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Demonstrations continued in Portland, Ore., Saturday night over police brutality and racism. State and local officials criticized Trump's use of federal agents to try to quell the protests.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gov. Kate Brown about rising tensions between protesters and federal forces. "The Trump administration needs to stop playing politics with people's lives," Brown says.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with medical ethicist Jessica Flanigan of the University of Richmond about libertarian perspectives on face mask laws.

In wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests, conversations about race in America have a new urgency. Here's how Black parents are having 'the talk' with their children today.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley about the presence of federal troops in Portland and his calls to the Department of Homeland Security to remove them.

Federal law enforcement officers and protestors clashed again overnight in Portland, Oregon. The city's mayor says they are endangering demonstrators.

Civil Rights Leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. NPR's Scott Simon talks with his House colleague, Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to artist Sherri Daye Scott about her grassroots campaign Big Facts, Little Acts, which spreads public health information through art.

The $600 unemployment benefit set to expire this month helped keep families afloat, says Georgetown University's Indivar Dutta-Gupta. Without it, they face serious hardship, and the economy will slow.

Agents are deployed in the Oregon city amid anti-police protests. Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR the tactic is being used to move detainees to a "safe location for questioning."