Summary
In our news wrap from Monday, December 13, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block New York state's COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers. Sheriff's investigators in Houston, Texas, searched for a gunman, after a drive-by shooting killed one person and wounded at least 13. The Biden administration proposed building 500,000 charging stations nationwide for electric vehicles. A Hong Kong court sentenced media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 13 months in jail. He was charged with promoting a vigil that marked the anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989. Lai is already serving another jail term for participating in pro-democracy protests.
Five Facts
Directions:
Choose one or more of the stories to record the Five Facts questions as well as the focus and media literacy questions below.
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Who
are some of the individuals or groups of people mentioned in the news summary?
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What
stories are covered?
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Where
do some of the stories take place?
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When
did those stories occur?
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Why
did the event(s) take place?
*Bonus:
How
do you think the NewsHour's producers decide which stories make it into the news summary?
Focus Questions
Do you think the Supreme Court made the right decision in allowing New York's vaccine mandate for health workers to stay in place? Explain.
Media literacy
: Did you notice the order of these news stories? With so many important stories, how do the NewsHour's producers decide in which order to put them? Would you change the order in any way? How so?
