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Fights play out at school board meetings across the country. initially this council comes together, it has conservative, liberal parents, everything in between and they get ready to present this diversity plan and it takes almost two years of work. the plan is ready right in the months of george floyds murder in which the political conversation around how to talk about race history in the classroom is entirely different than it was in 2018. so this document, despite how it had been worked on for...

This diversity plan. it takes two years of. worked the plan is ready red in the months after george floyds murder, in which the political conversation in how to talk about race in history and in the classroom is entirely different to how we were talked about in 2018. so this document is in that politicized context and there is a huge backlash. parents raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and even launch a lawsuit that leads to a restraining order that stops the district from implementing any d...

Npr reporter jeff bennett. youre new to the show and table. well let you go first. give us the update. does the delay in the bill mean more time to essentially offer sweeteners to get people onboard or does it jeopardize the bill? >> i think it means both of those things. the passage of time has not been good for this bill. one of the reasons we know that mcconnell and other republican leaders want to really rush to have a vote is basically to stop the opposition effort from mobilizing. and oppo...

Where this threat emanated from? >> i think its important for to us distinguish between a counterterrorism effort that is ongoing. dealing with al qaeda and the remnants that still exist in the fatah, creating platforms, taking targeted strikes where necessary. gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done -- would have to be done even in the crisis in iraq wasnt occurring. and theres no doubt that the problem in syria is one that weve been paying a lot of attention to over the last coupl...

The olympics? remember that? he released two imprisoned members of the band pussy riot who had been in prison two years. the other high-profile prisoner he released ahead of the olympics was this man, once russias richest man. when he was still free, he decided to use his economic power to fund and help lead an opposition effort against vladimir putin and his seemingly permanent reign in russia. he had him jailed for over a decade when he released him before the olympics. putin also seized the a...

Rapidly, i think at first there was a certain euphoria and we thought the libyan opposition was going to gain the upper hand very quickly then there were serious and rapid reverses and so i think the president felt that if he didnt act immediately last week, that there was a real risk that there would be no opposition left to be talking about this evening so i think that was the first thing he wanted to do was keep them in the game and now weve got to see the situation stabilized, identify who t...

Food is abundant, though ironically in the oil-rich country, fuel is becoming a problem. and while enthusiasm is not in short supply, battlefield experience is. medical student has never fought before. >> nobody here have any experience. you have a strong heart. >> four hours. >> do you have any military experience? were you in the army? >> nope. >> where did you learn to use that thing? >> by myself. until now the opposition effort is a do it yourself operation. and it shows. they are anarchic ...

Members of the band pussy riot who had been in prison two years. the other high-profile prisoner he released ahead of the olym c olympics was this man, once russ russias richest man. when he was still free, he decided to use his economic power to fund and help lead an opposition effort against vladimir putin and his seemingly permanent reign in russia. he had him jailed for over a decade befowhen he released him before the olympics. putin also seized the assets of his company, yukos oil, the com...