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A University of North Carolina professor is doing his best to shatter the myth that physics classes are difficult boring. In one example, Richard Superfine has students pretend to be a train to demonstrate magnetic levitation.

In an interview with NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid, the vice president also called on Congress to codify abortion rights.

Republican Darren Bailey, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, will face Democrat and billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker on the Illinois ballot for governor in November.

The entertainment company estimates there are now 100 million households using someone else's account. Last month, it announced plans to start charging for password sharing.

The grandmother often sang John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders" because it reminded her of life's tiny pleasures.

The stamps honor the Snake Island soldiers who answered a Russian calls to surrender with "Russian warship, go f*** yourself!" Ukraine's postal service had to limit purchases to six stamps apiece.

Rodrigues island's "cafe marron" plant has been presumed extinct for scores of years. Then, one day, a little boy told his teacher that the plant lived, near his house. Suddenly, an obscure, skinny little bush that nobody had noticed became an international treasure and the focus of a 20-year effort to preserve it.

The Senate asks in hearings whether fraud was committed during the dispersal of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid following hurricanes in the South last year.

Police in three Western states are seeking the reclusive leader of a religious group which openly practices polygamy. Warren Jeffs heads the church, which dominates twin towns on the Utah-Arizona border. Jeffs and three followers were indicted this week for sexual assault and conduct involving a minor. Howard Berkes reports.

Police and soldiers storm homes, schools and synagogues in several Gaza settlements, in a bid to evict diehard opponents of the Israeli withdrawal. Israeli media reports say more than 40 people -- mostly police and soldiers -- were injured.