The Week of August 11, 2019 by CoenM

What SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY saw its peso drop 25 percent and its main stock index lose 31 percent of its value after its president, Mauricio Macri, placed a distant second in primary voting to the left-wing Alberto Fernandez?

A "lookback window" law took effect in what US STATE, which will allow victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue alleged perpetrators in cases where the statute of limitations would have previously prevented a lawsuit?

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, got into hot water over his interpretation of what POEM, first adding a reference to immigrants being able to stand on their own two feet, and then saying the poem was referring only to European immigrants?

The Kremlin acknowledged an explosion that saw a temporary spike in radiation levels, but did not confirm that it was related to the testing of what rumored NUCLEAR POWERED CRUISE MISSILE that shares its NATO name with a James Bond movie?

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of pretomanid to fight what DISEASE OF THE LUNGS, which trials showed was effective (as part of a three drug cocktail) at combating the increasing prevalent drug-resistant strains of the disease?

What US REPRESENTATIVE FROM IOWA defended his stance on a total abortion ban by advancing a theory that humans may not have survived without babies born from rape or incest?

What COUNTRY banned US Representatives Ilhan Oman and Rashida Tlaib from entering, based on their support of a movement to boycott the country?

Rupert Hogg, the CEO of what AIRLINE, resigned after pressure from the mainland Chinese government forced the airline to change its stance on employees participating in Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests?

RIght wing and anti-fascist groups staged competing protests in what WEST COAST US CITY, with less violence than seen when both groups clashed in the same city in July?

Your HallR mini-theme (TM) of the week: Dane in Vain. The foreign ministry of what ISLAND, an autonomous territory of Denmark, said "We're open for business, not for sale" after reports surfaced that Donald Trump has asked advisors several times about the possibility of buying the island?

The Danish government announced it would seek stricter border controls against what NEIGHBOR, the home of two men suspected in bombings outside of two government buildings in Copenhagen?

Astronomers announced a hypothesis that what PLANET was hit by an embryonic planet roughly 10 times the Earth's mass in the early days of the solar system? The hypothesis seeks to explain the planet's diffuse core, which is believed to have a mix of both light and heavy elements.