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A civilian panel's report pins much of the direct blame for abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on a few rogue soldiers on the night shift. But it also faults the Pentagon's top leaders, and is especially critical of Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former senior military commander in Iraq.

North Carolina beat Illinois Monday night 75-70 to capture the NCAA men's basketball championship in St. Louis. After trailing 40-27 at halftime, the top-ranked Fighting Illini rallied to tie, then faltered in the final minute. It's the first national title for UNC coach Roy Williams.

A top item on the Democrats' priority list is ethics reform. Wednesday marks exactly one year since lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in the biggest congressional corruption scandal in years. Democrats ran for office promising to end what they called the Republicans' "culture of corruption."

Violence in Afghanistan is at a six-year high, according to top U.S. commanders there. The officers spoke to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who also met with NATO commanders and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Gates is on the latest stop on a whirlwind tour through Europe and the Middle East.

Today in Washington, President Bush announced the creation of a presidential bipartisan committee to review the care of patients at military and veterans hospitals. On Capitol Hill, Senate lawmakers questioned top defense officials about the poor living conditions and delayed outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Northwest Airlines is the last of the top five U.S. carriers to shed billions of dollars of debt and exit bankruptcy. To get back into the black, Northwest had to slash pay and benefits for its 30,000 workers. Flight attendants and pilots rallied Wednesday against the airline in Minneapolis, saying executives are profiting on their 40 percent pay cuts.

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, was in Washington on Thursday and told members of the media that Americans should expect more casualties in the coming weeks.

Top officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations tell the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that they had no specific intelligence before the attacks suggesting terrorists might hijack airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center. But last year, Congress published a report saying a number of warnings detailing the attacks were ignored. Hear NPR's Danny Zwerdling.

Testifying before a judicial inquiry, top British intelligence official John Scarlett denies that his office was pressured by Prime Minister Tony Blair's staff to exaggerate evidence showing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to Britain. New polls suggest 67 percent of Britons believe Blair misled the public about the Iraqi threat. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

Producer Ben Shapiro brings us another installment in the New York Works series, about jobs that are slowly disappearing from the city of New York. Today we meet Charlie Zimmerman, who works for Rosenwach Wood Tanks. Rosewach is one of the few companies left that maintains water tanks on top of many New York buildings.