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Daily Video August 03 2017

Can Republicans and Democrats learn to work together?

Partisan politics in the U.S. Congress has been on the rise since the 1990s.

Daily Video August 03 2017

North Korea continues to conduct major missile tests

President Trump and Japanese President Shinzo Abe spoke by phone on Monday to discuss the growing global threat caused by North Korea. North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday that experts said could reach the western half of the United States, if not the whole country, with a flatter trajectory.

Lesson Plan August 02 2017

Lesson plan: How new inventions help people with disabilities and injuries

For a Google version of this lesson plan, click here. (Note: you will need to make a copy of the do…

Daily Video August 01 2017

Ambitious girls ride the waves in Bangladesh's beach town

In the South Asian country of Bangladesh, poverty is widespread and girls are often married in their early teens. However, at the world's longest beach and Bangladesh's only beach town, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, a group of girl surfers feel empowered when they might otherwise be expected to fulfill traditional roles in the house.

Daily Video July 28 2017

Trump announces major policy change for transgender service members over Twitter

When President Trump tweeted that transgender Americans would no longer be allowed to serve in the military, his Joint Chiefs of Staff in the four branches of the military were unaware that he planned to make the announcement.

Daily Video July 27 2017

All-girls robotics team from Afghanistan competes after initial visa denial

An all-girls team from Afghanistan reached the United States for a robotics competition after having their visas denied twice by American officials. Finally, they were allowed into the country.

Daily Video July 20 2017

America's National Parks: Lessons in STEM from early Native Americans

America the Beautiful is a video series produced by PBS Student Reporting Labs in celebration of the U.S. National Park Service's 100-year anniversary in 2016

Daily Video July 19 2017

America's National Parks: Mammoth archaeological discovery made in Channel Islands National Park

Watch this video about America's National Parks by Student Reporting Labs

Daily Video July 19 2017

A trillion-ton iceberg the size of Delaware broke off the Antarctic Peninsula

An enormous iceberg more than 2000 sq. miles in diameter recently detached from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and floated into the Weddell Sea, located south of the tip of South America.

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Daily Video July 18 2017

The legacy of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel laureate and human rights activist

For decades, Liu Xiaobo was one of the Chinese government's most outspoken critics and advocates for peaceful change and democratization.

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