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The Occupy D.C. movement on K Street is getting itself educated. NPR's Peter Overby checked in this week as they held a teach-in with Harvard Law School's Lawrence Lessig, who said protesters can take their government back from the influence of big donors by forging an alliance with the Tea Party grassroots.

Archaeologists announced this week that they have found a 1,000-year-old Viking burial site in the Scottish Highlands of Ardnamurchan. Host Scott Simon takes note of the find, which has been called "one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain."

The World Series moves to Texas on Saturday, with the Rangers hosting the Cardinals for game 3. Scott Simon talks with NPR's Mike Pesca about what to expect.

Light heavyweight Dewey Bozella won his first professional bout this week, at a time of life when most men are fighting male pattern baldness. Host Scott Simon takes note of the boxer, who made his professional debut at age 52 after spending a quarter-century in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Moammar Gadhafi is dead, NATO will end its military operation in Libya at the end of the month, and all but a handful of U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, about those stories and others from the past week.

With the 2012 Iowa caucuses just over 10 weeks away, conservative Christian Republican voters in Iowa are still searching for a presidential candidate. As GOP Party Chairman Reince Priebus said, "There's only one perfect person that walked the face of this Earth."

European leaders are still working on an agreement aimed at getting ahead of the debt crisis in the euro zone. They were expected to unveil a deal at Sunday's European Union summit in Brussels, but have already said it will take another meeting to do it. Host Audie Cornish speaks with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

After 36 years, the annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention will go silent. Radio dramas don't have the audiences they once had, losing out to other distractions. Listeners can still tap into the rich catalogue of The Lone Ranger, Sherlock Holmes and many others via the Internet, though, so the work lives on. Scott Gurian spent time with the group on their last day.

Libya's Transitional National Council could resign Sunday to make way for a new interim government that will guide the country through elections. Libyans who went to see Moammar Gadhafi's corpse Saturday in Misurata had their own thoughts on what lies ahead and what the former dictator's death means to them. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports from Misurata.

Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the supercommittee. The group is working on a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Host Audie Cornish gets an update from Van Hollen, who played a major role in Vice President Joe Biden's debt talks earlier this year.