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A U.S. Navy helicopter has crashed in the Red Sea, carrying a crew of five, the military service says. The status of the crew is not yet known; a search and rescue effort was begun after the crash. "The crash was not due to any sort of hostile activity," the Navy says.

Ozy co-founder Carlos Watson tells host Arun Rath about a new food delivery service, a chess master who is making the board game sexy and President Bill Clinton's comments on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and its two largest unions have reached an agreement — sort of. The unions are ending the five-day strike that halted commuter-rail service throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. BART and the unions agreed to extend their contracts for a month while negotiations continue.

Second-quarter earnings for Netflix more than quadrupled. The company reported its results Monday night after the markets closed. Netflix gave credit to its revival of Arrested Development, which was released Memorial Day weekend. For the three months ending in June, the streaming service added 630,000 subscribers in the United States. But investors were expecting an even bigger number.

The group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 170 people, including 13 U.S. service members, last week.

The park service is trying to decide whether it makes sense to repair it as climate change brings more severe storms to the park.

The writer and civil rights supporter died in 1967. Her ashes spent years in a filing cabinet and at NAACP headquarters. Her family this week held a service at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

A new law took effect in Oregon this week allowing people in counties with a population of less than 40,000 to pump their own gas.

CBS News says it cannot prove the authenticity of documents purporting to be memos from a Texas military official. The documents were used in a 60 Minutes 2 report questioning President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. In a statement Monday, CBS News president Andrew Heyward said, "after doing extensive additional reporting the network cannot prove the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to using them in the report." NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

More than 1,000 U.S. service men and women have died in Iraq since the United States and its allies invaded last year. More than 7,000 soldiers have been wounded in action. Attacks on U.S. and allied forces in August averaged nearly 70 a day. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.