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

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U.S. sends migrants to harsh El Salvador prison

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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...

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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. ...

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