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

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Trump deals with ‘Europe's last dictator’ in Belarus

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This Week's lesson:

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...

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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...

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The news media shape how we see and understand the world around us. With its new video series, NBCU Academy takes a deep dive into what it means to be a journalist today, how the industry is evolving, and how the next generation can help.

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

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