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Metropolitan Police Department officers are shown in this video screen capture, just before they arrest two pro-life demonstrators with Students for Life of America in Northeast D.C. on August 1, 2020. The demonstrators were chalking the public sidewalk Saturday morning, an act an officer in the video said violated a law against defacing public property. For their part, the demonstrators claim they have done sidewalk chalkings every Saturday for the past few weeks without incident, and that the arrest is in violation of their free-speech rights. (Video courtesy of Students for Life of America)

D.C. police stop 'Black Preborn Lives Matter' street painting, arrest two protesters

Muslim pilgrims pray on top of the rocky hill known as Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Only about 1,000 pilgrims will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage this year due to the virus pandemic. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

Final days of hajj and Eid festival impacted by coronavirus

A pigeon flies over the site of the Grand Mosque that is empty due to the coronavirus prevention procedures, on the first day of the annual hajj that normally draws millions of faithful, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A unique and scaled-down hajj started on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Pilgrims in Mecca pray on peak day of hajj in shadow of the coronavirus

A mourner pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the state capital, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

John Lewis' funeral set for Atlanta church that MLK once led

Very different, symbolic hajj in Saudi Arabia amid the coronavirus

Vice President Mike Pence, center, gestures as he speaks during a news conference with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, left, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Miami. Pence was in Florida to mark the beginning of Phase III trials for a coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Mike Pence to visit Raleigh in push for schools to reopen

In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Philanthropist and Co-Chairman of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates gestures as he speaks to the audience during the Global Fund to Fight AIDS event at the Lyon's congress hall, central France. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Bill Gates: 'Benefits outweigh the costs' of getting young kids back in school

A study from LifeWay Research found that 71% of churches led by mainline Protestant or evangelical ministers met for in-person worship as recently as July 19. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

71% of churches meeting for in-person worship, study finds

In this June 1, 2020, file photo, Kristina Washington, special education staff member at Desert Heights Preparatory Academy, walks past a series of desks and chairs at the school in Phoenix, returning to her classroom for only the second time since the coronavirus outbreak closed schools. Arizona educators are planning how public schools will reopen in the coming school year amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic, and some districts already have decided that changes will include limiting what days students will be at school. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

D.C.-area private schools craft plans for reopening

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Ohio minister says county law forces her to perform same-sex weddings

In this July 13, 2020, file photo, a chain-link fence lock is seen on a gate at a closed Ranchito Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. States are furloughing workers, borrowing billions, delaying construction projects and reducing aid to local governments and schools as ways to cope in response to revenue drops that are expected to top 20% in some states, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Trump officials focused on how, and not whether, schools reopen

In this March 4, 2015, file photo, then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a memorial service in South Bend, Ind. James Grein alleged Thursday. A new lawsuit filed in a New Jersey court accuses McCarrick of managing a "sex cabal" among seminarians, altar boys and priests at a New Jersey beach house in the 1980s.
(Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, Pool, File) **FILE**

Ex-cardinal McCarrick accused of running child sex ring out of beach house

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Education on July 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

CDC director: 'Absolutely' comfortable with grandkids returning to school

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a coronavirus briefing with South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Mike Pence 'wouldn't hesitate' to send own kids back to school following coronavirus protocols

A teacher holds up a sign while driving by the Orange County Public Schools headquarters as educators protest in a car parade around the administration center in downtown Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 7, 2020. OCPS teachers are protesting the decision by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state education commissioner mandating that all public schools open in August despite the spike in coronavirus cases in Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) ** FILE **

Head of Florida teachers union says teachers might not show if schools reopen

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware, July 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Biden: Schools should ramp up 'Islamic faith' studies, Muslims must 'mobilize' against Trump

In this May 14, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday, July 17, 2020, that most counties will start the school year online due to soaring coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, but counties that have seen little of the virus, mostly towns and rural communities in California's north and east, can bring students and teachers back to campus. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Church sues California Gov. Gavin Newsom over ban against at-home Bible studies

In this file photo taken on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the Rev. John Koletas leaves Grace Baptist Church in Troy, N.Y., where he presides. The upstate New York pastor, who supports gun ownership rights, says he plans to raffle a legal AR-15 rifle during an upcoming Sunday service. (AP Photo/The Albany Times Union, Lori Van Buren) ** FILE **

BLM protesters target upstate New York church based on internet image of racism

In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump points as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump blames Democrats for violence in cities, warns they will cancel religion

Faith leaders oppose resumption of federal executions

In this Aug. 26, 2018, file photo, people gather to protest at the site of the former Tuam home for unmarried mothers in County Galway, Ireland. The Vatican has indicated its support for a campaign to exhume the bodies of hundreds of babies who were buried on the grounds of a Catholic-run Irish home for unwed mothers to give them a proper Christian burial. (Niall Carson/PA via AP, file)

Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home

In this Jan. 27, 2007, file photo, the Rev. C.T. Vivian uses an intercom with the Rev. James Lawson on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to discuss the experiences they encountered in 1961 as Freedom Riders, a group of college students who defied segregation on interstate buses across the American South. The Rev. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, has died at home in Atlanta of natural causes Friday morning, July 17, 2020, his friend and business partner Don Rivers confirmed to The Associated Press. Vivian was 95. (Lavondia Majors/The Tennessean via AP)

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95

Rows of school buses are parked at their terminal, Friday, July 10, 2020, in Zelienople, Pa. Pennsylvania schools are working on how they will safely transport students this fall, but one idea that won't be part of the plan is to install plastic barriers around school bus drivers. The state Transportation Department rejected that idea recently, saying there wasn't evidence it'll make anyone safer. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Lack of drivers, concerns over crowded buses complicate attempts to open schools

Congregants kneel and observe social distancing while listening to Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez celebrate Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 7, 2020. A religious freedom law firm with ties to President Donald Trump says it will sue California over its recent ban on singing or chanting in the church to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

California churches sue for constitutional right to sing

Tom Alexander holds a cross as he prays prior to rulings outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The Supreme Court is siding with two Catholic schools in a ruling that underscores that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can't sue for employment discrimination. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Catholic schools prepare to reopen

The Supreme Court building is photographed early Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Supreme Court to hear Georgia Gwinnet College case about religion, free speech

A statue of the Virgin Mary was vandalized at St. Peter's Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 12, 2020. (Image: CBS-4 Boston video screenshot)

Anti-Christian crimes ignored by major networks, media watchdog says

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo removes a mask as he holds a news conference to announce the opening of a bicycle and pedestrian path across the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Tarrytown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Gov. Andrew Cuomo: N.Y. schools will get green light or red light in August

Supreme Court future becomes pivotal issue in Senate races

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Education building Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Betsy DeVos: Nothing in data suggests going back to school is dangerous for kids

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