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As Trump pushes schools to reopen, international students respond to plans to deport those in online-only courses; Houston's hospitals struggle to cope with record cases; Black and Latinx people suffer more due to racism and health service disparities.

As judge orders the Dakota Access Pipeline shut down, a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe elder responds; the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is canceled after years of protests; a person jailed at ICE's Otay Mesa Detention Center describes the COVID outbreak there.

Indigenous scholar and activist Nick Estes on Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore, renaming sports teams, and COVID in Indian Country; Exclusive interview with Egyptian prisoner rights advocate Laila Soueif, fighting for the release of her son and daughter.

James Earl Jones reads Frederick Douglass's historic speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; Angela Davis, Cornel West, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Tamika Mallory on the historic uprising against racism and police violence.

Tribal governments call on Trump to cancel his Independence Day rally at Mount Rushmore; Barbara Ransby on the "Biden problem" facing social movements; The family of Vanessa Guillén, a soldier at Fort Hood, demands answers after her disappearance.

Jamaal Bowman on his upset primary victory over Israel hawk Eliot Engel, and his support for Palestine, a rent strike and police accountability; Atlantic science writer Ed Yong on the U.S. COVID crisis, and how Medicare for All could have saved lives.

In the first big abortion ruling of the Trump era, the Supreme Court strikes down a restrictive Louisiana law; NAACP President Derrick Johnson on Trump, Facebook and Mississippi retiring its Confederate state flag; Occupy City Hall protests in New York.

We go inside Otay Mesa Detention Center in California to speak to Anthony Alexandre, a Haitian immigrant and longtime U.S. resident who has led two hunger strikes to protest dire conditions and a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the jail.

As coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide, we talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Laurie Garrett; calls grow for justice for Elijah McClain, victim of police killing; Louisiana environmental activists face terror charges for protesting.

The Supreme Court rules the U.S. can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers; Controversy grows over police use of facial recognition technology; Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $2.1 billion for its talcum products contaminated with asbestos.

The coronavirus pandemic is devastating the hemisphere's two largest countries, the United States and Brazil; Rev. William Barber on the Poor People's Campaign's call for a moral revival.

Jamaal Bowman is set to out Rep. Eliot Engel in a progressive victory; Noura Erakat on Israel's plan to annex the West Bank as Israeli forces fatally shot her cousin; Black Lives Matter protests are changing sports; COVID-19 spreads in San Quentin prison.

Trump targets anti-fascists but ignores violent far-right groups despite a series of arrests of neo-Nazis; primary voters face long lines amid record turnout; a Dallas protester lost his eye when police shot him in the face with a less-than-lethal weapon.

Trump ousts a U.S. attorney who led investigations into his allies; Trump’s racist remarks at his poorly attended Tulsa rally draw outrage; As five men are found hanging amid mass protests, we talk to a filmmaker who examines the history of lynchings.

In an immigrant rights victory, the Supreme Court blocks Trump's attempt to end DACA; Calls grow to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; Before Trump's Tulsa rally, we look at the city's racist history from the 1921 race massacre to today's police killings.