Domestic
President Biden will designate nearly a million acres of land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument. Why?
The monument will protect lands sacred to Indigenous populations and prevent new uranium mining in the area.
Iran and the United States reached a deal on a prisoner exchange that got four Americans out of the country's notorious Evin Prison. What did Iran receive in exchange for the prisoners?
$6 billion in Iranian oil revenue held in South Korea.
UN’s cultural agency says that what city should be added to its endangered list? Why?
Venice, Italy, hasn’t done enough to avoid irreversible damage from overdevelopment, high levels of tourism, and rising sea levels due to climate change
Who was the animal welfare activist and longtime Price is Right host, died at 99 years old?
Bob Barker
What company has tentatively agreed to pay $5.5 billion to settle claims by more than 300,000 veterans that the company's combat earplugs failed to prevent hearing loss?
3M
What state’s Power Co. announced the first totally new U.S. nuclear reactor built in decades had completed tests and was supplying electricity to the grid?
Georgia
Russia and China are competing against the US military for control of what region of the world? It has become an increasingly contested territory over the past few decades due to a loss of sea ice,
the Arctic region
A UK man recently bitten by what ended up contracting an infection from a species of bacteria previously unknown to science?
Stay cat
What artist’s concerts in Seattle on July 22 and July 23 generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake?
Taylor Swift
What auto manufacturer had to suspend operations at its 14 assembly plants in Japan after its production system malfunctioned?
Toyota
What state passed a new law to finally allow drivers to pump their own gas, lifting a ban that had been in place for more than 70 years? The Gov., Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill that lets drivers choose between using a gas station attendant, or filling up their tank themselves.
Oregon
Why was former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrested?
He was sentenced to three years in jail for corruption.
What country is planning to build the world’s largest suspension bridge?
Italy
Why was Rapper Ye's Twitter account suspended?
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was suspended from Twitter after posting a picture of a swastika inside of a Star of David.
Overstock officially rebranded itself as what businessless than two days after the home goods retailer closed its last brick-and-mortar stores?
Bed Bath & Beyond
What is now the only state left that doesn't allow drivers to pump their own gas?
New Jersey
What country is continuing to battle a widespread outbreak of dengue fever, as the rapidly spreading disease has carved its way through the densely populated nation?
Bangladesh
Ukraine and what country have reached an agreement to export Ukrainian grain through its’ ports on the Danube River?
Croatia…
What did Taylor Swift do to reward her truck drivers?
As a thank you for all of their work, the star gifted each of her 50 truck drivers $100,000.
The family of Henrietta Lacks announced a settlement with what biotech company over the use of her cells in scientific research after they were taken without consent in the 1950s?
Thermo Fisher
Based on current population and migration trends, America’s 3 biggest metropolitan areas by 2100 will be what 3 cities? Replacing New York, LA, and Chicago as the country’s most populous metros.
DFW (No. 1), Houston (No. 2), and Austin (No. 3),
Ukraine has begun using captured rocketsfrom where to attack Russia?
North Korea
At least two people were dead and another 30 remained missing following a pair of migrant shipwrecks off the coast of what country?
Italy
While on a fishing trip in the Florida Keys with her family earlier this summer, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor reeled in an unexpected catch: What did she catch?
70 pounds of cocaine, estimated to be worth more than $1 million.
Paramount announced a deal to sell Simon & Schuster to what private-equity firm?
KKR for $1.6 billion.