Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Trump deals with ‘Europe's last dictator’ in Belarus
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.
Judge blocks Trump ban on White House access for three media outlets he calls 'fake news'
A new faceoff between the news media and the president, a persistent critic of forceful journalism, lasted six days before a federal judge sided with journalists whose White House access had been banned. The ban applied to reporters from two cab...
6-year-old girl breaks the Rubik's Cube world record
Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi first broke the record earlier this month with an average time of 4.52 seconds at a World Cube Association-certified competition in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and improved to 4.27 seconds at another race in the souther...
This week's word in the news: THRESHOLD
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Child poverty — an assessment of whether pretax income for households with children falls below the latest poverty threshold — declined more significantly in New Mexico in the last three years, dropping from an estimated rate of 24.2% between 2022 and 2024 to 20.9% from 2023 to 2025.
The Albuquerque Journal -- 09/28/2026
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