The Week of August 24, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

LynchT
Teacher's Motto: I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

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Questions:

What Florida-based DETENTION CENTER, used to house people arrested on immigration charges, started to empty after a federal court granted an injunction against its operation? The Department of Homeland Security is appealing the injunction.

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Alligator Alcatraz

In addition to ramping up operations against Gaza City, Israel struck a based near al-Kiswah in what COUNTRY, killing six soldiers at an airbase formerly home to Iranian militias?

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Syria

What IOWA SENATOR, who took heat earlier in the year for saying "we are all going to die" when questioned about cuts to Medicare, announced that she would not seek re-election next year?

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Joni Ernst

Several countries, including Australia, India, Taiwan, and Mexico announced they were halting package shipping to the US after it ended the tariff exemption known by what TWO WORD LATIN PHRASE that allowed packages valued at under $800 to enter the US without tariffs?

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de minimis

What AFRICAN COUNTRY confirmed they had taken its first group of migrants deported by the US, following an agreement to take in as many as 250 deportees? The country had previously agreed to take in deportees from the UK, in a plan that was ultimately scrapped.

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Rwanda

After several attempts that saw it suffer from "rapid unscheduled disassembly," SpaceX finally successfully tested what SPACECRAFT, taking off from Texas and landing in the Indian Ocean?

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Starship

The fight over mid-decade Congressional redistricting entered an unexpected venue when a judge's ruling opened the door for the creation of a Democratic-friendly district in what MOUNTAIN STATE whose Congressional delegation is all Republican?

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Utah

What AIRLINE filed for bankruptcy for the second time in a year? The budget carrier has struggled in the face of too many flights, recalls of its jets' Pratt & Whitney engines, and the after-effects of a failed takeover by JetBlue.

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Spirit Airlines

China announced that what WORLD LEADER would make hist first multilateral appearance with other world leaders at a Beijing parade to mark the end of World War II? He has most recently gone abroad to meet with Vladimir Putin, where he made military agreements that saw his country send troops to Ukraine.

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Kim Jong Un

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: You're Fired? Donald Trump claimed that he had fired what GOVERNOR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, saying she had committed mortgage fraud? She would later sue Trump, calling the allegations against her "unfounded."

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Lisa Cook

Susan Monarez was finally fired as head of what PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY, after refusing to resign over a disagreement over vaccine policy? Four senior officials would also resign over what they saw as issues with the political direction of the agency.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine stated what what CLASS OF DRUGS, which for decades have been regularly prescribed after heart attacks, have no benefits over not taking the drugs for patients whose hearts still functioned well? The drugs lower blood pressure and slow heart rate by interfering with the effects of epinephrine.

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beta blockers