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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir on a spacewalk. Photo: NASA Current and former astronauts are speaking out on social media and in interviews in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police violence.Why it matters: Astronauts are NASA's public face and usually avoid politically charged topics in public, but as the agency's astronauts have more direct means of communication to the public, those lines are beginning to blur.Details: Active astronauts Jessica Meir, Victor Glover and others have all publicly posted either explicitly or implicitly supporting the movement. Background: "The day I showed up in Houston, they basically said rule No. 1 was don't become famous," former astronaut Michael López-Alegria, who began his training as an astronaut in 1992, told Axios. "That's clearly not the case anymore."What to watch: NASA's astronaut corps is becoming more diverse, and with that will likely come new conversations — many of them in public — about how the agency's next generation of explorers should engage with the public.Go deeper: Weeks of following George Floyd's killing have put pressure on governments to scale back the use of force police officers can use on civilians and create new oversight for officer conduct.Why it matters: of this scale have not taken place in response to the Black Lives Matter movement since its inception in 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.The Treasury Department and Small Business Administration plan to release the names of businesses that received $150,000 or more in Paycheck Protection Program loans, the .Why it matters: Taxpayers seeking relief from the coronavirus pandemic with hundreds of billions of dollars in PPP loans. Any lack of transparency around where the money went could have made it more difficult to know how well the program worked, last week.Global: Total confirmed cases as of 7 p.m. ET: — Total deaths: — Total recoveries — — .U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 7 p.m. ET: — Total deaths: — Total recoveries: — Total tested: — .Business: in states with increasing coronavirus cases.Transportation: during the coronavirus pandemic.Entertainment: , will require face masks in its movie theaters.Military: who sounded alarm about coronavirus.🛳 Travel: to suspend trips from U.S. ports until Sept. 15.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir on a spacewalk. Photo: NASA Current and former astronauts are speaking out on social media and in interviews in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police violence.Why it matters: Astronauts are NASA's public face and usually avoid politically charged topics in public, but as the agency's astronauts have more direct means of communication to the public, those lines are beginning to blur.Details: Active astronauts Jessica Meir, Victor Glover and others have all publicly posted either explicitly or implicitly supporting the movement....

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