A bill to establish a commission to independently investigate the Capitol insurrection is dividing the GOP, as Politico and the Hill explain. Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 are speaking out. NPR reports on their Congressional testimony calling for reparations and remembrance. The European Union is taking steps toward allowing vaccinated U.S. tourists to visit. The Atlantic looks at why the tourism industry is eager to have Americans back, even if they’re stereotyped as loud and irritable. Seeing people without masks on is messing with our brains. The Wall Street Journal talks to a cognitive scientist about why it can be confusing and surprising when we see what people look like without masks.

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