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The Florida Republican, with one eye on the White House, tells NPR's Morning Edition that there's a role for government to play in opening access to higher education and job training.

NPR's Cokie Roberts and Ari Shapiro, and Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss the shooting down of a passenger jet in Ukraine and the Israeli military invasion of Gaza.

Some American fast-food restaurants in China have stopped using meat from a supplier in Shanghai after reports that it was selling expired beef and chicken.

Last spring a man bought an ancient Chinese ceramic cup, sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong. The price: $36 million. But because of currency rules, he paid with his American Express card.

People waking up with a hangover often say they'd pretty much give anything to make it go away — which may explain why a new company promising to do just that is thriving in New York.

Can year-round school spell the end of the "summer slide" for disadvantaged kids?

The fighting in Gaza has left more than 500 people dead. The State Department said it was deeply concerned about the risk of further escalation.

Also: North Carolina Poet Laureate Valerie Macon resigns; David Orr on James Franco's poetry.

Also: A Wisconsin train derailment spills fuel and forces evacuations; the first Arab-American U.S. governor, Oregon's Vic Atiyeh, dies; and that huge, floating rubber duck is missing in China.

The fighting in the North African country is some of the worst since the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.