The Week of October 1, 2023 by CoenM

The United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of an armed force led by police from Kenya to help what COUNTRY combat its gang problem? The force will also include personnel from Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda.

A three day strike by workers from what HEALTHCARE SYSTEM became the largest work stoppage in that industry's US history, with 75000 employees walking off the job? While docttors and nurses did not strike, the action delayed elective procedures for many of the system's 13 million patients.

The week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off with Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman winning the prize in medicine or physiology for their work on vaccines made using what MOLECULE, a technique that came to the fore in the creation of COVID-19 vaccines?

Several ministries of the French government met to plan a coordinated response to an outbreak of what PEST, primarily in Paris?

President Biden reversed course on his initial pledge to not add to the wall on the US-Mexico border, he announced that the US would erect 20 miles of wall in what RIVER's valley?

The World Health Organization approved a second vaccine to fight what PARASITE, this one aimed at preventing infection in young children? Clinical trials in four African countries showed a 75 percent drop in cases among children given the vaccine?

Israel declared war against what MILITANT ISLAMIC GROUP, whose invasion of southern Israel from the Gaza Strip killed hundreds? The group also took Israeli hostages back into Gaza.

What FOUNDER of the FTX crypto exchange went on trial for fraud embezzelment, and misleading investors? The defense stated that there was no crime as the defendent believed in good faith that FTX could use fonds held by the investment firm Alameida Research.

Over 2000 people died in what COUNTRY after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Herat province?

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Around the House... and the Senate. In the race to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Donald Trump endorsed what OHIO REPRESENTATIVE, a supporter who chairs the House Judiciary Committee?

Laphonza Butler, the CEO of what POLITICAL FUNDRAISING ORGANIZATION, was sworn in to serve the remainder of Dianne Feinstein's US Senate term?

California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have set a cap of $35 on a 30 day supply of what MEDICINE? He said the bill did not address the underlying issue of costs passed down to consumers.