The Week of June 25, 2023 by CoenM

A court in Brazil ruled that what FORMER PRESIDENT could not seek office again until 2030, citing abuses of power and his casting of doubts over Brazil's electronic voting system.

Google announced it would pull links to news sites in what COUNTRY due to its Online New Act, which will require payments from search engine and social media companies to news organizations they link to? Google and Meta pulled links when Australia passed a similar law.

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY saw several days of riots after the police killing of a teenager named Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop in Nanterre?

Reports indicated that the World Helath Organization plans to name what ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER as "possibly carcinogenic to humans?" Introduced in 1981, it is a common ingredient in sugar free sodas and gum.

What SOCIAL MEDIA SITE announced rate limits for reading posts, from 300 to 8000 per day based on account status? Officially blamed on "data scraping,' the move may also have been related to ongoing issues with using (and paying for) Google cloud services.

The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump, in addition to his phone call to Georgia governor Brian Kemp, also called what THEN GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA to pressure him to find fraud in the results of the 2020 presidential electoin? The governor was the firse since Bruce Babbitt to serve two full consecutive terms in his state.

What ONLINE HOME RETAILER bought the name and some other assets of Bed Bath and Beyond at auction for $21.5 million? The retailer will change its name to Bed Bath and Beyond to reflect its move away from sales of liquidated goods.

Willem-Alexander, the king of what COUNTRY, formally apologied for the monarchy's role in perpetuating slavery on the 160th anniversary of its end there?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced five local cases of what DISEASE, the first native cases in the US for at least 20 years? The CDC reported four cases in Florida and one in Texas.

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): The Supremes. By a 6-3 vote, the US Supreme Court ruled against the concept of "independent legislature theory," which holds that legislatures cannot be overturned by state course on federal election law, in a case brought over the Congressional map of what US STATE?

The court also found that the use of race-consious admisssion policies for colleges to be unconstitutional, based on cases brought against the University of North Carolina and what IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL?

A report in the journal Current Biology stated that what INSECT can use static electricity to latch onto humans and animals without having to make direct contact? The insects typically wait with outstreched arms in a behavior known as "questing" until a person or animal makes contact.