The Week of September 11, 2022 by CoenM

Thousands of Britons paid their respects during Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state at the hall of what PALACE, originally built in the 11th century but largely rebuilt in the 19th century after a fire? The hall was also the site of King Charles III’s accession.

US stock markets had their worst day in over a year when economic figures for August showed a slight rise in what MEASURE, abbreviated CPI? New gains in the cost of housing, food, and medical care offset continued declines in the price of gasoline.

After railroads and unions tentatively agreed to a new contract, what PASSENGER CARRIER scrambled to reinstate long-haul trips that had previously been cancelled over fears of a strike?

What INDEPENDENT COUNSEL in the Whitewater investigation, who would later lead Baylor University during a sex scandal involving its football team and defend Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial, passed away at 76?

Magdalena Andersson resigned as prime minister of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY after her center-left bloc was narrowly defeated by a right wing bloc in parliamentary elections? Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is expected to become prime minister.

The EU approved a report finding that what MEMBER COUNTRY was no longer fully democratic, but is now an “electoral autocracy?” The block may vote to substantially reduce the country’s €24 billion in cohesion funds.

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of what OUTDOOR APPAREL COMPANY, announced that he and his family were putting ownership of the company into a trust, which will invest profits into environmental and climate change programs?

Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent roughly 50 migrants to what MASSACHUSETTS ISLAND in protest of the number of migrants in border states? The group was later resettled at a Cape Cod military base equipped to handle migrants.

Prosecutors in Baltimore requested a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose 2000 murder conviction was thrown into doubt by the first season of what PODCAST?

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Back in the SSRs. Ukraine retook several thousand square kilometers in a counter-offensive, mostly in what OBLAST that shares its name with the country’s second largest city?

A Russian-brokered cease fire lasted less than a day as what TWO EURASIAN NATIONS continued their decades-long dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh?

Both Pope Francis and Chinese president Xi Jinping visited what CENTRAL ASIAN NATION, though they did not meet? Francis was there to attend a triennial interfaith conference, while Ji was making his first foreign trip since the early days of the Covid pandemic.