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Daily Video October 27 2015

Republican outsiders maintain lead in presidential race
In the Republican presidential primary race, poll numbers in the states with the earliest primaries now appear to show candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson running neck-and-neck.
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Daily Video October 26 2015

President Obama says schools should test less
The president and the U.S. Department of Education have called on states to cut back on the number of standardized tests students take.
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Daily Video October 23 2015

Hillary Clinton defends response to 2012 Benghazi attack
Hillary Clinton was in the hot seat in the U.S. Capitol Thursday, testifying before the Select Committee on Benghazi about the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
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Daily Video October 22 2015

Vice President Biden decides not to run for president in 2016
Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not run for the presidency in the 2016 election.
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Daily Video October 21 2015

Fight over high-stakes testing in schools continues
Public debate over the merits of standardized testing is nothing new, but the number of students choosing to opt out of the tests grew over the past year.
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Daily Video October 20 2015

Politics Monday: Biden for president? Why doesn’t anyone want to be House Speaker?
Speculation continued this week over whether Vice President Joe Biden will enter the Democratic race for president and whether Republican Paul Ryan will run for the embattled Speaker of the House position.
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Daily Video October 19 2015

How ISIS steals oil to stay in power
The Islamic State (ISIS) finances much of its military operation through the selling and siphoning off of oil in Iraq and Syria.
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Daily Video October 16 2015

Research reveals ancestors likely slept less, not more
A study from the UCLA Center for Sleep Research debunks the myth that modern humans get less sleep than our ancestors and are thus less healthy.
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Daily Video October 15 2015

Ancient sequoia trees suffering in California drought
California’s four-year drought has killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and has scientists worrying about the region’s giant sequoias.
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Post October 14 2015

First Democratic presidential primary debate: How did the candidates do?
Have your students read the following article and watch some of the highlights from the debate. The…
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