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The federal minimum wage goes up 70 cents to $5.85 an hour. More than a million workers will make around $1,500 a year more than they would have without the increase. It is the first increase in a decade.

Last month, All Things Considered asked listeners to share their summer food memories. We share a sampling, from ripe honeydews and cantaloupes and homemade pesto to a family tradition of picking ripe apricots to make loads of jam.

The love-story-by-the-sea follows a free-spirited couple living happily on Cape Cod after World War II — until an affair splits them apart. In her simple, poetic prose, Dillard depicts the abiding love between two unconventional people, and how they survive life's unexpected turns.

The founder of Blackwater USA defends his private security company against charges of covering up Iraqi civilian deaths. Erik Prince is testifying before a congressional panel.

A cheap dollar may be boosting exports, but it's also putting U.S. companies on sale. Foreign firms are snatching up U.S. based companies at the fastest pace in seven years. When the topic is foreign takeovers of U.S. firms it doesn't take much to prompt concerns about loss of jobs and control. But many observers see these transactions as an absolutely normal and inevitable part of globalization.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo knows small towns well. He writes about them and grew up in one. His new novel, Bridge of Sighs, captures the dilemma of leaving — or staying in — a small town like his own.

Feel the rush.

Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N.'s special envoy to Myanmar, sees pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi hours after meeting with Myanmar's military leader, Gen. Than Shwe. Gambari hopes to end the junta's crackdown on democracy advocates.

A jury orders the owners of the NBA's New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive. The jury of four women and three men found that team officials, including coach Isiah Thomas, sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders.

At least 10 African Union soldiers were killed in Darfur over the weekend when about 1,000 rebels from the Sudan Liberation Army, the largest rebel group in Darfur, attacked the peacekeepers' base outside the town of Haskanita.