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Everyone who lost a home to the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado seems to have a story about stuff: the stuff they grabbed as they fled, the treasures they forgot to pack. Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee reports on what it means to start over.

College presidents have agreed to a playoff system for big time college football. Guest host David Greene gets NPR's Mike Pesca's this development in college football.

The actress, whose credits include The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Hunger Games and People Like Us, says she could watch Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction a million times. "Every character jumps off the screen," she says.

A law in Louisiana stopped monks at St. Joseph Abbey from selling their wood caskets in the state. That law is just one of dozens of antiquated and possibly monopolistic laws that pervade the nation's funeral industry. But for the first time in decades, the laws are facing new scrutiny as consumers become more aware of their rights.

Author Solomon Jones says death can seem angelic at first — especially to the lost, addicted kids in his book The Last Confession. He says many of his stories come from his own experiences as a homeless drug addict on the streets of Philadelphia.

Members of Congress have left town for their July 4 recess but Washington is still reacting to the Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's health care law. Each party is looking for ways to use the decision to its advantage in the fall campaign.

Preliminary results in Mexico's presidential race indicate the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, will return to the presidency after being out of office for 12 years.

Marcus Agius quit on Monday. His resignation comes just days after the bank agreed to pay British and U.S. regulators a $450 million fine to settle charges that Barclays traders and executives had manipulated a key interest rate for profit.

About 2.7 million people from the mid-Atlantic west to Ohio are entering a third day without power and with temperatures well above 90 degrees. For some, the electricity may not be on until the coming weekend.