Planet β Pictoris b spins so fast, its day only lasts eight hours. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/F. Reddy hide caption
Must Reads : The Two-Way Some stories are just too weird, too funny or too sad to ignore. They may not be "serious news," but are so fascinating you must read them. NPR correspondents are on the watch for such tales. We pass along the best, from NPR and other news outlets.
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Wednesday
Author Tess Gerritsen says Warner Bros. owes her 2.5 percent of the profits from the movie Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Warner Bros. hide caption
Tuesday
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announces a lifetime ban and a $2.5 million fine for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling Tuesday. Silver said the league verified an audio recording of Sterling making racist remarks. Elsa/Getty Images hide caption
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee smiles before receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2007. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Technicians sweep an area of the Convent of las Trinitarias Descalzas using ground-penetrating radar to search for the remains of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes four centuries after his death. Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
An E.T. doll was held up at the site of an exploratory dig for old Atari video games Saturday. Workers dug into a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., that had long been rumored to be the final resting place of millions of copies of the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Juan Carlos Llorca/AP hide caption
Friday
Mark Memmott: All packed up and ready to move on to a new role at NPR. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption
Ryan Giggs, who is filling in as manager of Manchester United, one of the world's most valuable and most popular soccer clubs. He's vowing to make fans proud of the team again. Alex Livesey/Getty Images hide caption
First lady Michelle Obama hugs Charlotte Bell, 10, after the girl handed the first lady her dad's resume on Thursday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Polish writer Tadeusz Różewicz is pictured in 2010 in Lodz, Poland. Grzegorz Michalowski/EPA /LANDOV hide caption
Thursday
Pope Francis as he celebrated Communion last July in Brazil. Buda Mendes/Getty Images hide caption
Pedestrians walk past the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York City in this 2013 photo. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Wednesday
Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in 1982, died last week at age 87. Paco Junquera/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
College in the 1970s, when America was still the most educated nation. Ed Uthman/Flickr hide caption
Former Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, pictured in 2013, has a laundry list of legal changes he'd like to see and thinks "ultimately each will be adopted." Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption