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COVID Vaccine Approved for Children Under Five
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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LGBTQ+ Leaders: A New Generation
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Examining the Lavender Scare
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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History of Juneteenth
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The United Kingdom’s Platinum Jubilee
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YOU DECIDE: Should communities leveled by hurricanes be rebuilt in the same place?
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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The History of Memorial Day
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FDA Approves COVID Booster for Children Ages 5 to 11
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YOU DECIDE: Should Student Debt Be Forgiven?
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Remembering Norm Mineta: Groundbreaking Cabinet Member
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Art and Politics: The 50th Anniversary of Watergate
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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“Troublemaker”: A New Book by John Cho
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Rebuilding Notre Dame
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YOU DECIDE: Should Ohio Postpone its Primary Elections?
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Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Planet
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Arab American Heritage Month
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NFL to Hire More Diverse Coaches
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Remembering Madeleine Albright
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Women’s History Month: The American Quarter Program
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Women’s History Month: Sidney Robertson Cowell
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Women’s History Month: A Visit to the National Parks
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President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address
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Women’s History Month: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Women’s History Month: Equal Pay for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
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Russia Invades Ukraine
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Black History Month: Tulsa, Oklahoma and Black Wall Street
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Black History Month: Remembering Sidney Poitier
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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YOU DECIDE: Should Members of Congress Be Allowed to Trade Stock?
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Black History Month: Harry T. Moore
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Black History Month: Imani Perry’s “South to America”
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Tensions Rising Between Russia and Ukraine
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan
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Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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New York City Swears in New Mayor
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Workweek Changes in the UAE
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YOU DECIDE: Cars That Stop Drunk Driving?
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CAREERS: Historical Preservationist
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Thanksgiving Turkey and Traditions
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A History of the “Old Farmers Almanac”
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Wearing Native American Cultural Regalia at Graduation
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First Native American Nominated to National Parks Service
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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New National Museum of African American Music Opens in Nashville
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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AAPI History Required in Illinois Schools
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Witch Hysteria and Modern Movements for Justice
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YOU DECIDE: Civilian Space Travel
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Jovita Idar
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Latina American Writers
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Sylvia Mendez
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Frank Torres
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The NFL and the Anthem
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later
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North Carolina Revises Voting Laws for Felons
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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The Story of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team
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Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Haiti Faces Series of Natural Disasters
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Census Results Come In
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New York’s First Female Governor
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Camacho-Quinn Wins Gold
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Juneteenth: A Federal Holiday
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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The Origins of PRIDE Month
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The Group of 7 Meets in England
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Denmark’s New Immigration Law
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Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre
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YOU DECIDE: Should Daylight Savings Time Become Permanent?
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Liz Cheney Ousted for Speaking Against Trump
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AAPI Heritage Month: Senator Mazie Hirono
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Biden: Let’s Loosen Rules on COVID Vaccine Patent
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India and COVID-19
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“Going for Broke”: Remembering the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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California Governor Faces Recall
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Biden Appoints New AAPI Liaison
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Derek Chauvin Convicted on Three Counts
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Biden Hosts Earth Day Climate Summit
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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U.S. Troops to Leave Afghanistan
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The 50th Anniversary of Ping Pong Diplomacy
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Senate Briefed on Foreign Threats
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Moving Atlanta’s All-Star Game
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America Gets Vaccinated
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Infrastructure: Build Back Better
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YOU DECIDE: D.C. Statehood
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New Economic Perspectives
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Profiles in Women’s History: Milicent Patrick
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President Biden’s Immigration Challenge
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Profiles in Women’s History: Elizabeth Peratrovich
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Congress Passes American Rescue Plan
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Profiles in Women’s History: Mary Allen Wilkes
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A Century-Long Battle over the Equal Rights Amendment
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Smithsonian Exhibit on Girls
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Voting with Disabilities
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
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Profiles in Black History: Jane Bolin
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Biden Introduces Immigration Plan
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YOU DECIDE: Raising the Minimum Wage
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Profiles in Black History: Robert Sengstacke Abbott
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Trump’s Second Impeachment Outcome
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Profiles in Black History: Nia Dennis
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Biden’s Executive Orders
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Profiles in Black History: Georgia Gilmore
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Status of Biden’s Cabinet
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Biden’s First 100 Days Plan
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Biden Appoints First Native American Cabinet Secretary
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Inauguration Day 2021
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Attack on the United States Capitol
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Columbia Law School Recognizes First Asian American Graduate
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Examining the New Congress
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Biden Begins Choosing Cabinet
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CAREERS: Wildlife Rehabilitator
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Battleground States Certify Election Results
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Coronavirus Vaccine Update
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Election 2020 Update
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Year of the (Republican) Woman
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Election . . . Week?
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A New COVID Wave
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A Look at the 2020 Election
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The Final Days of the 2020 Election
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Pennsylvania Ballot Postmark Debate
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YOU DECIDE: Should Democrats Pursue a “Court-Packing” Strategy?
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October’s Hottest Trend: Voting Early
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Barrett Confirmation Hearings
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Dollar for Dollar: Which Candidate is “Winning”?
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YOU DECIDE: Supreme Court Appointments
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Understanding the First Debate
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Stuff YOU Should Know
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Middle East Peace Agreement Signed at White House
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Young Voters and the 2020 Election

