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Maryam Alwan, Mahmoud Khalil, and Layla Saliba speak to members of media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City
Daily News Lesson March 11 2025

Trump admin targets Palestinian student who organized on-campus protests of Gaza war

Learn about Mahmoud Khalil's arrest and its possibly alarming implications
Immigrant rights advocacy volunteers patrol streets for ICE activity in Los Angeles
Daily News Lesson March 11 2025

Schools brace for immigration arrests after Trump administration changes ICE policy

Learn about Trump's new immigration policy and how students, parents and teachers are responding.
Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip
Daily News Lesson January 28 2025

200,000 displaced Palestinians walk home to northern Gaza after 15 months of war

Gazans were ordered to move south early in the war
The jury in Hunter Biden's trial on criminal gun charges finds him guilty on all three counts, in Wilmington
Daily News Lesson June 12 2024

Hunter Biden convicted of felonies related to gun purchase

Learn about the conviction of the president's son
Brittney Griner holds a news conference ahead of return to court with Phoenix Mercury
Daily News Lesson May 08 2024

WNBA star Brittney Griner describes imprisonment in Russia

Hear from an WNBA star about her time in Russian prison and what came after
People walk past a "Practice Random Acts of Kindness" sign in Times Square Manhattan, New York
Daily News Lesson December 07 2023

The science behind random acts of kindness

Why doing good makes us feel good
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Daily News Lesson August 02 2023

Understanding the high cost of staying in touch for the incarcerated
Families of incarcerated people in the U.S. spend as much as $500 a month to keep in touch with loved ones
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Daily News Lesson July 31 2023

Lobster industry says regulations to save right whales will push them out of business
Learn about a conflict between the needs of lobster fishermen and the whales their activities are harming
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Daily News Lesson February 22 2023

Top stories: Supreme Court case on regulating the internet + News wrap 2/22/23 + Student video
The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to laws that protect websites from lawsuits
Open door to prison cell
Daily News Lesson February 21 2023

Lesson plan: Advocates push to end automatic charging of juveniles as adults in serious crimes

Part of PBS News Hour's Searching for Justice series
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