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Daily Video August 04 2017

What Flint schools are doing to protect children from lead

When the city of Flint, Michigan began using the Flint River as a water source to save money three years ago, the water flowing through the aging pipes caused lead, a neurotoxin that affects brain development, to leach into the water supply.

Daily Video August 03 2017

Can Republicans and Democrats learn to work together?

Partisan politics in the U.S. Congress has been on the rise since the 1990s.

Daily Video August 03 2017

North Korea continues to conduct major missile tests

President Trump and Japanese President Shinzo Abe spoke by phone on Monday to discuss the growing global threat caused by North Korea. North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday that experts said could reach the western half of the United States, if not the whole country, with a flatter trajectory.

Daily Video August 01 2017

Ambitious girls ride the waves in Bangladesh's beach town

In the South Asian country of Bangladesh, poverty is widespread and girls are often married in their early teens. However, at the world's longest beach and Bangladesh's only beach town, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, a group of girl surfers feel empowered when they might otherwise be expected to fulfill traditional roles in the house.

Daily Video July 28 2017

Trump announces major policy change for transgender service members over Twitter

When President Trump tweeted that transgender Americans would no longer be allowed to serve in the military, his Joint Chiefs of Staff in the four branches of the military were unaware that he planned to make the announcement.

Daily Video July 20 2017

America's National Parks: Lessons in STEM from early Native Americans

America the Beautiful is a video series produced by PBS Student Reporting Labs in celebration of the U.S. National Park Service's 100-year anniversary in 2016

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Daily Video July 18 2017

The legacy of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel laureate and human rights activist

For decades, Liu Xiaobo was one of the Chinese government's most outspoken critics and advocates for peaceful change and democratization.

Daily Video July 13 2017

Media literacy and the problem with the term 'fake news'

DOWNLOAD VIDEO Take a look at one or more of these short videos on media literacy. The …

Daily Video July 10 2017

What was outcome of Trump-Putin meeting during G20 summit?

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Daily Video June 23 2017

Why do so few trials of police shootings end in convictions?

In July 2016, a young black male named Philando Castile was fatally shot by police officer Jeronimo Yanez outside of St. Paul, Minnesota during a traffic stop due to a broken tail light.

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