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The Rhode Island senator said he doesn't expect his voice is enough to change Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's mind on the issue of stepping down from the nation's highest court while Democrats maintain power.

Family medicine doctor Katherine Gergen Barnett joined Boston Public Radio to go over the latest COVID-19 developments and take listener calls.

Medvedow said she and other Boston museum directors are weighing whether to reimpose mask rules — but not closing.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III spoke about Moses’s legacy in the wake of his death on Sunday.

GBH News analyst Charlie Sennott says Afghans are dedicated to keep daily life normal in Kabul, despite "tremendous uncertainty" and rising casualties.

"Things start with a thought, then maybe go to a whisper, then a word, then a loud statement, then an act," Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said about the rise of hate crimes.

National security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses millions of undocumented immigrants no longer eligible for bond hearings, according to ICE. Plus, the misinformation/psychological warfare at play in the Israel-Iran war.Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Mass, discusses a federal court certifying a nationwide class action protecting babies from Trump's birthright citizenship order, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaking out.Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys frontman, joins to discuss their new album "For the People," and his repeated warnings that the Trump administration is engaging in a class war.David Folkenflik, NPR media correspondent, on the rescission efforts in Washington to pull funding for foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Farmers Michael Montuori of Allandale Farm and Danielle Andrews of The Food Project join to discuss urban farming, connecting communities to their food sources, and impacts of federal funding cuts to food benefits.

Today:Ken Casey, co-founder of the Dropkick Murphys, zooms into the show to discuss their new album "For the People" and the band's decades-long history of showing up and speaking out.And, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik joins for a quick update on the efforts to claw back millions from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

BPR Full Show 7/15: Fall River Mayor & The Fire

Today:In Fall River, we’re still learning about all that went wrong in the assisted living-factility fire that left nine dead over the weekend. Dozens were injured. We begin the show with Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan on the latest.And, Ed Kelly, President of the International Association of Fire Fighters, calls in – as firefighters in Fall River say they didn’t have the resources to adequately respond.

Today: Andrea Cabral and Shirley Leung fill in for Jim and Margery.MIT economist Jon Gruber discusses the impacts of Trump's spending bill: massive tax cuts for the wealthy, funded by kicking poor people off of health care.And, Michael Curry joins us remotely from the national NAACP Convention. Curry sits on the NAACP's national board of directors.