Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Dominican Republic disaster kills 226
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.
U.S. Education Department shrinks as the president tries to 'move education back to the states'
The federal Department of Education is among presidential targets as he tries to reduce our national government's size and cost. An executive order tells Education Secretary Linda McMahon to work with Congress on transferring nearly all of her a...
As US research jobs vanish, scientists consider relocating
As the Trump administration moves to slash federal funding for research, the threat to academics' livelihoods at universities including Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins has given Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an intellectual windfal...
This week's word in the news: ADEQUATE
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The National Park Service said the hikers, later identified as the Marvelous Microschool group, had tried to reach Arizona Hot Springs “without adequate preparation,” although Normoyle disputed that account.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal -- 04/14/2025
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