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Country singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has just returned from Paris where — while taking a break from a grueling tour schedule — she wrote the songs for her latest album, Another Country. Merritt and her longtime band play songs and take questions about the new album.

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304th Day of 2012 / 62 Remaining52 Days Until The First Day of WinterSunrise:7:34Sunset:6:1310 Hours 39 Minutes of DaylightMoon Rise: 6:47pmMoon…

The president made the declaration in an interview with ABC News.

Oscar Hijuelos has written eight novels exploring the Cuban-American experience. In 1990, he became the first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His latest work, a memoir called Thoughts Without Cigarettes, describes growing up Cuban in New York's Morningside Heights neighborhood.

Melissa Block talks with Skip Hollandsworth about Bernie — a new film he co-wrote with Richard Linklater. The project started out as a Texas Monthly article Hollandsworth wrote back in 1998 called "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas." At the heart of the story is Bernie Tiede — a 39-year-old soft-spoken assistant at the local funeral home — who admitted to killing an 81-year-old heiress and stealing her money.

At the Fairmont hotel in Washington, honeybees outnumber humans. Chefs plan to use their rooftop harvest to make desserts that deliver a direct hit of honey, like "honey caviar."

If a Northerner winds up winning Saturday's South Carolina primary, you could argue that it's because the good people of Columbia have the same interests, the same concerns and the same passions as the denizens of Des Moines and Nashua.

It's been 10 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. That conflict drastically changed the lives of Iraqi women. On International Women's Day, host Michel Martin talks with Iqbal al-Juboori, about how the war affected her personally, and what it's like for women to live in a conflict zone. al-Juboori works to provide job training and life skills to women and their families in rural parts of Iraq.

British singer Lily Allen writes infectious, bouncing pop music with wickedly biting lyrics. Lily Allen chats with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen and shares some of her favorite music.

United Airlines faces another large debt payment Monday. The struggling airline is trying to persuade the mechanics union to take salary cuts to help stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a company-wide effort to reduce labor costs. Jay Field reports.

The brutal rape and death of a young student in New Delhi is raising concerns about violence against women in India. To find out more about the challenges women face in the world's largest democracy, guest host Celeste Headlee speaks to a women's rights advocate and an Indian author.