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The Best of the Week’s News:

• Millions of renters face eviction if Congress doesn’t act by Saturday. Some landlords illegally initiated eviction proceedings even before the moratorium expired. (Video) (ABC, NYT)
   
• The constitutional crisis deepens as Oregon state lawmakers demand that the federal government withdraw its shadowy agents from Portland. Judge blocks federal agents from arresting legal observers. (PBS, KVAL, Nation, AP)
   
• Thousands of workers walked off the job, Monday as part of the Strike for Black Lives. (Yahoo)
   
• Nationwide testing backlogs may be hiding the true spread of COVID-19, experts say. What looks like a plateau could instead be a maxed-out system. (NYT)
   
• Jobless claims rise as the fate of the $600/week enhanced unemployment benefit remains undecided. (CNBC)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• More than 40% of staff at a massive ICE detention facility have tested positive for COVID-19. (USA Today)
   
• OSHA has only issued one citation for a COVID safety violation and unions are demanding to know why the agency isn’t stepping up. (CNBC)
   
• An in-depth investigation into everything that’s wrong with Florida’s COVID-19 data. (COVID-19 Tracking Project)
   
• In a historic win for tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation because Congress never revoked the treaty that created it. (ICT, SCOTUS Blog)
   
• The death of Sha-asia Washington, a 26-year-old Brooklyn woman who died after a C-section is reviving urgent concerns about maternity care for Black women. (The City)
   
• Indigenous-led research reveals new secrets about the mysterious Spirt Bears of British Columbia. (NYT/Flickr)

The Best of the Week’s News

• “My Body is a Confederate Monument” (NYT)
   
• The virus gets the upper hand as the U.S. enters a devastating new phase of the pandemic. (Atlantic)
   
• How Arizona lost control of its coronavirus epidemic. (WaPo) 
   
• Survivors of three meatpackers who died of COVID are suing Tyson Foods, alleging the company lied to keep them on the job. (Des Moines Register)
   
• Colorado is reinvestigating the 2019 police killing of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. (AP, Elle)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• A seamstress in a Michael Kors factory in Cambodia served two months in prison for denouncing the covid risks in her workplace. (Buzzfeed)
   
• Dockworkers will shut down West Coast ports on Juneteenth, in memory of George Floyd. (The Nation)
   
• New research confirms that jails and prisons are incubators that spread coronavirus to the larger community. (WaPo)
   
• Coronavirus stalks farm workers in California. (LA Times)
   
• As coronavirus tightens its grip on Brazil, the country’s far-right president flirts with a military coup. (NYT)
   
• Trump’s Department of the Interior argued that migratory birds are a menace to humanity. (Bloomberg Law) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Employers have a legal duty to protect their workers from hazards including coronavirus, but Trump’s OSHA refuses to enforce the law. (TNR)
   
• Harry Sentoso took a job at Amazon’s warehouse in Irvine to bank some quick cash before retirement, 2 weeks later he was dead of COVID-19. (LA Times)
   
• George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer, was a beloved member of his community. (Buzzfeed)
   
• How Wendi C. Thomas built MLK50, a non-profit newsroom dedicated to the low-wage workers of Memphis. (NYT)
   
• A CNN camera crew was arrested live on the air in Minneapolis as they covered the aftermath of last night’s protests against the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. (CNN)