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As lawmakers negotiate border policy, GOP candidates make immigration the focus

While lawmakers try to negotiate new border policy, former President Donald Trump is doubling down on anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Using a plastic skull, archaeologist Alicia Odewale teaches a lesson about Tulsa's ongoing search for mass graves containing victims of the city's 1921 race massacre. She taught it at Black History Saturdays, a free private program designed for students to learn unvarnished lessons in African American history that teachers say a new law targeting race education has made harder to honestly teach.

Oklahoma restricted how race can be taught. So these Black teachers stepped up

After Oklahoma Republicans targeted public school lessons on race and gender, some Black teachers and parents in Tulsa have banded together to ensure their kids still get honest Black history.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill Monday.

Rep. Liz Cheney read text messages she said Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege

In the messages, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity urge Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

At Sundance, filmmakers say the space to get indie films made is shrinking

The Sundance Film Festival has honored independent movies for 40 years. At this year's gathering, filmmakers expressed unease at the state of the industry.

Adam Carmon walks in downtown New Haven on December 20, 2023. He’s piecing his life back together after spending most of his life in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. After being previously convicted of murder, a judge ruled in July 2023 that he was entitled to a new trial because prosecutors failed to turn over evidence in his case, and the state declined to prosecute him again.

Advocates say Connecticut must reckon with history of wrongful convictions

More than a dozen people convicted in New Haven and the surrounding area from the 1980s through the early 2000s were later exonerated due to official misconduct by police and prosecutors, leading some to call for a more comprehensive review of criminal justice practices during that time.

CSU student Sadie Boisvert speaks at a press conference to voice her opposition of the administration’s deficit mitigation plans to cut nearly $100 million from the most vulnerable college students, leaving them with fewer courses, reduced services and increased costs to attend state universities and community colleges at the State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut February 05, 2024.

CT higher education advocates continue to sound the alarm over proposed state budget cuts

“Without long-term, sustainable, viable funding, our system will continue to be in a very dangerous and precarious position,” said Terrence Cheng, chancellor of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.

A Canadian jailed in China wants compensation from the Canadian government

New allegations from one of the two Canadians arrested in China in 2018 reopened a diplomatic feud between Beijing and Ottawa.

Why one man has spent much of life trying to climb a near-impossible summit

Well known by rock climbers, Devil's Thumb stands about 9,000 feet high over the Gulf of Alaska. One man has spent much of his life trying to reach its summit.

How generational trauma among Israelis and Palestinians fuels the cycles of violence

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Arwa Damon, former international foreign correspondent for CNN, about the impact of trauma on Israelis and Palestinians as a result of successive eruptions of violence.

Jose Grajeda and daughter, Victoria. "If I wanted to go to sleep as a child, I would go cuddle with my mom and she would give me piojito," he says — Spanish for "little lice." The late Peruvian linguist Martha Hidlebrandt described piojito as "gently scratching the scalp of a child as if he were being relieved of the itching of imaginary lice" — hence the name.

You don't need words to calm a grumpy kid. Parents around the world use a magic touch

Modern parents are told to TALK with an agitated kid to improve their mood. But in many cultures, mom and dad opt for a soothing caress to induce tranquility. Neurologists explain why it works.

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