The FBI has concluded its investigation into a noose that was found in the garage stall of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace at the Talladega Superspeedway and found that he was not the target of a hate crime and that it was a garage rope pull that was there since October 2019. Cindy Boren, sports reporter at the Washington Post, joins us for more on the FBI’s investigation.




Next, Florida’s party and tourism fueled economy is contributing to a rise in coronavirus cases and it has all the makings of possibly being the next large epicenter. The demographics are also changing, more people in their 20s and 30s are contracting the virus and things could also get complicated when President Trump takes the convention there in August. Francisco Alvarado, contributor to the Daily Beast, joins us for the rising numbers in Florida.




Finally, it’s not just you… you are hearing a ton of fireworks going off at night. While we are getting closer to the 4th of July and we usually hear an increase of fireworks leading up to the big day, there has been an increase in reports in New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and the Bay Area of people complaining about the loud bangs for weeks. Jaweed Kaleem, national correspondent at the LA Times, joins us why we are hearing fireworks more frequently across the U.S.

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