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May 31, 2020
"There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd," former NAACP President Cornell Brooks tells All Things Considered.
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May 31, 2020
The move comes after several Target stores were ransacked and damaged during protests.
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May 31, 2020
As overlapping crises convulsed an anxious nation, Trump sought to cast blame for widespread protests gripping cities on "radical-left anarchists" like Antifa.
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May 31, 2020
Photos show demonstrators and police clashing as anguish and rage swept through cities across the nation in response to George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody.
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May 31, 2020
Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) about the recent protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.
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May 31, 2020
Some members of Congress want to let tech startups access federal stimulus loans. But venture-capital-backed startups aren't like other small businesses — they fail even in good economic times.
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May 31, 2020
The docking came above China and Mongolia as the ISS was traveling at 17,000 mph. It docked 19 hours after the historic launch with NASA astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center.
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May 31, 2020
We want to hear your thoughts about recent high-profile incidents involving harm to black people.
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May 31, 2020
NPR would like to hear your reaction to recent high-profile incidents in which black Americans were killed and the protests that have followed.
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May 31, 2020
Access to tests has improved significantly, and in some places, people can now get tested without having to demonstrate any symptoms. We asked experts how much you can really learn from the result.
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May 31, 2020
COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting older tribal members throughout Indian Country. The deaths of these elders means the loss of ceremonies, stories, language and cultural wisdom.
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May 31, 2020
King has a history of making offensive and racist comments. Now, some Republicans are worried that his district could be in jeopardy of getting picked up by Democrats.
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May 31, 2020
Officials in Minneapolis promised a stronger response to protests over the death of George Floyd as police and demonstrators across the nation continue to clash.
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May 30, 2020
Top officials with the bloc encouraged Trump to rethink his plans to leave the international health agency. Trump's Friday announcement followed weeks of criticisms and threats to pull funding.
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May 30, 2020
The successful SpaceX launch has its roots in two previous administrations, but President Trump credited his own leadership.
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May 30, 2020
The order follows a night of angry protests in Minneapolis and nationwide. As many as 800 personnel could move within four hours at the governor's request, a U.S. official told NPR.
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May 30, 2020
Gov. Tim Walz is fully mobilizing the state's National Guard — "an action that has never been taken in [the guard's] 164-year history" — to prepare for a fifth night of protests.
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May 30, 2020
While President Trump lashes out at Twitter, consensus is growing in Washington to repeal the decades-old law that shields tech platforms from lawsuits. Experts warn about unintended consequences.
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May 30, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal bloc in a 5-4 decision issued late Friday. The lawsuit had argued that the state's limits on attendance discriminated against religion.
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May 30, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal bloc in a 5-4 decision issued late Friday. The lawsuit had argued that the state's limits on attendance discriminated against religion.
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May 30, 2020
Many retail and food workers are losing temporary wage bumps they got during the pandemic. Some say their work hazards are only increasing, while their wage is lower than unemployment benefits.
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May 30, 2020
After an aborted launch attempt on Wednesday, NASA and SpaceX once more set their sights on the space station.
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May 30, 2020
After an aborted launch attempt to the International Space Station on Wednesday, the weather cleared and the launch went ahead on Saturday.
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May 30, 2020
They're not exactly easy questions to answer. In the first case, you must consider motel cleaning regimens and the hazards of driving vs. the risk of sitting next to a sneezy air traveler.
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May 30, 2020
From Trump's tweets to funding issues, the U.S. Postal Service is under pressure as voters are set to turn increasingly toward mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.
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May 30, 2020
As the coronavirus sweeps the nation, 85-year-old Margaret Sullivan watches and records the changes from inside her retirement home in Virginia.
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May 30, 2020
The party has held both Senate seats in the state since the Great Depression, but ahead of a Monday deadline Republicans aren't confident that any of the candidates are assured of winning in November.
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May 30, 2020
With race and ethnicity known for nearly half of cases and 90% of deaths, there's no ignoring the fact that the disease hits some groups harder. NPR analyzed these disparities around the country.
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May 29, 2020
In most cases the demonstrations began peacefully, but as the day unfolded and night fell, they became increasingly violent.
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May 29, 2020
Americans continued to express their grief and outrage in demonstrations across the country, with violence emerging in some cities. A 19-year-old man was killed during Friday's protests in Detroit.
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May 29, 2020
Americans continued to express grief and outrage in a fourth night of protests. Shootings in Detroit and Oakland left a 19-year-old man and a contract security officer for the federal government dead.
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May 29, 2020
Americans continued to express grief and outrage in a fourth night of protests. Shootings in Detroit and Oakland left a 19-year-old man and a contract security officer for the federal government dead.
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May 29, 2020
The department settled for $3 million and offered training for officers in how to restrain people in custody more safely in the 2010 case.
