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Coronavirus lawsuits, the declining birth rate, teenagers work the polls

<p>The <a href="https://apple.news/AqZPQlaT6SQaw3tYrXqDcYA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> says lawsuits have been filed against employers across the country over worker deaths from COVID-19.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AK5qBIeL8SIedfFH8SrU4Yw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg Businessweek</a> examines the potential for a significant decrease in U.S. births next year and asks what it could mean for the future economy.</p> <p>One hundred years after women won the right to vote, <a href="https://apple.news/A7-IzLjnWSt2WGl5mv744_w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Smithsonian Magazine</a> describes the challenges the first female voters faced when trying to cast their ballots.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/ARNweaFz-S4-iC_cBj3RXQQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> suggests one possible solution to the poll worker shortage: teenagers.</p>

$600 on the line, Supreme Court secrets, Van Gogh’s final days

<p>The <a href="https://apple.news/Ao0vk9G1XRu6oGF_CzBd7zA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> asks whether the weekly $600 in unemployment aid is disincentivizing people from rejoining the workforce. And <a href="https://apple.news/AjoLptvIbSqyKGHbDCDAQjw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">PBS NewsHour</a> has economists on both sides of the aisle weigh in on the debate.</p> <p>CNN obtains internal memos that reveal the inner workings of this year&rsquo;s Supreme Court deliberations. Read the four-part series: <a href="https://apple.news/AebMe2vzLRvO0yMQiJUN6MQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Part 1</a>, <a href="https://apple.news/AaJTkO4UISkehd55SpgJUxA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Part 2</a>, <a href="https://apple.news/AoL09pb0oTAKYJmaFIQPXdA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Part 3</a>, <a href="https://apple.news/Ag_fVP9RVQnufs-_i4KvbHg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Part 4</a>.</p> <p>Journalists at the <a href="https://apple.news/A4lNsjVz3QmuMkTqCaIWQFw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">San Francisco Chronicle</a> follow Theo, a 7-year-old boy who&rsquo;s been homeless his whole life.</p> <p>And a new discovery about Vincent Van Gogh&rsquo;s final painting. <a href="https://apple.news/A0A9-BfcdTJGKSBSZ6EQYJA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Newsweek</a> has the story.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p>

Have we grown numb to the soaring U.S. death toll?

<p>As the United States surpasses 150,000 coronavirus deaths, <a href="https://apple.news/Az4m1gb3kTGWSWwgwYp1yKg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR</a> explains why people become numb to statistics.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>The <a href="https://apple.news/AyE_WL7ejSLq-7jM7wP5pfQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> explores how colleges are attempting to get ready for fall classes.</p> <p>As NASA prepares to send a rover to Mars, the <a href="https://apple.news/AaE7t9XwhRhq2DMde261dMQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Verge</a> describes its goals for the mission.</p> <p>Rudy Gobert speaks with the <a href="https://apple.news/AX1T2-iXlQUOuUxHVphGXdw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> about the upcoming NBA season and what it&rsquo;s like to be known as the league&rsquo;s Patient Zero.</p>

The U.S. has a child care crisis

<p><a href="https://apple.news/A0wlxoCARQSiqgo5JOMHutg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">POLITICO</a> has an interview with labor economist Betsey Stevenson, who warns that the pandemic-era child care crisis will change the economy for decades to come.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AISMkh-Y5RImHLLX0uhFH2w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR</a> reports that millions of Americans are struggling to pay their utility bills as moratoriums on payments expire. And <a href="https://apple.news/AdrQJLA5mRgCq4Ftuq08MXA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg</a> explores the implications of a heat wave during the pandemic.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/Ahu4C2s2bT7WooBLHLtYowQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Vanity Fair</a> explains the rise of TikTok and the new class of celebrity the app has created. The <a href="https://apple.news/AGwz87GiuRImBKdxfi4Yt_g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">LA Times</a> describes why some TikTok stars have announced they&rsquo;re leaving the platform. And the <a href="https://apple.news/A3FLUnxbGSB6CuysIoO_-Ew?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> has an exclusive on Instagram&rsquo;s efforts to recruit TikTok creators for its future service Reels.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>Pop-culture writer Joe Berkowitz at <a href="https://apple.news/AL_-V_q95Q5K3O5_TQY6LTA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Fast Company</a> has a theory that a shortage of new TV shows could be beneficial.</p>

