Name: U.S. Schools Put COVID-19 Safety Measures in Rearview, Dividing Some Parents by ThisMorning
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Schools nationwide are eliminating COVID-19 protocols as students return for fall semester. Ben Chapman of the Wall Street Journal has the details.

Great Ming is having some problems with its border troops who think orders are actually "suggestions." The Jiajing Emperor is having some problems with his ministers being self-serving twits. Meanwhile, there's some strange happenings going on beyond the wild frontiers...

Time Period Covered:
~1510-1540 CE

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Todd Ruger of CQ Roll Call discussed with Jennifer Kushinka about Afghan Evacuees facing uncertainty in the United States after the fall of Kabul.

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Schools nationwide are eliminating COVID-19 protocols as students return for fall semester. Ben Chapman of the Wall Street Journal has the details.

U.S. Schools Put COVID-19 Safety Measures in Rearview, Dividing Some Parents

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Class action: Kenya gets a new president

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In 1977, a mild-mannered aeronautical engineer sideswiped a parked car in Compton, CA. He stopped his car to see the damage, and all of a sudden a man opened his car door, and jumped in the car. He said, "I'm about to save your life." What happened next would torture him for the rest of his life.

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Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get around and whether the thaw in relations with the United States will make any difference to their lives. Published on August 13, 2015.

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