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The coup that removed democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi from office sets the stage for what could be violent protests by his supporters. Interim leader Adly Mansour is supposed to be in office only until new elections can be held.

There's been plenty of extreme weather in recent days. Along with the heat and the rain, there's word that more than a foot of hail fell Wednesday evening on Santa Rosa, N.M.

If you think that government and the financial industry are a bit too friendly in the U.S., try England. London's version of Wall Street is called the City. And in the City, the line between government and corporate interests gets even blurrier. Critics say it's time for change.

Also: Harry Potter's Diagon Alley is now walkable, sort of, in Google Streetview; Jane Smiley on Alice Munro's retirement; a "review" of America.

Does X-ray vision really add up? The latest Superman movie, Man of Steel,finally tries to make sense of Superman's super senses. It's a story that might well ring true to mere mortals who have gone through the experience of having a dormant sense restored.

Fridays are funnier with a cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.

Jessica Harris talks to Dr. Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, a company that makes robots for the manufacturing industry. Brooks also co-founded iRobot, which introduced the vacuuming robot Roomba in 2002. Harris also speaks with Brij Kothari, founder of Planet Read.

The violinist joins host Michael Feinstein to play Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'" and more.

A documentary short narrated by Bob Boilen about NPR's final days at our Washington, D.C. headquarters earlier this year, with special archival footage from our last move in 1994.

The economy added 195,000 jobs in June, a surprise and a delight to both economists and Wall Street, even though the unemployment rate was stuck at 7.6 percent. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports that the economic recovery continues at a slow but steady pace.