Biden's choice

<p>Ryan Lizza for <a href="https://apple.news/AkQuF7LitTmuGCcgDg423Pw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">POLITICO</a> analyzes the field of possible contenders for Joe Biden&rsquo;s vice presidential nominee.</p> <p>Many people are taking advantage of the country&rsquo;s national parks to get outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. But <a href="https://apple.news/AX4B5RbOUTOqeq2GPzPnbpA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">TIME</a> reports that visitors are failing to socially distance, leaving behind trash, and disregarding the surrounding communities.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AFQ1HmcF8TkKLASYO_Dk1oQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Sports Illustrated</a> and the <a href="https://apple.news/Aox2HhJmkT2i3Ufw7xYPtyg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Ringer</a> have stories about the outbreak of the virus in Major League Baseball, focusing on how the league&rsquo;s lack of precautions led to this point.</p> <p>Plus, <a href="https://apple.news/AEy7Mdy2BQfCtpI-p5Eo4uw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg</a> provides some helpful tips for people concerned about facing unemployment.</p>

The federal response to protests

<p>In an essay for the <a href="https://apple.news/AOJxCeb3VQKWthj82JdteJw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">New Yorker</a>, Masha Gessen delivers an ominous warning about the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump.</p> <p>Hannah Dreier profiles a police officer in Huntsville, Alabama, for the <a href="https://apple.news/At_OQbCsgSRmtyBa3wkG6HA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> as part of a focus on how cops respond to mental-health calls. <a href="https://apple.news/A1LZL_7DhSf2InACQSMZs9w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> says Eugene, Oregon, shows one way a town can shift responsibility for mental health off of its police department.</p> <p>Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, <a href="https://apple.news/AIke87222S667WzMWUNB5RQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">TIME</a> reflects on the challenges still faced by people with disabilities in the U.S. And <a href="https://apple.news/AqqPT9DipRwWFn798g7V2mA">Fast Company</a> examines why so much of our infrastructure is still not ADA-compliant.</p> <p>And if you&rsquo;re having trouble making sense of the latest political polls, <a href="https://apple.news/AHK8C3JRcSpawrj6WVRxVpA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">WIRED</a> and <a href="https://apple.news/ASkKb3-gpRIurOHz5COn6bA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">FiveThirtyEight</a> have useful guides ahead of November&rsquo;s elections.</p>

Climate change and the looming migration crisis

<p><a href="https://apple.news/Ahlf7SCgIScmuahZKfYCuKw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">ProPublica</a> and the New York Times Magazine report on the urgency of the global migration crisis as climate change forces millions from their homelands.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/Aopv_8ikzTpWQyN_30Lu98g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">POLITICO</a> and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/07/14/americas-great-outdoors-is-showing-its-age-congress-is-proposing-facelift/?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> explain how a divided Congress was able to pass a bipartisan conservation bill to guarantee $900 million every year toward maintaining American public lands.</p> <p>As Confederate monuments fall across the country, the <a href="https://apple.news/AUhTIaacCSUiwd7Ora0u-LQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> looks into where these rejected memorials are ending up.</p> <p>And Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead for <a href="https://apple.news/AUrSCNiDWTpCpRPMhrbQOuQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Slate</a> talk with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about being one of 10 women in the Harvard Law School class of 1959.</p>

Portland's “Wall of Moms”

