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"I feel personally convicted as a white pastor in a predominately white congregation to speak passionately about race in the church," says pastor Angela Denker.

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How are militias recruiting new members?

"They point to protests and to violence and say, 'Hey look, this is the time, you need to protect yourself,' playing on fears people have," says reporter Heath Druzin.

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Incarcerated firefighters make up a significant portion of the crews fighting the wildfires in California. But formerly incarcerated firefighter Rasheed Lockheart wonders: "Why can't our service and our time at these fire camps be our academy? We want equality in pay and the same opportunities as everybody else."

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"I find writing very immersive and as I write in my mind I have some notion of how I'll say the lines when we do our first take. All the characters I write, I somehow embody," says writer and showrunner Michaela Coel.

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Hurricane Laura surges through the southern U.S., while sports teams strike over a police shooting in Kenosha, WI. TikTok continues to be a sore spot for China and U.S. relations. And Japanese Prime Minister resigns, citing poor health.

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"Katrina seems much less like an isolated incident than a harbinger for what 21st century America is," historian Andy Horowitz says.

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"It's always interesting who in America we frame as having the ability to fully enact this Second Amendment right [to defend their home]," sociologist Rashawn Ray says.

Plus, we start the show with an update on the latest from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Protests broke out after police in Kenosha shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, several times while his back was turned.

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"We are constantly dismissed at every level of the justice system." Grace Bulltail told us about her family's search to find answers around the death of her niece, Kaysera Stops Pretty Places.

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"The animating force between Republicans and Democrats isn't partisanship but negative partisanship," journalist McKay Coppins says.

We talked with two young conservatives and McKay Coppins about the state of the GOP.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. The U.S. Postal Service weighs some big changes. A Russian opposition leader is possibly poisoned, Iran faces new sanctions and a coup changes Mali.

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