of last weekend's downing of two planes by Cuba. The administration wants to protect U.S. citizens engaged in the flotilla and also wants to prevent them from setting U.S. policy by provoking another confrontation with Cuba. Meanwhile, the White House and Congress continue to negotiate a bill that would further tighten U.S. sanctions on Cuba.

President Clinton met with members of the Republican leadership today to discuss balancing the budget. The White House said the President was pleased with the meeting, but House Speaker Newt Gingrich indicated it was unlikely both sides could agree before the election on a long-term plan to balance the budget. Instead, the Republicans sais their legislative agenda will be to fund the government for the rest of the year, and pass a farm bill and a scaled-down line-item veto. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

White House aides continue defending the financing of President Clinton's recent re-election campaign after the release of more documents detailing more than 100 so-called "coffees," at the White House between Clinton supporters and the president. Administration officials deny that they peddled access to the president in exchange for campaign contributions, but NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that many of the visitors also met with Democratic fund-raising officials at those meetings and that some made hefty campaign contributions afterward.