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A southern Illinois man has pleaded guilty to bank fraud charges filed in U.S. District Court. According to the U.S. attorney's office in southern…

An expert assigned to untangle the finances of Indian tribes, managed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, says the answer is to jettison the current system and start over. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that billions of dollars that Native American lands earn pass through the BIA and that money is supposed to be paid to individuals and tribes. The expert analyzing what went wrong says antiquated accounting practices and other forms of mismanagement require the establishment of a new agency to handle the money.

to get Holocaust victim's money from secret Swiss accounts. American Jewish leaders are again calling on Swiss banks to find and redistribute money deposited during the Nazi era. Under international pressure, Switzerland is conducting an investigation into what happened to the money deposited by European Jews, and how much is owed to Holocaust survivors or their families.

NPR's Vicky Que reports on Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler's decision to resign his position. The Clinton Administration had asked him to stay through the President's second term, but Kessler decided to step down. Kessler, a pediatrician and an attorney, was the object of widespread acclaim for his pressure on President Clinton to tackle the powerful tobacco industry...but had come under some fire in recent days regarding his expense accounts.

In the high country of northern Arizona, there has long been friction between police departments and the Navajo and Hopi. By all accounts, the situation has dramatically improved in the last 20 years. But relations between the police and Native Americans, as well as Hispanics, remain tense in the towns bordering the reservation, especially with rising apprehensions about gangs. This includes the mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona, long considered the most tolerant of the Indian border towns. Sandy Tolan reports.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court threw out an opioid ruling against Johnson & Johnson, raising questions about the legal strategy used to hold the drug industry accountable for the opioid crisis.

An attack on a U.S. military base in Mosul takes a high toll. NPR's Michele Norris gets a firsthand account from Jeremy Redmon, a reporter with the Richmond Times-Dispatch who is embedded with the 276th Engineer Battalion, a Virginia National Guard unit stationed at the base.

Margaret Sartor offers an account of growing up in 1970s Louisiana in Miss American Pie, a memoir of adolescence told through diary entries written during Sartor's girlhood.

Firings, rehirings, resignations, fake accounts and a back-and-forth with the Federal Trade Commission in just this week alone are painting a dire picture for the future of the social media platform.

Court-appointed defense lawyers begin presenting arguments to spare Zacarias Moussaoui's life. The prosecution rested its case for the death penalty in the sentencing phase of the confessed terrorist's court saga after presenting a series of emotional accounts from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.