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A bill to require backseat passengers under 16 to wear a seat belt passed in the Senate earlier this week.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers blasted tech companies that they said do little to keep kids safe from bullying, addiction and "rabbit holes of dangerous material."

The child care gap across the country is more than 30%, meaning the need for quality child care far outweighs the supply — and it's worse in rural areas.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on a lawsuit by Tulsa Race Massacre survivors moving forward, Oklahoma political candidates and the conservation and culture of the prairie chicken.

Meta is taking steps to give parents and guardians more oversight of their teens' activities on Instagram and Quest — implementing changes it had announced in recent months.

Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.

Author Miry Whitehill founded Miry's List, a nonprofit that helps refugees from around the world settle in the U.S. The nonprofit is already preparing for the eventual arrival of Ukrainian families.

In one month, the child poverty rate increased from 12.1 to 17 percent, the highest rate seen since Dec. 2020. Black and Latino children experienced an even higher rate of poverty.

He created stories centered on African and African American folk tales and his vibrantly colored collage and paper-cut illustrations adorned the pages of some 50 books.

Avah Lamie, 11, says this is a stressful time to be a kid. Rates of anxiety and depression among children and youth were on the rise even before COVID, but the past two years have made things worse.