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NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the news of the week.

The federal govenrment is creating a database on cats. Scott speaks with Dr. Marilyn Menotti Raymond from the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD where she's in charge of the project.

Scott with some thoughts about U.S. relations with Cuba and China in the aftermath of this week's U.N. Millennium Summit.

A ruling by an Idaho jury may bankrupt the leader of this country's leading neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Nation. Andy Bowers reports from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator on Rapoport about the impact of minority athletes Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Tiger Woods.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on the various protest groups that showed up in New York for the Millennium Summit this week.

Martin Kaste reports from Brazil that South American politicians are talking more and more these days about economic integration. At a recent summit, Latin American presidents pledged to work for creation of a continent-wide free-trade zone by the year 2002. Analysts say the drive toward integration is spurred, in part, by the growing US involvement in the drug war in Colombia. Many Brazilian politicians, in particular, say the new billion-dollar US aid package to Colombia smacks of imperialism, and they want to counter the US presence by banding together.

Authorities conducting a drug raid in Colombia, outside Bogota, found drug runners were constructing a submarine large enough to smuggle 200 tons of cocaine. Linda talks with Ruth Morris, who covered the story for the Los Angeles Times.

Linda talks to Sports Columnist Bud Collins about the US Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, New York, and how the men's and women's finals are shaping up. (3:45) Info on the Internet at http://www.usopen.org.

Scott speaks with Mike Bailey, the head alligator handler at the Seminole Okalee Indian Village in Hollywood, Florida, about the tribe's search for new alligator wrestlers to carry on the Seminole tradition.