Answer the questions below to the best of your ability without using outside resources. Outside references include (but certainly are not limited to) searching for an answer on the internet, looking at maps, using a calculator, or asking a friend (or foe) if they know the answer. Basically, you are relying on your brain (and maybe a pencil and paper).
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What PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY, on the strength of drugs like Mounjaro and Zepbound, became the first in its sector to reach $1 trillion in market valuation?
What SOUTH AFRICAN CITY played host to the G20 summit, notable for the absence of the US, which boycotted over alleged violence against white South Africans?
What FORMER US TREASURY SECRETARY AND PRESIDENT OF HARVARD, under fire for his multiple appearances in emails with Jeffrey Epstein, announced he would step back from his public commitments?
What TELECOMM COMPANY announced it would layoff 13000 employees in order to "reorient our entire company around delivering for and delighting our customers,” according to CEO Dan Schulman?
A federal court rejected what US STATE's House redistricting plan, citing comments made by governor Greg Abbott tying the redistricting to race?
Two Ukrainians allegedly working for Russia were arrested for sabotage against trains in what NEIGHBORING COUNTRY TO UKRAINE? The sabotage included an explosion damaging a rail line, and damage to the electrical system on the same line near Lublin.
Donald Trump said "we agree on a lot more than I would have thought" after meeting what MAYOR-ELECT OF NEW YORK CITY at the White House?
Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of what COUNTRY, was sentenced to death in absentia for the killing of up to 1400 during the protests which drove her from office? Hasina, currently living in exile in India, is unlikely to be extradited to face punishment.
What UNIFORMED SERVICE, part of the US Department of Homeland Security, made and reversed a policy change that would have seen swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to "potentially divisive?"
What SOCIAL MEDIA APP introduced a feature showing the location of users, which inadvertently showed that many accounts that support Donald Trump that claimed to be American were actually based in locations like Russia, Serbia, and Nigeria?
After a group of six Democratic lawmakers, all military or intelligence veterans, released a video reminding active duty military of their right to refuse illegal orders, Donald Trump accused the group of what CRIME, which incites rebellion against the established order?
The 1939 first issue of the comic book series featuring what TITLE SUPERHERO sold at auction for over $9 million, believed to be a record for a single comic book?