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House of Representatives votes on U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill in Washington

Daily News Lesson July 09 2025

House gives Trump a win as his big tax bill overcomes weeks of tense negotiations

"... this bill really could drive the next political cycle entirely on its own." —Lisa Desjardins, correspondent for PBS News Hour

U.S. Senator Booker delivers speech protesting Trump administration policies from the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington

Daily News Lesson April 07 2025

Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech protesting Trump

Learn why Booker decided to speak for so long and what exactly he was protesting

Ida B. Wells, the daughter of two formerly enslaved people, journalist and civil rights leader

Daily News Lesson March 26 2025

A look inside the U.S. Mint’s creation of a quarter celebrating Ida B. Wells

Learn more about the American Women quarters program and discuss the legacy of Ida B. Wells

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Department of Education Staff Layoffs

Daily News Lesson March 21 2025

What's next for the Department of Education after Trump begins effort to eliminate it

Learn what the Department of Education does and what shutting it down would mean for the U.S.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress

Daily News Lesson March 07 2025

House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech

Learn about Green's protest and what it means to censure a lawmaker.

Student Voices July 07 2020

What "back to normal" means for this Chinese student

In this student voice feature, Zhiming Gu reports from China about life with few cases of COVID-19 but the ever-present danger of return.

LGBTQ activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case in Washington

Daily Video June 16 2020

How far does the Supreme Court's ruling go to protect LGBTQ rights?

In this lesson plan, discuss the impact of the ruling by the Supreme Court on the rights of gay and transgender employees

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Daily Video June 10 2020

Inequality in education funding

In this lesson plan, learn about one state's attempts to remedy an alarming gap between the funding of its wealthiest and poorest school districts.

A woman reacts after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso

Daily Video August 05 2019

What do El Paso, Dayton gun massacres say about America?

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to talk with your students about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which took place over the weekend.

CASTLE ROCK, CO - OCTOBER 28: Curt Cook, 55, of Denver waves to

Daily Video July 17 2019

Super Civics 2020: How to get along with our political opposites

In this NewsHour Extra lesson plan, learn how Americans are struggling to approach opposing political opinions with civility instead of contempt and what can be done to fix the problem.

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