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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Georgia election chief drenched in paint

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This Week's lesson:

Latest election revives debate over lowering the U.S. voting age to 16

High school juniors and seniors were on the sidelines this month, once again, during the most important national event of 2024 – the presidential election. Even some college students who weren't 18 by Nov. 5 couldn't have a direct role in electi...

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Salmon return to native habitat after dams are removed

Less than a month after four towering hydroelectric dams on California’s Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of Chinook salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades. As the fish gathered to spawn a new generation, native Ame...

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