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Rio residents balance hope, sadness as Brazil battles corruption, violence

[Topics such as gang violence and death may distress some readers.] The past two weeks in Brazil have been especially turbulent, with violence at the annual Carnaval festival, Rio police moving on favelas and Brazil President Michel Temer announcing more military crackdowns may take place in weeks ahead. Correspondent Munchenbach conducted and translated interviews with sources in Brazil for this story.
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More than s’mores — Muslim youth camp nurtures students for a life of advocacy

For practicing Muslims, the name itself is a clear clue: An Arabic word, “tarbiya” is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of Islam as “upbringing (and) education” and by other sources as “training” or “discipline.” And that makes Tarbiya a place where finding your inner path is just as important as roasting marshmallows or playing dodgeball.
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‘You just gotta get on’ — how foreigners in South Korea balance daily life, fears over military tensions

A series of nuclear tests by North Korea over the past year — including its sixth and largest test of a hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3, which prompted UN sanctions —  have spiked worry among South Korean citizens. We spoke to three teachers at Chadwick International School in Songdo about how they are dealing with their fears, their jobs and the concerns of loved ones back home.
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Voices of the Square: Q&A with Zahra Billoo, civil rights lawyer and Muslim activist

GSS Libre Talks columnist Hannah Shraim interviews CAIR executive director Zahra Billoo about issues facing our nation, including President Trump's moves to ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., a program that’s targeting Muslim high school students in Maryland as potential community informants, and what she prefers to a really nutritious dinner.
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VIDEO: No such thing as choice in U.S. public education? Check out Pender Early College High School

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made headlines again this week with comments on the need for more school choice for high school students, saying that public schools often don't offer enough options and proposing charter schools or vouchers for private schools instead. But public school districts often do offer choices, as GSS correspondent James Stars shows in this report.
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Read this: A citizen journalist’s guide to covering dissent

If you're covering events like this for the first time as a student or citizen journalist, check out "A Citizen Journalist's Guide to Covering Dissent," by GSS executive director Beatrice Motamedi. You'll find tips on what to bring, how to prep your cellphone, which mobile apps to download, plus hotlines and help on navigating your legal rights.
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Appeals court set to rule on restraint of Muslim ban as California student journalists cover impact of “Executive Disorder”

Beginning Friday, Jan. 27, student journalists at the Blue Devil Hub spent the next seven days covering an airport protest in San Francisco, a fundraising drive that raised $22,000 for a local Islamic mosque after it was vandalized on Jan. 22, the story of a Davis High School parent who was refused permission to travel to Iran for her father's memorial service after the Trump ban went into effect, and a meeting of the local school board to answer questions on "what can schools do to protect their most vulnerable students from a federal government that is targeting them and their families?"
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Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.
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As Trump becomes @POTUS, some still debate role of social media, fake news, memes in his victory

Not surprisingly, a Stanford study released on Nov. 21 found that most teenagers were not able to distinguish between online opinions/sponsored content and news. This, combined with the scope of false articles that rippled through Facebook in the weeks and months prior to the election, has led some to wonder if fake news directly affected voters’ choices and students’ opinions.
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