COVID Vaccine Approved for Children Under Five
There are approximately nineteen million children under five years old living in the United States. Until recently these children were not eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. On June 9, 2022, the White House announced a plan to encourage vaccination for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old. Here, btw takes a […]

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Sojourner Truth’s Legal Petition In 1828, Isabella Van Wagenen walked into a courthouse in Kingston, New York, to petition a white man to release her nine-year-old son, Peter, from illegal enslavement in Alabama. Peter was released from enslavement on March 15, 1828. It is believed that this case was the first time that an African […]

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Another Independence Vote for Scotland? In 2014, Scotland held a vote on whether to declare its independence from the United Kingdom. The campaign for independence failed when 55 percent of Scottish voters indicated that they wished to remain with the UK. Since then, however, a lot has happened that may have changed people’s minds. One […]

LGBTQ+ Leaders: A New Generation
June is Pride month–a time to recognize and celebrate the history, contributions, and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community. The movement has changed and evolved over the years, and so has its leaders, who include athletes, performers, activists, and more. Here, btw takes a closer look at a few of the members of the newest generation […]

Examining the Lavender Scare
(Note: This story discusses issues that might be upsetting to some readers, such as anti-LGBTQ discrimination and suicide.) June is Pride Month: a time to honor and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. But it is also a time to remember and reflect on important historical moments in the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and equality. One such […]

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Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The world’s most used natural resource is water. Can you guess the second-most-used resource? It’s not coal or trees: it’s sand. Every year, the world uses fifty billion tons of silica sand. (That’s enough sand to build a wall more than 88 feet high and 88 feet wide around […]

History of Juneteenth
President Abraham Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. Following the Union army’s success at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln proclaimed “That on the 1st day of January . . . 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a […]

The United Kingdom’s Platinum Jubilee
Sunday, June 5th, brought the conclusion of Queen Elizabeth II’s four-day Platinum Jubilee, a celebration of her seventy years as monarch. At 96 years old, she is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Here, btw takes a closer look at some of the celebration’s most memorable moments, as well as at how the world has […]

YOU DECIDE: Should communities leveled by hurricanes be rebuilt in the same place?
It’s summer, and that means the start of hurricane season. Due to the effects of climate change, the United States faces more deadly hurricanes every year. During the past two years, a record fifty named storms formed over the Atlantic Ocean, with eighteen tropical storms and hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. Every year, communities […]

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Monarch Butterfly Populations on the Rise Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico every winter. Migration is a dangerous journey. Monarch populations are also impacted by challenges such as drought, severe weather, habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change. But even so, the number of monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico this past winter was increased by a […]