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A man confessed to attacking a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, firing more than 80 rounds into a crowd of people. Seven were killed and dozens more injured.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Arizona this week. The DOJ is targeting the state's recent elections law that requires voters to provide proof of citizenship.

Meanwhile, mass resignations in parliament prompted embattled U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce his resignation.

WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in a Russian court to drug possession on Thursday. She's been detained since February after she was caught with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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Kids as young as six months are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

But millions of Americans are worried about the future of both now that Roe's been overturned.

More than half of all U.S. abortions are medically induced through a two-pill regimen that doesn't involve surgery.

The legal landscape around that process already involved a patchwork of different state and local policies. But now? It's more confusing than ever.

And that confusion extends to the future of birth control, particularly Plan B and IUDs. There's evidence some Americans are stockpiling both abortion pills and emergency contraception. Meanwhile, demand has surged for overseas abortion pills.

We discuss the future of contraception, abortion pills and their efficacy and safety.

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Kids as young as six months are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have authorized both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for use in young kids.

Meanwhile, the country continues to feel the effects of the omicron and its subvariants. BA.4 and BA.5 now account for over half of new COVID infections.

We answer your questions about vaccinating young kids and navigating these new variants in this month's installment of Vaccination Nation.

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America wouldn't be the country it is today without its 27 constitutional amendments.

It was these later additions to the founding document that ended slavery in the U.S. and granted Americans the right to bear arms.

It also protected the right for a show like ours to exist—and gave us our name—1A, after the First Amendment.

But the last time a new one was added was 30 years ago.

We hear from the person who got the 27th amendment ratified. And discuss the push to add a 28th.

This conversation is part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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America's relationship with its national anthem is complicated. Author Mark Clague says it both "echoes the past and gives voice to our present."

Clague is an author and musicologist. His new book on the history of Francis Scott Key's most famous work is called "O Say Can You Hear."

But, Joseph Horowitz, our guide for this episode says America's national anthem is controversial today for three main reasons.

Davone Tines, who also joins us for the conversation, has proposed one solution: replace it with "Lift Every Voice and Sing." This song was composed around 1900 by the brothers James Weldon and R. Rosamond Johnson. Beginning around World War I, it became known as the "Black national anthem."

Whether it is on this day, or those other days when hope and history rhymes, Americans will take to their feet and sing that their flag is still there.

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Cristela Alonzo is one of only a few Latinos with a Netflix comedy special. When her first premiered in 2017, she didn't hold back on her dislike for former President Donald Trump or her identity as a Mexican-American in South Texas.

Now, she's back for her second special, "Middle Classy." And she's bringing her activism with her, opening up the special with cameos from civil rights leader Dolores Huerta and Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.

She shares with us what it's like being able to finally afford to take care of herself and the importance of therapy despite the stigma among her Latino family.

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The movie "ELVIS" tells the life story of Elvis Presley, one of the most famous musicians of the 20th century. Born into poverty in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley rose to stardom as a teenager in the 1950s. His style and sound were modeled largely after the Black musicians he listened to as a kid and adult.

Presley is known as 'the King of Rock and Roll,' but his legacy is complicated. He earned fame and fortune by copying those Black artists who couldn't reach the same level of success because of the color of their skin.

Along with the new film comes a new soundtrack featuring a bevy of top recording artists.

The 1A Record Club listens to the "ELVIS" soundtrack and discusses the rocker's legacy.

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The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that established a constitutional right to abortion. The decision could lead to abortion bans in half of U.S. states.

In response, states like California are moving to amend their constitutions to include abortion rights. Now, citizens and lawmakers are thinking about what defines a constitutional right and how different interpretations of the constitutions affect those rights.

We talk about changing the Constitution and what comes next after the reversal of Roe.

This conversation is part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Come November, voters will likely decide on more than 100 ballot measures across the nation, according to a database from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Ballot measures let citizens bypass their elected officials to make direct change. They decide issues ranging from Medicaid expansion and recreational marijuana in South Dakota to digital privacy in Montana.

But so far this year, lawmakers have proposed hundreds of tweaks to the measure processes in their states or cities, according to Ballotpedia.

Critics say these changes attempt to reign in the ballot measure and curtail direct democracy.

We talk about how the ballot measure furthers democracy, how it's imperfect, and what citizens are pushing for.

This conversation is part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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President Biden signed the most significant bipartisan gun legislation in decades into law over the weekend. It comes after last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.

The bill includes funding for mental health services and school security. Lawmakers also say it'll close what's known as "the boyfriend loophole." That means dating partners convicted of domestic abuse will no longer be able to purchase firearms, rather than just spouses and former spouses.

We discuss how far the bill goes to close the loophole and what is still left to be done when it comes to intimate partner homicide involving a gun.

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