<p><a href="https://apple.news/ATX9qoZirTDOpzTaFgFsEgQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg</a> and <a href="https://apple.news/A6UT5wHVhQ5eeusNPk-lBkw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">USA Today</a> say a record number of lawsuits are being filed ahead of November&rsquo;s elections.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AocXNMs1ET6S1kaoLnc3IVQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">The Atlantic and the Marshall Project</a> highlight the power of restorative justice &mdash; and its limitations.</p> <p>As protests escalate in Portland, Oregon, the <a href="https://apple.news/ADD-KxdunSfWAyclRlek6Xg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> speaks to the women forming the city&rsquo;s &ldquo;Wall of Moms&rdquo;, who are demanding an end to the federal response.</p> <p>And today is opening day for Major League Baseball. <a href="https://apple.news/AwB8rJ5ucQM-mKmqXa2Cy_Q?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">The Ringer</a> asks whether a shortened season might be better for the sport.</p>

Hackers target vaccine research

<p>As concerns over foreign hackers targeting U.S. vaccine research increase, congressional Republicans are introducing legislation to beef up enforcement. But with the world&rsquo;s nations pushing for a coronavirus vaccine, <a href="https://apple.news/AIcvHkSPqSNelgjFm7QNnbw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">POLITICO Magazine</a> says this arms-race approach might be counterproductive. The <a href="https://apple.news/AfN7jTg5_SRahVy7EVJe8Mg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> has an op-ed signed by the leaders of eight nations, calling for international cooperation in developing a vaccine. And a cybersecurity expert tells <a href="https://apple.news/A1mMcob5ITcm2LIlsn_TZeA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">PBS NewsHour</a> he&rsquo;s not concerned about hackers trying to gain access to vaccine research.</p> <p>China and the U.S. are launching competing Mars probes in a modern-day space race, the <a href="https://apple.news/AMHtkOugdQRKOs592xyHS1A?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> reports.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AbeGi9g7-SiuifgNIuop8_Q?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">National Geographic</a> charts the evolution of the vice presidency. And the <a href="https://apple.news/AoK2wUOWBTSSUAAJ9zfcmEg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Atlantic</a> proposes that Joe Biden&rsquo;s VP pick could be the most influential in history.</p> <p>Finally, the <a href="https://apple.news/AW1UDHBeDR1aBz_azXCksTQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> brings us an interview with an original Rosie the Riveter.</p>

Coronavirus vaccine trials show encouraging results

<p>In the race to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market, <a href="https://apple.news/A6GMn71BbRp2ll5BbhwnGmg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Oxford University</a> may be winning. <a href="https://apple.news/ATZFB_cswQoG-ZsTsrDPWmQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg Businessweek</a> has a profile on the researcher who has been prepping for this moment for decades.</p> <p>As school districts around the country debate holding in-person classes this fall, a growing trend points to wealthier families taking matters into their own hands. The <a href="https://apple.news/AhPGq3l4sS0iwYl2bQFUHag?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> reports on the rise of &ldquo;micro-schooling.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AfF7MyTsRTLWKebon5ddaDw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">GQ</a> profiles Atlanta rapper Killer Mike about his complicated political identity and his fight for racial justice and Black prosperity.</p> <p>And from the <a href="https://apple.news/AMsK_Gt-5T8S8UKQRt2qVyg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">L.A. Times</a>, a review of Alex Trebek&rsquo;s new memoir, and how the Jeopardy! host&rsquo;s battle with cancer has punctuated a legendary career.</p>

America honors John Lewis

<p>On today&rsquo;s show, we reflect on the life and legacy of the civil-rights icon and 17-term congressman. Tributes poured in from across the political spectrum, and Apple News editors collected some of the best ones in this <a href="https://apple.news/AvR1_TCeLTT79774IF6IS4Q?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Spotlight Collection</a>. Plus, <a href="https://apple.news/AafpvD_OuRbucq2bIUvefsg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Vox</a> compiled six of his most memorable speeches; and <a href="https://apple.news/Aq5uVXlWUSbWy5DCNdLwpmQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">New York Magazine</a> shares one of the Congressman&rsquo;s last interviews before his death as he reflects on the Black Lives Matter protests.</p> <p>Political analyst Perry Bacon Jr. charts the new and shifting landscape of Black politics for <a href="https://apple.news/AJD2Es4ifRhuv3d17hbnT-g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">FiveThirtyEight</a>.</p> <p>In Portland, Oregon, federal authorities have cracked down on protesters. <a href="https://apple.news/A-qzqSaKsR6asJcpN8wtxBw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR and Oregon Public Broadcasting</a> explain how tensions reached this point. And the <a href="https://apple.news/AVK9D7tBSRPOwoa9UbSKgsw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> offers analysis on the legality of this escalation of force by the federal government.</p> <p>And, <a href="https://apple.news/AIuxgSzYPQTSJ2zV1CIkr7g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Smithsonian Magazine</a> brings us a list of scientific breakthroughs that were achieved during quarantine, by researchers mostly working from home.</p>

