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Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Something Old Yeller Should Have Done.

Taxidermists, muralists and a crew of others have spent years sprucing up the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. On Saturday, the hall reopens to the public. Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with curator Ross MacPhee about the project.

Republican presidential nominee campaigned Saturday in Pensacola, Fla. His visit to the key swing state was all about motivating the troops on the day early voting opened in the state.

The global economic downturn has caught up with China, and the world's second largest economy is showing signs of slower growth. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with economists Michael Pettis and Andy Rothman about what's next for China's economy and how that might affect the U.S. and global markets.

Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks to Mort Berkowitz, who has been making political buttons since 1976. He shares some of his favorites with host Scott Simon.

Hurricane Sandy is already huge, powerful and deadly. Now meteorologists warn it's set to collide with cold air moving in from the arctic and a wintry storm blowing in from the west. NPR'S Joe Palca, Margot Adler and Joel Rose discuss the unusual series of events that helped create the "superstorm."

The approach of Hurricane Sandy is forcing presidential candidates to juggle their campaign schedules as they head for the home stretch. President Obama is flying to Florida ahead of schedule in order to beat the storm, but on Saturday the president had beautiful fall weather for a campaign rally in New Hampshire.

Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin reports on the "rules" of presidential elections, which pundits often cite, and which are broken every election year.

At a time when both presidential campaigns would typically be hitting all the swing states, some were off limits owing to Hurricane Sandy. Still, with only a week left before the election, the campaigns both had to find ways to continue their efforts while heeding Hurricane Katrina's lessons.

Wisconsin is in the small group of remaining battleground states that could determine the outcome of the presidential election. Turnout operations are an important part of the Mitt Romney and President Obama campaigns in all the critical states. But in Wisconsin, get-out-the-vote efforts grew out of the state's hard-fought gubernatorial recall election.