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

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Generation Z protests topple Nepal’s government

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This Week's lesson:

National Guard anti-crime mission in cities blurs the line between police and military

President Trump is testing a 147-year-old law that says the military can't typically engage in standard police work. He federalized the District of Columbia police department this summer and sent National Guard members to the capital, as well as...

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‘Social media is a cancer,’ says Utah governor

After gruesome video of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk spread across the internet last week, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called social media “a cancer on our society right now.” He said we as human beings are not “capable...

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