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May 29, 2020
Many but not all out-of-state visitors were told to self-quarantine because of the coronavirus. The Justice Department says that is unconstitutional. Some other states have the same rule.
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May 29, 2020
In a press conference on Friday, the president said he would immediately severe ties — and funding — to the World Health Organization because of its relationship with China.
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May 29, 2020
"Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care," a state commission ruled. It said state health regulators wrongly blocked the St. Louis clinic's renewal in 2019.
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May 29, 2020
Maya Santamaria tells KSTP that Chauvin "had a real short fuse" as an off-duty officer for her club, saying he often pulled out mace and pepper spray when she thought it was unwarranted.
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May 29, 2020
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Tracee Ellis Ross about starring in The High Note, a movie about an over-40 superstar singer navigating the music industry with her assistant, who has her own music dreams.
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May 29, 2020
CDC chief Robert Redfield says that earlier testing for the coronavirus would have been like "looking for a needle in a haystack." But others health experts dispute his assertion.
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May 29, 2020
CDC chief Robert Redfield says that earlier testing for the coronavirus would have been like "looking for a needle in a haystack." But other health experts dispute his assertion.
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May 29, 2020
"It will be so nice to be able to go lie on the grass in a park and have a picnic or to sit at a sidewalk cafe again," says a Paris resident. Restaurants and bars will reopen with restrictions June 2.
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May 29, 2020
Media reports and analysts have questioned the accuracy of Russia's mortality figures for the virus. The city's health department now says 1,561 people died in April due to coronavirus.
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May 29, 2020
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called on the nation to better empathize with the pain of black Americans in the wake of the death of the black man by a white police officer.
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May 29, 2020
A federal official says the White House had not approved the initial version, which included the warning, "The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19."
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May 29, 2020
Dr. Ming Lin was let go in March from a hospital in Bellingham, Wash., after posting criticisms and suggestions on social media. The ACLU is helping him sue for damages and job reinstatement.
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May 29, 2020
The next round of coronavirus aid will be narrowly focused and will not extend federal unemployment assistance, the Senate majority leader says.
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May 29, 2020
Kramer, who died May 27, was an early advocate for aggressive research into the HIV virus. He co-founded both the Gay Men's Health Crisis and the protest group ACT UP. Originally broadcast in 1992.
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May 29, 2020
President Trump said the U.S. would take a number of steps after China's central government asserted more direct authority over the territory, which it had pledged to treat differently.
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May 29, 2020
Former President Barack Obama has responded to the Minneapolis death that has set off protests and drawn national attention, including President Trump's. Read his full statement.
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May 29, 2020
In response to the violent protests in Minneapolis, the president tweets a phrase that goes back to the 1960s, used by a white police chief known for inflaming racial tensions in Miami.
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May 29, 2020
As a low-wage worker, Yesenia Ortiz wishes she would get paid more during the pandemic because of the extra level of risk she is exposed to.
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May 29, 2020
It's not yet clear who shot people in the crowd. The mayor says no officers fired weapons on the demonstrations for the black woman killed by police in her home. Two victims required surgery, he says.
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May 29, 2020
Brazil has the world's second-highest number of COVID-19 cases after the U.S. The rise in cases comes as São Paulo, the state with the highest number of deaths, prepares to ease some restrictions.
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May 29, 2020
"For the seventh day in a row, there are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand," the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
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May 29, 2020
Hong Kong is supposed to be a semi-autonomous enclave of China, "one country, two systems." But China is moving to impose a sweeping national security law on the city, which critics say is illegal.
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May 29, 2020
Protesters stormed a precinct overnight, after another day of protests over the black man's death in custody. Amid the chaos, police briefly arrested a CNN crew, and the president weighed in.
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May 29, 2020
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who planted a knee on the black man's neck, has been detained by state officials. For days a video of the incident has elicited fury across the country.
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May 29, 2020
A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people.
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May 29, 2020
View our map and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing the fastest and which are leveling off.
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May 29, 2020
A new study finds rising temperatures and climate-driven disasters are helping transform the very makeup of the world's forests. This has major implications for biodiversity and more warming.
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May 29, 2020
The president was responding to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. He said he will send in the National Guard, adding: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."
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May 29, 2020
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday will hear the government's appeal for a retrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
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May 29, 2020
Relaxed regulations in response to the pandemic means more access to addiction treatment medications. But recovery programs are accepting fewer people, and the danger of overdose remains high.
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May 29, 2020
Wearing a mask has become political as some state officials have faced backlash for mandating mask use during the coronavirus pandemic.
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May 29, 2020
The legal cases argue that online classes don't have the same value as on-campus ones.
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May 29, 2020
The Army plans to resume large-scale combat training in the Mojave Desert in a few weeks, after a three-month hiatus. A recent simulation showed just how that will work with the coronavirus spread.
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May 29, 2020
Even as many other states expand mail-in voting due to the pandemic, Texas officials say they may prosecute voters who ask for an absentee ballot because they're scared of going to the polls.
