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In a landslide vote on April 12, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party lost to the Tisza party headed by what appropriately named rival?

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In the highest-level face-to-face talks between Washington and Tehran since 1979, Vice President JD Vance met for negotiations with Iranian officials in what city?

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Speaking of travel: On April 13, Pope Leo XIV began a 10-day trip to ...

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These are four actual comments posted on Truth Social by Donald Trump in the past month. Which one did he use on April 12 to describe Pope Leo?

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From mid-March to early April, an alarming total of six _______________ died in San Francisco Bay. What fills in the blank?

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10 years ago this month, the infamous Tax Day storm dropped nearly 2 feet of rain on and around which American city, causing its downtown river, the Buffalo Bayou, to overflow?

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A political scientist writes that these days, policymakers in Beijing and Moscow may be thinking of Napoleon Bonaparte's maxim: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is" doing what?

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"Your local fishing hole is getting _______________," reads the headline on a new story from our environment desk. What fills in the blank?

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According to one modern philosopher, the good life requires two things: Self-knowledge and what else?

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