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World. girls garage is a design and construction school here in berkeley, california, for girls and gender expansive youth ages 9 to 18. we teach building skills and technical skills in s.t.e.m. fields. we build a sort of fortitude for young people to go forth into these careers. this is a superhero team. we all have an average of more than ten years of experience in our fields. that means that every young person who enters into this space can see someone who has lived a life like theirs and fee...

Ally Orr, the Idaho student from Boise State University, was surprised to hear Scott Year, a political science professor, talking against women in his speech.

Author and speaker David Rush so far earned 43 official Guinness World Records in 2021, including fastest time to arrange a chess set and most juggling catches while on a balance board, blindfolded.

On Jan. 21, 2022, USCIS updated the USCIS Policy Manual with additional guidance on how USCIS evaluates eligibility for the O-1A extraordinary ability visa category. O-1A visas are reserved for those with extraordinary abilities in science, education, business, or athletics.

The Chamber of Commerce is cheering Biden's expansion of a pipeline set to deliver more foreign competition against American professionals.

Sen. Bill Hagerty is urging Sen. Bernie Sanders to oppose a "corporate carve-out for unlimited foreign labor."

Eventually go to mars, go high and higher. this flew about 100 miles past the space station, so lets keep going, and hopefully this will inspire kids to get into stem fields. i know when i was growing up, it was apollo for me, had my fathers national geographic magazine, and i just went through that magazine every day, just reading, hoping some day i would be an astronaut. im sorry, clayton, i know you have been to space before. now its my turn. i want to go next. [laughter] >> jon: yeah. go ahe...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think youve probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, its been a fund-raising campaign for st. judes, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and theres been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexa...

Limbo. >> my research was disrupted. >> reporter: dennis hu flew to shanghai in january 2020 along with friend and lab mate matthew jikelski. while matthew, an american, returned to the u.s., hu was delayed in going back to their university in boston. first by the outbreak. several attempts to return failed. then came a new policy under president trump. >> first i think its a policy of discrimination based on nationality. >> to suspend the entry -- >> reporter: hu was referring to proclamation 1...

Universities with suspected military ties. the policy singled out those studying in stem fields, science, technology, engineering and math, framed as part of national security. >> there is certainly espionage that goes on in u.s. universities from china. there have been cases in the past where students have been used for espionage purposes. this policy, though, is very sweeping. very arbitrary. >> it is estimated there were sms 5,000 students kept from reentering the u.s. in response to cnn, the...