The Week of March 17, 2019 by CoenM

John Bercow, who holds what POSITION IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, ruled that PM Theresa May could not bring her Brexit plan back to Parliament for another vote unless there are changes to it, citing precedent that the PM can't repeatedly bring bills for votes that are "substantially the same?"

A paper in the journal Science claimed that DNA evidence identified a Polish butcher named Aaron Kosminski as what LEGENDARY CRIMINAL, based on matches from evidence collected after the murder of Catherine Eddowes to living relatives of both Kosminski and Eddowes?

Nursultan Nazarbayev surprised his countrymen by resigning as president of what CENTRAL ASIAN NATION, an office he's held since 1990? Within 24 hours of leaving office its capital, Astana, was renamed Nursultan in his honor.

What TEXAS CITY asked residents to shelter in place and cancelled school after elevated levels of benzene were detected after a multi-day chemical fire in nearby Deer Park?

Radovan Karadzic, the former Serb leader of what COUNTRY FORMERLY PART OF YUGOSLAVIA had his prison sentence extended to life for his role in various war crimes, including the Srebrenica massacre?

Donald Trump suggested that it was time to recognize that what OCCUPIED TERRITORY is part of Israel? Israel captured the territory from Syria during the Six-Day War.

Flooding in the US midwest continued to worsen in the aftermath of what type of STORM, where a dramatic lowering of atmospheric pressure over a 24 hour period intensifies both wind and rainfall?

Jimmy Carter entered the record books as the US president who lived to the oldest age, surpassing what other 20TH CENTURY US PRESIDENT, who was 94 years and 171 days old when he passed away?

What G7 COUNTRY became the first to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative, hoping to boost an economy suffering through its third recession in a decade?

Your HallR mini-theme(TM) of the week: Online Out of Line. For the third time in two years, the EU fined what TECH GIANT over a billion Euros for violating anti-trust laws by restricting ads from competing services on sites using its AdSense program?

What SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM notified users that content uploaded prior to 2016 - including some 50 million songs - were lost in a server upgrade?

What SPECIAL PROSECUTOR submitted his report on Russia and the 2016 US presidential election to the Justice Department?