NBC Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:01:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg NBC Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 US News Anchor Brian Williams Suspended For Fibbing https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/02/15/us-news-anchor-brian-williams-suspended-fibbing/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:45:50 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14527 For 10 years, Brian Williams has been a news anchor on the popular NBC Nightly News show.
He was suspended for six months without pay because he misrepresented some important events that happened to him during the Iraq War.

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]]> New Jersey Governor Embarrassed After Staff Member Caused Massive Traffic Jam https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/01/12/1-chris-christie/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:48:04 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=11997 The governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, has had a rough start to the new year.

He’s a man the Republican Party in the U.S. is hoping will become a candidate for President of the United States one day.

But what happened recently may have put an end to that hope.

It goes back to an incident that happened last September.

That month, there was a huge traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge, a bridge that links New York and New Jersey.

This wasn’t just any traffic jam.

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