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Students and others demonstrate during a protest outside the gates to Columbia University in New York

Daily News Lesson April 23 2025

Different views on Trump administration’s student activist crackdown

Examine the role of due process in incidents of students' visas being revoked

School shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas

Daily News Lesson June 01 2022

Questions persist over police response to Uvalde shooting

Hear the latest on investigations into the response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting

Asylum seeking migrants in Penitas, Texas

Daily News Lesson March 29 2021

How migrants are being ‘expelled’ from the U.S. border

The Biden administration has been struggling to solve the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Democrats debate one article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Daily Video January 13 2021

Daily News Lesson: The House impeaches President Trump for a second time

Discuss what's expected from the second impeachment of President Trump.

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protest outside the Capitol in Washington

Daily Video January 12 2021

Daily News Lesson: Capitol attack forces reckoning with radical, right-wing political factions

Discuss why extremist violence is a threat and what's being done to counter it.

Protest against racial inequality in Portland

Daily Video July 26 2020

What are federal agents doing in Portland?

Understand what is unusual about what's happening right now amid protests in Portland.

FILE PHOTO: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) look on after executing search warrants and making some arrests at an agricultural processing facility in Canton

Daily Video August 22 2019

ICE immigration raids took this school superintendent by surprise

Use this lesson plan to learn more about the ICE immigration raids in Mississippi and how schools have been affected.

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Post March 28 2019

6 things to know about Trump's national emergency

Directions: Read the summaries, watch the videos and answer the discussion questions below. If stra…

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Daily News Lesson January 27 2019

Student breakdown on the government shutdown

Use this PBS NewsHour lesson plan with your students for the latest on the government shutdown.

Claudia Maquin mother of Jakelin Caal, a 7-year-old girl who handed herself in to U.S. border agents earlier this month and died after developing a high fever while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reacts during her daughter's funeral

Daily Video December 27 2018

Why children in U.S. custody need specific pediatric expertise

In this NewsHour lesson plan, learn why specific pediatric expertise is needed in the care for immigrant children.

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