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Some customers in the Phoenix metro area will be able to use a driverless shuttle service to pick up groceries at Walmart — if they purchase them online.

Director Barry Jenkins took the novel step of hiring an on-set mental health counselor for the new Amazon series.

Ehud Yonay wrote the 1983 magazine story that inspired the original Top Gun film. His widow and son say they recovered the copyright and that Paramount didn't secure the film rights before the sequel.

NPR Ed's first web comic is about a great art teacher who believes art can teach his students how to build their dreams, and change the world.

Also: Pope Francis accepts the resignation of a controversial bishop; Secret Service agents disciplined; and Georgia may soon pass a law permitting guns nearly everywhere.

Also: More underwater sounds heard in the hunt for a missing airliner; Ukraine claims Russia is destabilizing the country; and President Obama will attend a memorial service at Fort Hood for victims.

Disney says that when current contracts expire it will no longer offer new movies and TV shows to Netflix. It's also launching two new streaming services — one for movies and TV and the other an ESPN sports stream. Content creators such as Disney are increasingly questioning their relationships with streaming services like Netflix, as cord cutters erode profits for cable channels.

Also: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius criticizes her critics; France orders another large military operation in Mali; Thailand's Buddhist patriarch dies; and Italian police arrest a group of corrupt morticians.

In some parts of Baltimore, whole blocks of buildings sit abandoned and boarded up. But few of the owners of these blighted buildings are held accountable. Now, activists are using a public art project that names names and a blog that does too to try to make a difference.