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President George Bush defends his record on job-creation and managing the U.S. economy during a speech in Missouri Monday as the White House sends its annual economic report to Congress. Bush's economic report predicts the economy will grow at 4 percent in 2004, with 2.6 million new jobs created. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

The U.S. First Marine Division moves to seal off roads on the east and north side of the Iraqi capital, and troops fight from skirmish to skirmish, finding huge caches of weapons and ammunition hidden along the sides of Highway 6 along the Tigris River. Hear NPR's John Burnett.

Rock will host the 2005 Academy Awards, airing Sunday. The comedian spent time on the cast of Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, and his comedy TV specials include last year's Chris Rock: Never Scared and Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker. This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 6, 1997.

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.

Some 6,000 pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act provide new details about the mistreatment of detainees by U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Jackie Northam.

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

Hurricane Wilma is moving farther out into the Atlantic Ocean, but the United States isn't quite done with the storm yet. Residents in northeastern states are getting a lot of rain, and in Florida, 6 million people are without power.

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.