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A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

Ratings for the XFL are dropping fast. The new football league's viewership is down 63 percent since its debut on NBC. Linda talks with Time magazine staff writer Joel Stein, who suggests some reasons for the XFL's problems.

Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. He now faces a criminal complaint alleging he forcibly touched a female staff member.

The Houston, Texas trio Spoon has recorded their first album in three years, it's called Girls Can Tell. The music is rock and roll with a tinge of punk -- and it was released today. Nick Mirov writes about music for Pitchfork Media-dot-Com, he has a review. (4:00) The album Girls Can Tell by Spoon is available on Merge Records, catalog # MRG195, see www.mrg2000.com. Also see www.pitchforkmedia.com.

Napster has offered one-billion dollars to settle a lawsuit with the recording industry. Record labels contend the online music service violates copyrights by helping its users copy music from each other for free. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Chris Arnold about Napster's settlement offer.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Former President Bill Clinton has asked his brother-in-law to return money he received in connection with pardons Mr. Clinton granted to two convicted felons at the end of his term. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Hugh was given about 200-thousand-dollars for successfully lobbying for the pardons. Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson about it.

One of the two people that Hugh Rodham advocated pardons for was convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali. Noah talks with Stephen Braun of the Los Angeles Times.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

As the investigation into the death of Illinois University University graduate student Jelani Day goes on, the time it took to find and identify the body looms larger, as potential evidence external to the body may have washed away while he was in the Illinois River.