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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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Giant dust plume sweeps in from Sahara Desert
Balance or ‘truth:’ Newspaper reporting standards are reviewed in this summer of discontent
Protests for racial justice and against police brutality focus fresh attention on how news media report on race, law enforcement and government. One focus of discussion inside and outside newsrooms is the concept of objectivity. Journalists trad...
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Why video games are looking more like movies
As video games have become more realistic — and as movies have embraced more computer graphics — the two industries have started to converge. They both use real actors whose actions and emotions are translated by computer into realistic graphic chara...
This week's word in the news: CLARITY
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he’s seen little clarity on basic questions: whether there would still be a police department and if so, whether Medaria Arradondo, the city’s first black chief, would continue to lead it.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune -- 06/29/2020
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