(energetic rock music) - welcome to teen kids news, i'm veronique. let's begin with our top story for this week. what do you call a teen who loves playing softball, dancing and eating chocolate chip cookie dough? oh! and one more thing. she has a crown. amelia has the answer. - you call her katherine haik, miss teen usa 2015. - [announcer] the winner of miss teen usa 2015 is louisiana! (cheers) the first runner up is california. - katherine won more than just the crown. she also won a place in the history books. not only was she the youngest contestant to make it to the famous pageant. at 15 years old, she's the youngest winner ever. hi katherine! - hi. thank you for having me. - our pleasure. what was it like competing against 50 girls who were quite a bit older than you? - right. well, i see myself as a really mature 15-year-old. i don't think my age really held me back from having the same experience as everyone else. i made so many friends. i just had the time of my life. it was so much fun. - now, you grew up in a small town in louisiana, what w

i'm veronique. let's begin with our top story for this week. there's an old saying that the more things change, the more they stay the same. well, when it comes to the new sat, that may not be true. amelia tells us more. >> while there are two types of standardized tests for students looking to go to college -- the sat or the act -- in this report, we're only focusing on the sat. that's because the sat has made some changes. to learn more about that, we're joined by rob franek. he's with the college-prep company called the princeton review. welcome! >> thank you. good to be here. >> so, what's changed? >> there are four big changes that have happened for the sat, and these big changes happened in march 2016. the four changes are the sat will no longer be testing on obscure vocabulary words. one of the most difficult things that i'd have for a princeton review student is to give them 500 words that they'll probably never use again to study for the sat, so that fear goes away. number two is that we've eliminated one full answer choice on the sat.

veronique robert, working for the france-2 channel, was wounded in a mine explosion on monday. she was later flown to a paris hospital for treatment. the same explosion killed another french journalist and an iraqi colleague. robert was 54-years-old. she's the 29th journalist killed in iraq since 2014, according "" reporters without borders." >> sreenivasan: military veterans' groups are applauding the bipartisan-backed law president trump signed yesterday to improve the veterans administration. it creates a new v.a. accountability office, and makes it easier for the v.a. to fire problematic employees, in a department whose hospitals have been criticized for lapses in care for america's 19 million veterans. associated press reporter darlene superville has been covering this story and joins me now from washington. this is kind of a rare glimmer of bipartisanship. >> it is a rare glimmer of bipartisanship. and bipartisanship is easy to achieve when you're talking about military veterans and the people in this country who voluntarily go into harm's way in defense of the united sta

journalists have died from injuries sustained when a mine exploded in mosul -- swiss journalist veronique robert and french video journalist stephane villeneuve. the explosion immediately killed iraqi i journalist bakhtiar haddad. in syria, u.s.-bacacked troops captured a district of western raqqa from isis over the weekend. the lolocal journalistic group raqqa is being slaughtered sisilently reports u.s.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least five civilians on saturday in raqaqqa -- a man nanamed khal al sharabi along with his wife, asas well as another man named khalil al-bari, his wife, and one of their sons. the syrian observatory for human rights says the u.s.-led coalition n airstrikes have kild nearlyly 700 civilians in and around raqqa since the campaign to take control of the city began in march. meanwhile, critics are warning the united states is quietly exexpanding its military role in syria, with an increasising numr of strikes against the syrian government. the u.s. has shot down at least one syrian governmentnt plane, d two iriranian-made drorones this month. the dean of t