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Wyoming Valley West High School in Plymouth, Pa. Officials with the school district are not responding to several offers to settle debt students accrued from not paying for cafeteria meals. Courtesy of Luzerne County hide caption

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National

Offers Pour In To Cover Pa. Students' Meal Debt, But School Officials Not Interested

After district officials threatened to turn children over to foster care for the unpaid amount, a prominent media figure and a corporate CEO offered to settle the debt but were rebuffed.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits for a portrait in the Lawyer's Lounge at the Supreme Court of the United States. Shuran Huang / NPR hide caption

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Politics

Justice Ginsburg: 'I Am Very Much Alive'

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Justice Ginsburg: 'I Am Very Much Alive'

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Offers Pour In To Cover Pa. Students' Meal Debt, But School Officials Not Interested

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Journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Kateab filmed the documentary For Sama in her hometown of Aleppo, Syria. "You could be killed at any moment," Kateab says. You are always "expecting something worse." For Sama will be in theaters July 26 and distributed by Frontline and PBS. PBS hide caption

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A New Mother Stays In Syria: 'For Sama' Is The Movie She Made For Her Baby

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Joe's Big Idea

New Telescope Promises To Revolutionize Astronomy

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New Telescope Promises To Revolutionize Astronomy

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