Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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U.S. sends migrants to harsh El Salvador prison
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.
Trump stirs drama with talk of wanting Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal
The two-month-old Trump administration is embroiled in several foreign policy dramas, and not just involving Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East. The president vows to gain control -- somehow -- of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory since...
U.S. astronauts exit space capsule after long-awaited splashdown
NASA astronauts returned to Earth last week after nine months in space. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore expected to spend eight days at the International Space Station during a test flight on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft in June 2024. ...
This week's word in the news: UNREDACTED
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not sitting well with the people affected.
The Chicago Tribune -- 03/24/2025
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