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Orange County Education Board Member On Her Vote For Schools To Reopen Without Masks

4:03pm July 14, 2020

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Lisa Sparks, a member of the Orange County, Calif., Board of Education, about why she approves of the plan to reopen public schools without masks or social distancing.

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Federal Immigration Agency, TSA Face Budget Shortfalls During Pandemic

4:03pm July 14, 2020

by Brian Naylor

The coronavirus pandemic may force federal agencies to lay off some workers. The agency that handles citizenship applications has announced furloughs, and the TSA is offering early retirements.

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On Site Opera Offers Live Performances Over The Phone For Just 1 Person At A Time

4:03pm July 14, 2020

by Jeff Lunden

On Site Opera, a company that stages performances in unlikely places, has changed its format during the pandemic. Now it organizes live performances for an audience of just one — over the phone.

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Federal Government Resumes Capital Punishment, Executes Daniel Lee

3:59pm July 14, 2020

by Carrie Johnson

The government executed Daniel Lee, who was convicted of murdering three people, by lethal injection — marking the resumption of federal capital punishment for the first time in 17 years.

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2 Female Firsts At Supreme Court Are Stepping Down

3:59pm July 14, 2020

by Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court announced the first women to hold two prominent positions at the court are retiring. Pamela Talkin is the court's marshal; Christine Luchok Fallon is its reporter of decisions.

Retired Army Sgt. Felix McDermott is buried in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. His death is one of seven that Reta Mays has been charged with.

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Former VA Medical Worker Pleads Guilty To Murdering 7 Patients In West Virginia

3:43pm July 14, 2020

by Merrit Kennedy

Reta Mays was charged with killing seven patients by injecting them with insulin. She worked as a nursing assistant on the night shift at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Clarksburg.

The City of Tulsa resumed a test excavation for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation on July 13 at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

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Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

2:15pm July 14, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Tulsa officials began a test excavation to determine if land on in city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery is the site of a mass grave of victims of the race massacre. Most of the victims have never been found.

Fourth-generation funeral home director Patrick Kearns (left) and his business partner and brother-in-law Paul Kearns-Stanley stand in front of their funeral home in North Richmond Hill, Queens.

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New York Funeral Director: Pandemic Has Been A Wave That 'Knocks You Over'

1:36pm July 14, 2020

by Jessica Deahl

Fourth-generation funeral director Patrick Kearns and his brother-in-law Paul Kearns-Stanley are partners in a 120-year-old family funeral business. They describe their unrelenting work and worries.

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A construction worker rides a scooter Monday in Miami past a Hiero Veiga mural of businessman Moishe Mana (left) and Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez wearing masks.

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Miami Is Becoming The 'Epicenter Of The Pandemic,' Expert Warns

12:55pm July 14, 2020

by Greg Allen

Florida's coronavirus cases continue to be near record-levels as officials warn of worsening problems in several parts of the state. Hospitals are concerned about the increases.

President Trump and his advisers, including Attorney General William Barr, walk through Lafayette Square on June 1 after it was cleared of protesters. Trump then posed for photos holding up a Bible in front of St. John's Episcopal Church.

ACLU Demands Barr Name Special Prosecutor To Probe Lafayette Square Crackdown

10:00am July 14, 2020

by Carrie Johnson

The civil liberties group says Attorney General William Barr has a conflict of interest in heading any investigation of the crackdown outside the White House last month.