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June was a good month for job creation, according to the new Labor Department report. Employers added 288,000 positions to payrolls and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent.

Samuel Gbarzeki is one of the many Liberians who stop by the Daily Talk blackboard to check out the news. The English professor has a lot to say about the latest headlines.

The event was recently moved from North Carolina over a dispute about safety precautions such as face coverings and crowd limits.

Alabama extended its health orders in response to the jump in coronavirus infections. But State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris says officials have had trouble enforcing the orders already in place.

Teju Cole's debut novel, Open City, follows Julius, a half-Nigerian and half-German doctor, as he wanders the streets of New York. Julius struggles to understand his identity as an immigrant, an experience the author himself is familiar with.

Gregory Porter, Brad Mehldau and Chris Potter all appear in this 18-musician Tiny Desk quarantine concert, organized by Snarky Puppy's Michael League.

In Europe's most densely populated city of Paris, where there have been two long lockdowns because of the cornavirus, a beloved river is helping many people get through it all.

The United States has surpassed 250,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The Robin Hood anti-poverty charity in New York City, for example, says it's seeing a new boost in donations this week. In some cases, donors said the money came from their GameStop stock profits.

We meet two followers of the Reddit thread WallStreetbets, who helped push stock of struggling retailer GameStop to new heights.