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News Wrap: Members of Congress share tributes to John Lewis

PBS, 21 Jul 2020
In our news wrap Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives honored the late John Lewis -- the man that many referred to as the “conscience of the Congress.” The Georgia Democrat and renowned civil rights leader died Friday at age 80. Also, the United Arab Emirates launched the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission with a spacecraft bound for Mars. The unmanned orbiter blasted off from Japan.

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