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May 29, 2020
The new guidance amounts to a midyear open-enrollment period and applies to firms that buy health insurance to cover their workers as well as to those that self-insure — paying claims on their own.
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May 28, 2020
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he will defend the right to protest over George Floyd's death but urges peaceful demonstrations, saying, "It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change."
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May 28, 2020
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he will defend the right to protest over George Floyd's death but urges peaceful demonstrations, saying, "It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change."
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May 28, 2020
Illinois is joining many other Midwest states in reopening some retail shops, restaurants, salons and other businesses Friday. The mayor is delaying until the middle of next week.
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May 28, 2020
We don't always behave the way economic models say we will. We don't save enough for retirement. We give money to charity. This week, why we act in ways that go against our "rational" self-interest.
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May 28, 2020
More than 41% of jobs in the state's food and accommodation industry have been lost. The overall levels are comparable to the Great Depression, says David Schmidt, a state economist.
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May 28, 2020
Nearly 41% of jobs in the state's food and accommodation industry have been lost. The overall levels are comparable to the Great Depression, says David Schmidt, a state economist.
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May 28, 2020
Here are some key points about what the latest moves by Beijing and Washington may mean for Hong Kong.
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May 28, 2020
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies days after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets.
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May 28, 2020
All participants who were set to run in the event initially slated for April 20 and later pushed back to September 14 will have the opportunity to participate in an online alternative.
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May 28, 2020
Richard Collins III was given the honorary promotion to first lieutenant, three years after he was stabbed to death on the campus of University of Maryland in 2017.
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May 28, 2020
The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has spent weeks under strict restrictions. But the mayor says up to 400,000 people will likely return to their jobs soon — with some conditions.
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May 28, 2020
Friends and loved ones say George Floyd, who died after an encounter with four Minneapolis police officers Monday, was an athlete, a former rapper and someone who was fun to be around.
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May 28, 2020
The World Food Programme estimates that the number of people experiencing severe food insecurity in this area, where the coronavirus is spreading quickly, could quadruple in 2020.
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May 28, 2020
"You don't want to wear a mask — fine," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says. "But you don't have a right to then go into that store if that store owner doesn't want you to."
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May 28, 2020
They told lawmakers at a congressional hearing Thursday that federal agencies reacted swiftly, giving updated guidelines to employers at hospitals, nursing homes, meat-packing plants and warehouses.
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May 28, 2020
Democrats in Pennsylvania's House say they were kept in the dark for a week when a Republican colleague, who had been working in the State Capitol, tested positive for the coronavirus.
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May 28, 2020
Time magazine reporter W.J. Hennigan embedded with workers responsible for caring for the bodies of some 20,000 New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19. "It's a haunting thing," he says.
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May 28, 2020
Tests for the immune response to the coronavirus are revealing thousands of people who were infected but never got severely ill. The findings suggest the virus is less deadly than it first appeared.
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May 28, 2020
The Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2020, which includes the late Kobe Bryant, could now be pushed to next spring, due to the spread of the virus.
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May 28, 2020
The Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2020, which includes the late Kobe Bryant, is now slated to be honored next spring, the Hall of Fame's chairman tells ESPN.
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May 28, 2020
In a reverse decision, the judges say that barber Karl Manke, who refused to close his shop in defiance of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's shutdown order, must shutter.
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May 28, 2020
As more healthcare moves to online and telemedicine, some patients seeking abortions using pills are running into obstacles.
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May 28, 2020
The Trump administration issued tough export rules this month, which analysts say could spell a death knell for the company's worldwide mobile network ambitions.
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May 28, 2020
With its health-care system already in dire condition, conflict-ridden Yemen faces what Doctors Without Borders is calling a potential "catastrophe" as COVID-19 spreads.
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May 28, 2020
Cyprus "is committed to taking care of all travelers who test positive during their stay, as well as their families and close contacts," the government says.
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May 28, 2020
Cyprus "is committed to taking care of all travelers who test positive during their stay, as well as their families and close contacts," the government says.
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May 28, 2020
Prosecutors say a probe is underway and federal charges are possible. The announcement comes one day after protests erupted for a second night over the circumstances of the unarmed black man's death.
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May 28, 2020
Amazon has hired 175,000 temporary workers to deal with spike in online shopping during the pandemic. Now it's offering most of them permanent jobs.
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May 28, 2020
More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since coronavirus shutdowns began. Last week, an additional 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits.
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May 28, 2020
More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since coronavirus shutdowns began. Last week, an additional 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits.
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May 28, 2020
Most high school proms have been cancelled due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, photojournalists gave these seniors a chance to dress up and get their prom photos taken.
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May 28, 2020
Most high school proms have been canceled because of the pandemic. Nevertheless, photojournalists gave these seniors a chance to dress up and get their prom photos taken.
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