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Tonight, one of Africa's largest countries is gripped by chaos. The army and a powerful para military locked in a brutal fight for power. It is unclear who is in control and where. Americans told to shelter in place. Even the U.S. ambassador to Sudan hunkered at the embassy with his staff. And this tourist who was visiting when the fire erupted. But with the international airport closed the State Department is telling NBC News there's no plans for the U.S. to evacuate its citizens.

The topic of this study is the validity of college composition placement decisions, particularly the decision to place incoming students into Basic Writing (BW), the lower level English composition course, at a western Pennsylvania university. Validity is the study of the quality of decisions made in educational assessment, and current validity theory says that in order to validate placement (or any assessment) programs, one must investigate all possible evidence both for and against the decisions made, searching not only for evidence of the intended consequences but also searching for unintended negative social consequences that may outweigh the benefits of placement decisions, posing threats to a program's validity. My review of college composition placement validation literature reveals that few studies make attempts to both (a) refute counter-arguments for a program's validity and (b) to weigh an investigation of social consequences into the validity argument. The purpose of this study is to apply these two major imperatives of current validity theory to a validation study of the University of the Western Atlantic's (UWA, a pseudonym) placement program. In order to tap into data sources that might reveal counter-arguments and issues of social consequences, I suggest that a phenomenological framework must be employed, because only through a critical inquiry into BW students' lived experience of their placement can a researcher fully make the argument for or against the validity of the placement decisions. A careful reading of validity theory literature shows that data regarding the lived experience of the students affected by the placement decision is theoretically supported. This study will attempt to answer that call by reporting findings from series of unstructured interviews with BW students over the course of their semester in the class. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) will be the primary analytical tool used to reveal both personal and societal issues that reside in the recorded interviews. By reporting themes that emerge from this qualitative research, this study hopes to provide information key to the ongoing validation of UWA's placement program, and to serve as a model for a type of investigation crucial to any placement program's validation.

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It was an accident that seemed unthinkable, almost impossible, how did live ammunition make its way into a prop gun on a movie set? 15 months after the tragedy, that question is still unanswered. Even as prosecutors say Alec Baldwin will face felony charges and up to six and a half years in prison. The announcement from prosecutors was a bombshell.

The U.S. military says the American plane was in international airspace conducting routine patrols. Look how close the Chinese plane gets placing itself about 10 feet away and then drifting forward toward the nose of the American plane, forcing it to descend to avoid a crash. For several years U.S. officials have been warning of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese pilots, saying a major incident is only a matter of time.

Federal health officials say two things drove this decision. China's surging cases and U.S. skepticism about the data Beijing is reporting. Officials say they are worried if a new dangerous variant emerges from china, they may not be able to spot it in time. So, starting January 5th, anyone two years or older flying from China to the U.S. must show a negative PCR or Telehealth proctored rapid antigen test taken no more than two days before the departure.

This morning, two sprawling criminal investigations into former President Trump are in the hands of an independent special counsel, career prosecutor Jack Smith once ran the Justice Department unit that prosecutes political corruption. Now, he's tasked with recommending whether Mr. Trump should be charged with federal crimes. Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the extraordinary circumstances involved in investigating a former and possibly future president.

Tonight, Republican Herschel Walker speaking exclusively to NBC's Kristen Welker about why he flashed a badge during Friday's debate and whether he's pretending to be a police officer. Walker saying he's participated in training and leadership programs with law enforcement for years. The Johnson County Sheriff confirms to NBC News he gave Walker the honorary badge and could enlist Walker's help in a crisis.

Tonight, illegal tug of war between the Justice Department and former President Trump's lawyers over who should be appointed to sort through government documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago and how broad the review should be. The Justice Department proposing to retired federal judges for the role of special master, including one nominated by former President George W. Bush. But Mr. Trump's team offering two different candidates, one a Reagan nominee and the other a former Florida Deputy Attorney General, Trump's team arguing the review should include all the documents seized by the FBI.

Tonight, the UN's nuclear watchdog says the world cannot tolerate more damage to Europe's largest nuclear power plant after inspectors finally got a firsthand look at damage from months of shelling. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency inspecting the plant for five hours, then issuing this warning. Just hours earlier, the unprecedented mission to the Russian-held plant was threatened by intense shelling before and during the inspectors journey across the frontlines.