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Most colleges holding in-person classes aren’t regularly testing students for the coronavirus, data obtained by NPR shows. That could lead to even more cases later this fall, when the semester ends and students head home.https://trib.al/DdQJ39x 

The federal scientist Rick Bright has quit the NIH. "The work of scientists is ignored or denigrated to meet political goals and to advance President Trump's re-election aspirations," his lawyers said in an addendum to his May whistleblower complaint.https://trib.al/xRqBrcp 

There was an 81% increase in COVID-19 tests in D.C. Monday compared to a week ago. "People work in the White House, and those people also shop at my grocery store and are out about town. It feels frankly really scary," said one resident.https://trib.al/iB0ag1a 

Whale researchers normally work in teams, but that’s next to impossible these days. To keep tabs on the elusive and often endangered creatures, researchers have had to get creative. For some, it’s meant adding their spouses and even their pets to the team.https://trib.al/Ehd80fQ 

For many married women, one of South Korea's biggest holidays — Chuseok — traditionally involves visiting their in-laws and spending the time cooking and cleaning. But because of the pandemic, many stayed home this year.https://trib.al/hJBknLZ 

Little Big Town, one of the biggest bands in country music, put on a Tiny Desk quarantine show. And they brought the hits.https://trib.al/xPsImAU 

President Trump, who has continually dismissed the danger of the coronavirus, has received VIP treatment since he tested positive. That includes an antibody cocktail from Regeneron — which fewer than 10 people have received outside of clinical trials.https://trib.al/yQumCHI 

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the white St. Louis couple charged in July with waving firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters, have been indicted by a grand jury, the AP reports.https://trib.al/2TICgBa 

President Trump is "mocking us, the working poor," says Norma, one of the roughly 2 million domestic workers in the U.S. She and her mother were infected with the coronavirus earlier this year. Norma survived. Her mom did not.https://trib.al/HKYVGW7 

NEW: White House adviser Stephen Miller has tested positive for the coronavirus — the latest in a string of nearly 2 dozen positive cases in the last week among close contacts to the White House.https://trib.al/cYfqxIy 

A California district attorney says she will reopen the investigation into the killing of Oscar Grant, a Black man who was fatally shot by a BART officer in 2009 while lying face down on a platform at Fruitvale Station.https://trib.al/Ajr3YPH 

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who has spoken about using IVF to help conceive her 2 daughters, is urging Republican senators to reconsider supporting Amy Coney Barrett over her ties to a group that's publicly opposed some types of fertility treatments.https://trib.al/fLSDzRc 

Since George Floyd's death began nationwide protests, about 60 Confederate monuments have come down. But there have also been formal decisions to protect 28 monuments across the country, NPR finds.https://trib.al/KBXcOPS 

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito took the opportunity on Monday to attack the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, writing that the court's decision in that case "created a problem only it can fix."https://trib.al/C5GX6YQ 

Finalists for the National Book Awards were announced today in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literature in translation, and young people's literature. Winners will be announced Nov. 18. See the full list of finalists here https://trib.al/Dj6u99z 

Stock prices dropped sharply, erasing earlier gains, after President Trump said he was ending negotiations with Democrats on another coronavirus stimulus package until after the election.https://trib.al/nIKTbuI 

"Seven months later, he still won't wear a mask consistently and encourage others to do the same," Michelle Obama says of President Trump. "Instead, he continues to gaslight the American people by acting like this pandemic is not a real threat."https://trib.al/Ialh2ip