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Daily News Lesson August 11 2025

Jesuit priest describes seeing ICE agents target migrants at immigration court

Learn more about how ICE agents are targeting migrants at immigration courts, as described by a Jesuit priest who witnessed it firsthand

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

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Daily News Lesson June 20 2025

Millions turn out nationwide for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump administration

Learn why millions marched together in protest across the country

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Daily Video June 13 2025

Short: Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from Noem briefing

The event adds to the growing political tensions in the country

Police investigate attack that injured multiple people in Boulder

Daily News Lesson June 03 2025

Investigators say man used makeshift flamethrower in attack on pro-Israel group in Boulder

Prosecutors charged 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman with a federal hate crime and at 16 counts of attempted murder at the state level

Rally to "support and celebrate" Harvard University's international students

Daily News Lesson May 29 2025

Trump administration pauses student visa interviews

Learn why the Trump administration wants to increase screening of students coming to colleges in the U.S.

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Daily News Lesson May 23 2025

Georgetown scholar says he was 'chained, shackled' in ICE detention

Badar Khan Suri was held for nearly two months in a detention facility in Texas.

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Daily News Lesson May 14 2025

Family who lived through 1950s U.S. deportation effort reflects on current climate

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First group of White South Africans arrives in U.S. Under Trump's Refugee plan in Dulles

Daily News Lesson May 13 2025

White South Africans arrive in U.S. after receiving refugee status from Trump

Learn why the Trump administration is giving White Afrikaners expedited refugee status to the United States

Handout image of an extremely rare official first-edition printed copy of the U.S. Constitution as adopted by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787

Daily News Lesson May 06 2025

As Trump doubts need for due process, what the Constitution says about noncitizens' rights

Discuss the meaning of due process as a constitutional right for all people

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