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The nation's gross domestic product, or value of goods and services, grew at a 4.2 percent annual rate during the first three months of the year, an improvement over the end of 2003 but not as strong as many analysts were expecting. The Commerce Department's prime price index, omitting food and energy, rose 2.3 percent, compared with 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Carter Hess lost his left leg while serving in Afghanistan in 2012. Last month, he lost his prosthetic leg in the water. Weeks later, a teenager found the titanium leg worth about $3,000.

U.S. troops find of boxes of suspicious white powder, a nerve agent antidote, and documents on chemical warfare at an industrial site south of Baghdad, according to a brigade commander of the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division. But U.S. forces have not yet found definitive proof that Saddam Hussein's regime has biological and chemical weapons. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Susan Davis plays the puzzle with Weekend Editionpuzzlemaster Will Shortz and WBUR listener Jared Voss of Medford, Mass.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Ben Huddle of Salem, Va.

Female vocalists are the focus on this week's blues program airing at 11pm, Saturday, October 3rd. The show begins with Bettye LaVette , Abbey Lincoln ,...

Jennifer Kuelzer of Las Vegas plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

For more on the new Hispanic census numbers, Robert Siegel talks with Jeffrey Passel, senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center. The latest numbers put the Hispanic population in the U.S. at about 41.3 million people. One-in-five kids under the age of five is now Hispanic.

"There is very little, if any, good news about housing," says David M. Blitzer, who oversees the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report.

Fox Sports Ohio will televise eight Cincinnati Reds spring training games from Arizona, two less than last year. Pitchers and catchers report to...