Two very different environmental plans

<p>Welcome to Apple News Today, a new show from Apple News. In today's episode:</strong></p>President Trump and Joe Biden are offering two different visions for environmental policy. <a href="https://apple.news/AgoQSREttQkmVchHqKTLBEw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> breaks down their plans.</p><p>After a week in which members of the White House came out against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious-diseases expert sat down for interviews with <a href="https://apple.news/Ab_DVpKSPSpuy-tdtbZxTyw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>the Atlantic</em></a> and <a href="https://apple.news/APOWKL7dbRa2TCWlM8v4dlQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>InStyle</em>.</a></p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/A25dRtG6DSoaKb3FgoDlIAA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>The Los Angeles Times</em></a> is out with an investigation into a Qatari prince&rsquo;s California college education.</p> <p> And <a href="https://apple.news/A91tczZ9HSK6tYSJ87Lakiw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR&rsquo;s <em>Planet Money</em></a> makes the case for getting rid of the penny.</p>

The cost of voting in a pandemic

<p>Welcome to Apple News Today, a new show from Apple News. In today's episode:</p><p><a href="https://apple.news/AEJE3GM49RDOGUEFwaflmPw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>USA Today</i> and Columbia Journalism Investigations</a> look at how states and counties are running short on funds to hold elections. </p><p>The city of Asheville, North Carolina, takes a step toward reparations. <a href="https://apple.news/AykHpcaf4RxyEvdWwJlxmHw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>The News & Observer</i></a> has the story. And <a href="https://apple.news/A9BqxnpfJRYSHeHdY0aJnvA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>Business Insider</i></a> tracks how reparations are perceived on a national scale. </p><p>According to <a href="https://apple.news/AfG9gfn8OQ7GRDmB-iDgO7w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>Scientific American</i></a>, humans aren’t the only animals who practice social distancing.</p><p>And <a href="https://apple.news/AYZt0N06_RDiYKtvmnxVWFA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>Condé Nast Traveler</i></a> says Iceland is giving us all permission to scream.</p><br>

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<p>Every weekday morning, hosts Shumita Basu and Duarte Geraldino bring you up to speed on top headlines and discuss some of the most fascinating stories in the news. You can find links to everything mentioned in today’s show right here.</p><br><p>Some of the country’s largest school districts are abandoning plans for in-person classes this fall. <a href="https://apple.news/A0N7DAFwoSbKVT-trrcKdgA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>The Atlantic</i></a> hears from former government officials on what steps could be taken to get students back in class. And <a href="https://apple.news/AYBZ5DvcDTJOLFexriT3Rjw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>Vox</i></a> offers an explainer on the debate behind reopening schools.</p><p>Alabama Republicans voted Tuesday in a runoff election that effectively ended Jeff Sessions’s political career. <a href="https://apple.news/ACsgLUMs8R9aFk1N8OCWUXg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>The Washington Post</i></a> examines the former attorney general’s rise and fall. </p><p>With extra unemployment benefits set to expire in two weeks, <a href="https://apple.news/A7IxFVPazTO6HqErMBD2kQw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>The New Yorker</i></a> looks at how one California town is trying to offset poverty through a universal basic income program. </p><p>And from <a href="https://apple.news/A1WOUyZtyQWmFPGGkgF_Qog?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><i>Bloomberg Businessweek</i></a>, a story about why our dogs won’t be happy when the pandemic is over.</p>