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FILE PHOTO: A Fox News channel sign is seen on a television vehicle outside the News Corporation building in New York City, in New York
Daily News Lesson April 29 2021

How misinformation is used to amplify and strengthen ideology
Discuss why correcting disinformation can have less of an impact than disinformation itself
FILE PHOTO: A person holds census information at an event where U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York City
Daily News Lesson April 27 2021

How the 2020 census affects balance of power in Congress
Discuss the ways the census affects political outcomes, and look into the results of the census on the official site
FILE PHOTO: A person holds census information at an event where U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York City
Daily News Lesson April 27 2021

How the 2020 census affects Washington’s balance of power
Discuss the ways the census affects political outcomes, and look into the results of the census on the official site
Arsenal fans protest against owner after failed launch of a European Super League
Daily News Lesson April 26 2021

Plans for European soccer ‘Super League’ backfire on team owners
Learn why an attempt to create an international super-league failed
Discarded face masks in Wampatuck State Park Hingham. Part of a larger issue about medical trash on Tuesday April 13, 2021 Greg
Daily News Lesson April 23 2021

How pandemic pollution contributes to plastic problem
Learn about how single-use plastics are piling up as a result of the pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Israeli teens get COVID-19 vaccine
Daily News Lesson April 21 2021

What are my chances of hospitalization even after being fully vaccinated?
Explore the challenges doctors and other officials face in getting everyone vaccinated.
News conference after the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis Minnesota
Daily News Lesson April 20 2021

George Floyd’s family vows to ‘keep fighting’ for just policing after Chauvin verdict
Watch George Floyd's family react to Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict and discuss what the verdict means for policing going forward
Mass Shooting At Indianapolis FedEx Facility Leaves Eight Dead
Daily News Lesson April 20 2021

Sikhs reflect on targeted attacks after FedEx shooting
Learn the names and stories of the victims of a recent shooting in Indianapolis, and explore how the shooter was able to obtain firearms despite being a known threat
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity makes its first flight
Daily News Lesson April 20 2021

Ingenuity’s flight on Mars rings in a new era of aviation
Watch the first remote controlled flight on another planet.
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Daily News Lesson April 19 2021

Brooks & Capehart on police shootings and Afghanistan
Discuss the roles of US police and the military at home and abroad.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona takes part in a briefing at the White House in Washington
Daily News Lesson April 15 2021

How the U.S. plans to address educational inequities, teacher burnout and school shootings
Hear from the secretary of education about the future of education post-COVID
U.S. military advisers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade at an Afghan National Army base in Maidan Wardak province
Daily News Lesson April 15 2021

Will the withdrawal of U.S. troops enable the Taliban? Three Afghanistan experts weigh in
Discuss why the U.S. military has stayed for decades in Afghanistan.
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