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Who is serving as interim House Speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster?

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On his first day, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-North Carolina), reassigned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in the Capitol building for “speaker office use.”

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Which industry has an estimated 75,000 workers on strike?

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Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in Virginia, California and three other states went on strike in in a three-day union action over wages, as well as staffing shortages.

How much more student-loan debt-relief forgiveness has the Biden administration approved?

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The approved debt relief involves an additional 125,000 student-loan borrowers and totals $9 billion in forgiveness.

A couple is suing Walt Disney Parks for which type of injury?

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The Humunga Kowabunga water slide allegedly caused the woman’s “clothing to be painfully forced between her legs and for water to be violently forced inside her.”

What did three scientists win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for?

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Their work on quantum dots, tiny particles that release bright colored light, have applications in everyday life, from electronics to medical imaging.

Ring, a doorbell camera company, is launching a competition to encourage users to film what with the company's cameras?

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The company's “Million Dollar Search for Extraterrestrials” wants to capture “unaltered scientific evidence of a real extraterrestrial life form” with a Ring device. The winner gets $1 million.

Who was the second celebrity to be eliminated from “Dancing with the Stars”?

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Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger sister of Britney Spears, went out week two of competition.

Which state will terminate a land lease that allows a Saudi-owned farm unfettered access to its groundwater?

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Arizona governor Katie Hobbs is terminating state land leases after an investigation found the foreign-owned farm had violated some lease terms.

Which country proposed raising the legal smoking age by one year?

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U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak proposed raising the legal age for cigarettes by one year, every year, until it is illegal for the whole population in order to “stop teenagers taking up cigarettes in the first place.”

What change has the NCAA made to its transfer portals?

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The time allowed for student-athletes to put their names in the transfer portal has shrunk to 45 total days.

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