The fighting between Israel and Hamas continues with rockets and airstrikes killing people on both sides. There was even an airstrike on a building that housed international news outlets. Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the attacks will continue as U.S. diplomats have been dispatched to the area to help with de-escalation talks. Ginger Gibson, deputy Washongton digital editor at NBC News joins us for how the Biden administration is reacting to this situation and why the new guidance from the CDC on masks was causing confusion in the White House.




Next, as students spent more than a year at home in remote-learning settings, cheating has become more rampant and easier than ever. At North Carolina State University, more than 200 students were caught cheating. Texas A&M University had a 50% increase in cheating. Educators say a big part of this is the stress and pressure during the pandemic, and a lot of the cheating is done on homework help and homework auction sites where students can post their assignments and people bid on completing them for a price. Tawnell Hobbs, senior special writer at the WSJ, joins us for the latest surge in cheating.

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