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Journalist Michael Weisskopf is the senior correspondent for the Washington bureau of Time magazine. In 2003, while on assignment in Baghdad, he threw a live Iraqi grenade from the back of an open Humvee. He saved himself, four soldiers and Time's photographer, but lost his hand. Weisskopf's new book is Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57.

between the Justice Department and Nationwide Insurance, whereby Nationwide will invest more than $13 million in minority housing in 10 cities. Attorney General Janet Reno announced the settlement yesterday, calling it the largest ever under the federal Fair Housing Act. Nationwide also agreed to make insurance more available and affordable to homeowners in minority neighborhoods.

for the pilot and plane that disappeared during a training mission almost two weeks ago. Air Force investigators have concentrated their search on 10 square miles of a mountain range in central Colorado. The area's deep ravines, heavy timber and snow cover have hampered the search...which has used sophisticated military technology like satellites and spy planes.

A video posted on a militant Islamic Web site shows the beheading of a man identified as civilian contractor Eugene Armstrong. Armstrong was kidnapped along with one British and one American colleague from their house in Baghdad Thursday. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Robert Siegel.

With Al Jazeera taking the lead, Arabic-language news networks are shifting strategy due to increased competition and pressure from Arab governments unhappy with their political coverage.

of the Immigration and Naturalization Service was on Capitol Hill yesterday to give testimony on an embarrassing incident. In the summer of 1995, INS officials in Miami lied and deceived members of Congress who had come down for a visit. To make the center appear less crowded, they released dozens of illegal aliens...some criminals and some who hadn't been screened for communicable diseases. Last week, 12 INS employees were fired, demoted or suspended.

Steve Inskeep talks to John Sepulvado of Oregon Public Broadcasting for the latest developments in the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.

A study suggests large mammals must learn to migrate — and they aren't exactly quick studies. It takes decades before populations can effectively move across land to find the best food.

Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is again up for discussion in Congress. For decades, oil development has had the strong backing of the Inupiat Eskimo communities that dot Alaska's North Slope. But that support is beginning to erode.

Lawmakers anxiously await the Mueller report, but there's a catch: redactions. Greg Brower, formerly the FBI's chief liaison to Congress, discusses with Lulu Garcia-Navarro what might be blacked out.