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How wearing a face mask became politically fraught

As several states experience surges in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the debate over wearing face masks is creating a sharp divide. Nearly everyone in the public health community says masks worn in crowded places can help slow coronavirus spread --…

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Shields and Brooks on Bolton's book claims, Juneteenth amid racial unrest

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including major Supreme Court decisions on LGBTQ employment protections and DACA, the claims from John Bolton’s new book about President…

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Remembering 5 people lost to the COVID-19 pandemic

By Judy Woodruff

The coronavirus pandemic continues to claim the lives of hundreds of Americans every day. Judy Woodruff remembers five of them, including a 29-year-old registered nurse and a 48-year-old firefighter.

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Vulnerable U.S. Latino communities hard hit by COVID-19

By Regina Garcia Cano, Anita Snow, Bryan Anderson, Associated Press

As the coronavirus spreads deeper across America, it is ravaging through Latino communities from the mid-Atlantic to the Southwest, infecting them at alarmingly high rates and amplifying the inequalities they live with.

Phoenix mandates use of face masks for coronavirus

By Terry Tang, Associated Press

At an emergency meeting Friday, Mayor Kate Gallego and the Phoenix City Council voted to make masks or face coverings mandatory. The order goes into effect at 6 a.m. Saturday.

AMC Theaters to require face masks after backlash

By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press

The nation’s largest movie theater chain changed its position on mask-wearing less than a day after the company became a target on social media for saying it would defer to local governments on the issue.

U.N. rights body to report on racism after Floyd killing

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

The action by the Human Rights Council on Friday stopped short of ordering a more intensive investigation singling out the United States after George Floyd's death on May 25.

WATCH: Navy upholds firing of carrier captain in virus outbreak

By Lolita C. Baldor, Robert Burns, Associated Press

The spread of the coronavirus aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt while on deployment in the Pacific in March exploded into one of the biggest military leadership crises of recent years.

WATCH: House briefing explores structural racism in policing

By Laura Santhanam

Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform heard testimony Friday about systemic racism in policing after police-involved killings of black Americans.