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'Unschooling' movement has parents teaching kids outside of classrooms
NBC News· 2025-08-21 01:49
[Music] This is their school. >> This is the school. >> And this is their classroom. >> Yes, this is their classroom.The world. >> That's because the Kramer family has adopted a style of learning called unschooling. Unlike homeschooling, unschooling includes no lesson plans and no testing.Instead, relying on self-directed education, letting children learn while following their own interests in their everyday environment. Unschooling is I trust my kids are going to learn what they need to learn when they nee ...
Top Story with Tom Llamas - Aug. 20 | NBC News NOW
NBC News· 2025-08-21 01:42
Breaking tonight, Hurricane Aaron lashes out. Massive waves and dangerous rip currents closing in on the eastern seabboard. Parts of North Carolina already feeling Hurricane Aaron surge. The life-threatening surf stretching from Florida to Maine. Massive swelves in Nantucket. Beaches forced to close for days. Right now, conditions beginning to deteriorate along the coast. Bill Karen's tracking it all. Also breaking tonight, no sign of peace as the war in Gaza escalates. Israel calling up 60,000 of its reser ...
Trump orders sweeping review of Smithsonian
NBC News· 2025-08-21 01:30
Tonight, President Trump is escalating his war against what he calls the last remaining segment of woke, accusing the Smithsonian of being out of control, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. We want the museums to talk about the history of our country in a fair manner, not in a woke manner or in a racist manner.a different tone than his firs ...
Heartbreaking testimony from parents of Camp Mystic victims
NBC News· 2025-08-21 01:00
This was 100% preventable. >> Today in Austin, >> my baby girl is still missing. >> Parents who lost daughters when floods destroyed Camp Mystic, pouring out their hearts and demanding action.27 girls were killed. The mother of Seal Stewart, the only camper whose body's not been found, saying they were betrayed by camp officials who were unprepared. >> Protocols that should have been in place were ignored.As a result, my daughter was stolen from us. >> The parents supporting new legislation that would bar l ...
Texas House passes new congressional maps
NBC News· 2025-08-21 00:54
And after weeks of delays, the Texas House gave back into session today, finally voting on Governor Abbott's controversial redistricting plan. And in a shock to a lot of people, but not at all a surprise. His new congressional maps just passed, which could add five Republican seats to the US Congress.But Democrats fought until the very end by staging a protest by sleeping on the floor overnight. at one point even ripping up these so-called permission slips that Republicans required to leave the chamber. Her ...
Israel takes first steps in new offensive against Hamas in Gaza
NBC News· 2025-08-21 00:30
Tonight, a desperate scramble in Gaza. 23-year-old Saja Hammad. You can only see her head as she's trapped by concrete and steel after an Israeli air strike.Finally pulled from the rubble alive as Israel started expanding its war against Hamas, calling up 60,000 reserves and extending the tour of 20,000 already on active duty to take control of Gaza City, home to a million people. A controversial decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. his office says for the defeat of Hamas, but opposed by families ...
Hurricane Erin eyes the East Coast with dangerous surf and potential flooding
NBC News· 2025-08-21 00:00
Tonight, North Carolina's Outer Banks under a state of emergency and starting to feel the early effects of Hurricane Aaron. Folks on the coast need to take care. Dangerous waves already pummeling lower Hatteris Island with more storm surge and tropical storm force wind to come.The combination posing a real threat to this oceanfront motel. 96-year-old Carol White Dylan is worried her 70-year-old business could be crippled by the storm. I'm worried about losing my beach houses.Yes, because they're the mayonna ...
Russia accused of using local criminals to conduct sabotage operations
NBC News· 2025-08-20 23:48
Western officials say Russia is hiring local criminals in Europe to carry out sabotage, from arson to attacks on Ukrainian-linked sites. The pace has slowed this year as Putin waits on possible talks with President Trump over Ukraine. ...
Texas Democrats seek to delay vote for GOP congressional redistricting bill
NBC News· 2025-08-20 23:41
Want to get back to a story that we have been following. The Texas House voting to officially pass the state's controversial uh redistricting plan proposed by the governor to add five more GOP congressional seats for the 2026 midterms. Once it passes any minute now, um it's still not a done deal yet.The bill now goes to the Texas Senate before heading to the governor's desk uh to sign into law. Want to get right to Ryan Chandler who's been standing by for us at the state capital. And this thing has been dra ...
Trump calls on Fed Governor Lisa Cook to resign after mortgage fraud allegations
NBC News· 2025-08-20 23:28
So, President Trump's attacks on the Fed escalating today with new calls for a Fed governor to step down. At the center of that demand, accusations that the woman you see here, Fed Governor Lisa Cook, committed mortgage fraud. Cook saying in a statement tonight that she learned about the allegations from the media and that she has no intention of being bullied into stepping down from her position.The president writing on True Social, quote, "Cook must resign now." The Fed and DOJ declining our request for c ...