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Air traffic control lost contact with the Cessna just 15 minutes after takeoff, the NTSB tells NPR. The wayward business jet set off military and defense alarms in the national capital area.

The move comes after Hugh Culverhouse Jr. urged students and businesses to boycott Alabama over its restrictive new abortion law. The school says its rejection of the money isn't related to that law.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with author Lawrence Wright about the fate of Al-Qaida five years after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer says foreign operatives may be involved in Saturday's attack on a police station in Fallujah that killed at least 25. Bremer believes the attacks could be the work of suspected al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian blamed for calling for increased attacks on civilian Iraqi targets. Hear NPR's Corey Flintoff.

The film is based on the best-selling novel by M.L. Stedman, and features Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in its lead roles.

Prosecutors making their closing arguments in the trial of two Tyco executives accused of stealing $170 million from the company emphasize what they call the pair's opulent lifestyles. Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Thursday in the case of former chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski and former financial head Mark H. Swartz. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and reporter Nancy Solomon.

In L.A. Superior Court on Monday morning, attorneys for clergy sex-abuse victims and for the archdiocese presented a $660 million settlement. Attorneys and advocates for the victims are skeptical of the timing of the settlement as they believe it was timed to prevent the trial that was set to go ahead that day.

A week ago, an estimated 1.5 million gallons of a fluid used in drilling the underground pathway for the Rover gas pipeline spilled in southwestern...

At least $1.1 billion was actually paid out in these schemes targeting elderly patients, high-risk and low-income pregnant women and HIV patients.

Prosecutors say Wayne T. Essex, 70, and his wife, Susan Essex, 67, used their business, Essex and Associates, to sell investments in property in so-called "opportunity zones" around the country.