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Trump Returns To Campaign Trail, TSA Whistleblower Speaks Out, College Financial Aid

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Trump Returns To Campaign Trail, TSA Whistleblower Speaks Out, College Financial Aid

President Trump is returning to the campaign trail for first time in over three months. What will he say to supporters in Tulsa? A TSA employee has filed a whistleblower complaint. The complaint says the agency failed to protect travelers and staff from the coronavirus. Also, college students and their families may need more financial aid. NPR has learned the U.S. Department of Education is making it harder for students to get it.

Trump Returns To Campaign Trail, TSA Whistleblower Speaks Out, College Financial Aid

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Breaking News Update: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Administration on DACA

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Breaking News Update: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Administration on DACA

The U.S. Supreme Court has extended a lifeline to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed roughly 650,000 so-called "Dreamers" to stay and work in this country legally. The 5-4 decision allows the "Dreamers" to remain safe from deportation for now.

Breaking News Update: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Administration on DACA

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Bolton Unloads On Trump, Charges Filed In Brooks' Death, Rising COVID-19 Cases

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Bolton Unloads On Trump, Charges Filed In Brooks' Death, Rising COVID-19 Cases

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says President Trump pleaded with China's leader to help him win the election in November. His new book has damning details about the president's conduct. A former Atlanta police officer has been charged with murder for shooting Rayshard Brooks. What's the response in Atlanta? COVID-19 cases in Florida are surging, but you wouldn't know it to hear Governor Ron DeSantis talk.

Bolton Unloads On Trump, Charges Filed In Brooks' Death, Rising COVID-19 Cases

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Republicans To Unveil Police Reform Plan, India-China Border Conflict, Economic Study

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Republicans To Unveil Police Reform Plan, India-China Border Conflict, Economic Study

Senate Republicans are joining the debate over policing reform. They propose to ban chokeholds and help pay for body cameras. On the border between India and China, at least 20 soldiers have been killed. Each country accuses the other's troops of causing the fighting in the mountains. Also, people with low incomes have started buying things again. More affluent people have not. A finding with big implications for the economic recovery.

Republicans To Unveil Police Reform Plan, India-China Border Conflict, Economic Study

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Trump Takes On Policing, Plans To Reduce U.S. Troops In Germany, California Deaths

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Trump Takes On Policing, Plans To Reduce U.S. Troops In Germany, California Deaths

President Trump will sign an executive order on policing on Tuesday. He proposes a national database to track police misconduct, and for social workers to go with police on some calls. The president also talks of pulling thousands of American troops out of Germany. What lies behind his latest threat directed at a NATO ally? In California, two Black men were found dead in unusual circumstances. Their deaths were ruled suicides. One case is being re-opened after demands for more investigation.

Trump Takes On Policing, Plans To Reduce U.S. Troops In Germany, California Deaths

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Protests in Atlanta, Record Spikes in New Coronavirus Cases, Arizona Reopening

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Protests in Atlanta, Record Spikes in New Coronavirus Cases, Arizona Reopening

What does an autopsy reveal about Rayshard Brooks' death? Video shows the 27-year-old Georgia man seized a police officer's Taser as he fled an arrest. The autopsy shows the officer who shot him hit him twice in the back. Florida, Texas and other states have set records for new coronavirus cases. But Arizona's governor says the state is ready to reopen even as new cases soar.

Protests in Atlanta, Record Spikes in New Coronavirus Cases, Arizona Reopening

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BONUS: Patent Racism

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BONUS: Patent Racism

In this bonus episode, the team at NPR's Planet Money brings us a story on patents in the U.S. Dr. Lisa Cook found a blindspot in a big theory on innovation: the idea that if we just make strong patent laws, innovation will come. True for some, not true for others. Her research has huge implications for Black Americans — and for the wealth of entire countries. But convincing her colleagues took a lot more than data.

BONUS: Patent Racism

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Coronavirus On The Rise, Chokeholds Divide Republicans, U.K. Protests Intensify

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Coronavirus On The Rise, Chokeholds Divide Republicans, U.K. Protests Intensify

Some states are seeing a worrying rise in coronavirus infections. President Trump is caught between supporting police and pressure to reform some of their tactics. Protesters in the U.K. are targeting monuments they say glorify a racist past.

Coronavirus On The Rise, Chokeholds Divide Republicans, U.K. Protests Intensify

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Trump Order On Police, Re-Imagining Police Departments, Race For COVID-19 Vaccine

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Trump Order On Police, Re-Imagining Police Departments, Race For COVID-19 Vaccine

President Trump plans to sign an executive order encouraging better practices by police departments, but rejected more far-reaching proposals to tackle racial injustice and police brutality in the United States. Also, a look at what some cities and states are already doing to address calls for police reforms. And, how is the development for a coronavirus vaccine going as many areas of the U.S. begin to re-open?

Trump Order On Police, Re-Imagining Police Departments, Race For COVID-19 Vaccine

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Presidential Campaign, Amazon Pauses Police Use Of Facial Software, Iran Prisoner

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Presidential Campaign, Amazon Pauses Police Use Of Facial Software, Iran Prisoner

With the presidential election just a few months away, President Trump and Democratic hopeful former vice president Joe Biden are returning to the campaign trail. How are they making their case to lead a nation in crises? Also, Amazon is putting a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial-recognition technology, yielding to pressure from police-reform advocates and civil rights groups. And, a U.S. grad student imprisoned in Iran for more than three years tells his story for the first time since being released in December.

Presidential Campaign, Amazon Pauses Police Use Of Facial Software, Iran Prisoner

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