The Week of January 8, 2023 by CoenM

What SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITAL CITY saw thousands of supports of its former right-wing president storm it legislature, supreme court, and presidential residence?

What US TREASURY SECRETARY sent a letter to Congress noting that the US would hit its debt ceiling limit on Thursday, noting that the Treasury would need to take "extraordinary measures" to avoid the government defaulting on its debt if the limit was not extended or suspended?

President Biden became the focus of a Department of Justice investigation into classified documents found at his private home and at a think thank associated with what IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY, which is also the alma mater of Donald Trump?

Retired general Petr Pavel and former prime minister Andrej Babis advanced to a runoff to see who will replace Milos Zeman as the president of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? The president of this country has more power than the average president in a parliamentary system thanks to ambiguous wording the country's 1993 constitution.

A settlement with the US Justice Department will see City National Bank pay out over $31 million in damages over what PRACTICE, in which it refused to write mortgages in Black and Latino communities? The practice gets its name from the visual representation banks used to make showing what neighborhoods would not get mortgages.

The US House of Representatives passed its first bill of the new Congress, which would remove $80 billion in funding from what FEDERAL AGENCY? The bill, which Republicans tout as preventing the addition of 87000 new agents, is not expected to pass the Senate.

A UN panel stated that the atmospheric layer of what MOLECULE may return to 1980s levels by 2040 thanks to the phasing out of over 100 synthetic chemicals that depleted the layer? Replenishment of the layer over Antarctica may take until the 2060s.

Contractors who introduced a corrupted file to a critical notification system run by what US GOVERNMENT AGENCY led to a total groud stop of domestic aviation, the first time that's happened since 9/11?

What MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY saw protests over plans to reform its judicial system? The plans include allowing the parliament to override supreme court rulings with a simple majority and terms limits for the court's chief justice.

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Crude News. A study published in Science suggested that what OIL COMPANY knew about the future risk of global warming due to oil and gas use, making what turned out to be accurate forecasts as early as the 1970s? The company denies that its research gave them early warning about global warming.

Sultan al-Jaber, the CEO of what COUNTRY's state oil company, was tapped to chair COP 28 climate conference, which the country is hosting? Also the CEO of a clean energy company, the choice of al-Jaber was decried by environmentalists.

Russian missiles struck an apartment building, killing 30 in what UKRANIAN CITY, the country's fourth largest? The strike was the deadliest attack in one location since September.