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Welcome to the last news quiz of May. Have you kept up? Go 8 for 8 and award yourself a tiny gold brain.

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Cuba announced on May 14 that, due in part to a decades-long American embargo, it had finally run out of ...

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In "Magnifica Humanitas," his encyclical letter released on May 25, Pope Leo XIV compared the rise of artificial intelligence to what biblical story?

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Speaking of AI, "silicon sampling" describes the surprising use of artificial intelligence to stand in for humans in ...

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Over the centuries, the 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘩 has been white, red, green, yellow and even striped. In recent years, it is black with elaborate touches of gold. What is the 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘩?

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The Department of Homeland Security issued a policy memorandum on May 21 that would prevent immigrants from applying for a green card ...

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The 2026 World Cup begins on June 11. Who will be defending their title from soccer's last World Cup, held in Qatar in 2022?

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, a 6,500-acre station that for 90 years has been researching the comings and goings of what?

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Oh no! You found a bat in your house. To remove it safely, which of these is the appropriate first step?

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