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New trade rules lifting quotas on garment exports are having an impact for many countries. One such country is the tiny African nation of Lesotho, where six factories have closed and some 6,000 workers have lost their jobs.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the 6-3 opinion.

Oxford American magazine has released its 6th music issue, which includes a 23-track CD. The effort of collecting and compiling that many songs may seem like a strange choice for "the southern magazine of good writing," but editor Marc Smirnoff says it's actually quite natural. American music comes from the South, Smirnoff tells Steve as they highlight some of the tracks.

We spoke with him on the occasion of an album releasethe double CD concert album Premonition. Featured on the recording is many of his biggest hits with Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Down on the Corner," "Bad Moon Rising," and "Proud Mary." Fogerty won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his album Blue Moon, Swamp. (Original Airdate: 6

A man in Japan wanted to make it into the Guinness book of world records. He considered trying to drink the most hot sauce, but settled on a spikier record. His hairdo — a mohawk — stands 3 feet, 8.6 inches high.

Storyteller Mitch Myers recounts the tale of Duke Ellington's performance at the Newport Jazz festival in 1956. It's a story of a journeyman saxophone player, Paul Gonsalves, and how his playing that night would become legend. (6:00) Music is from the CD Ellington at Newport on the Columbia Jazz label. The tune is called Diminuendo/Crescendo in Blue.

Ken Foster's memoir The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind is about to come out in paperback. He also contributed to and edited the collection Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines. (This interview was first broadcast April 6, 2006.)

Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg and Democratic election lawyer Mark Brewer share their concerns as the country braces for the first national election since attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential results and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

6PPD is a rubber stabilizing chemical that spreads onto roads and makes its way into rivers where it is poisoning fish, including the coho salmon.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”