Memorial Day weekend at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, N.Y. As the pandemic continues, says Harvard's Dr. Ashish Jha, mask wearing, social distancing and robust strategies of testing and contact tracing will be even more important. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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Amy Coooper was captured on video on Monday calling the police on a man who says he asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York's Central Park. Christian Cooper via Facebook/Screen shot by NPR hide caption
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, shown here in February, decried the man's death, saying "all I can come back to is that he should not have died. What we saw was horrible â completely and utterly messed up." Steve Karnowski/AP hide caption
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Glynn County Courthouse on a recent Saturday in May to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed in February in Brunswick, Ga. Emma Hurt/WABE hide caption
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For the first time, Twitter has directed users to a fact check of a tweet by President Trump. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
With physician offices not seeing patients with COVID-type symptoms in April, Timothy Regan said he had little choice when Denver Health directed him first to the urgent care, then to its ER. "I felt bad, but I had been dealing with it for a while," he says. Ethan Welty for KHN hide caption
Health care workers hold a placard that says From Heroes to Zeroes during a protest against hospital under-staffing and insufficient personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses treating COVID-19 patients amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protest took place outside Saint Joseph Medical Center hospital in Burbank, Calif. on May 19. Ronen Tivony/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption
Workers prepare takeout orders in Houston on May 1. For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Cathy Cody is owner/operator of No Ifs Ands Or Butts About It Janitorial Services & More, LLC in Albany, Ga. Jason Cabatit/JCabatit Photography hide caption
Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., cleans his desk during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing earlier this month. Greg Nash/AP hide caption
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., leaves after a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on May 12. Win McNamee/AP hide caption
Candidate Donald Trump makes a dramatic entrance on the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. His campaign hopes to replicate the scale of that event to demonstrate a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"In many ways I appear very good at being social," says comic Hannah Gadsby. "But it's an incredibly exhausting process for me." She found her autism spectrum diagnosis in 2016 helped put her experience into perspective. Ali Goldstein/Netflix hide caption
President Trump delivers remarks on lowering insulin costs for seniors with diabetes on Thursday at the White House. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Keri Belcher, who has worked in the oil and gas industry, says she's considering switching careers — even if it means less time outdoors, which is what attracted her to geology in the first place. Peter Flaig hide caption
