National Geographic looks at how the number of Supreme Court seats has changed throughout history. And Politico Magazine explains how Republicans have led efforts to change the number of justices on state Supreme Courts. Stat reports that two presidents of historically Black universities who encouraged their communities to participate in coronavirus vaccine trails were immediately met with backlash. And ProPublica has the story of a Louisiana hospital that sent Black COVID-19 patients home to die. The L.A. Times is out with a piece about incarcerated people in prison factories who were kept working during the pandemic, sometimes manufacturing essential items like masks and hand sanitizer. Time discusses a UK-based study into the ability of dogs to detect the coronavirus.

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