Welcome to this week's news quiz

This one's for the workers! We're celebrating Labor Day weekend by earning a little overtime. Go 9 for 9 and award yourself a gold barbecue spatula.

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Though he has no legal grounds to do so, President Donald Trump is trying to fire Lisa Cook from her position on the Board of Governors of what organization?

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After the Texas Legislature voted for a gerrymandered map that will likely swing five seats to Republicans in 2026, the California Legislature voted on Aug. 21 to do what?

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Speaking of the Texas Legislature: The same body passed a landmark law in June that allocates $50 million for research on treating opioid addiction and PTSD with the use of what?

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Aug. 29 is the 20th anniversary of what infamous disaster, which led to the deaths of nearly 1400 people in and around a major city?

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Five people doing this job were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25 in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. That makes a total of 197 people who have been killed doing this job in Gaza since October 2023. What is the job?

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Which American company has been awarded billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts for use of its deep data tools, which create "a fluid web of intelligence and surveillance"? The company's name is taken from "The Lord of the Rings."

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Which country, whose population has tripled since 1980 to over 250 million people, has lost more than 700 dead to monsoon flooding in the past month?

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James Dobson died on Aug. 21 at age 89. He helped turn evangelical Christians into a political force by creating a movement and media empire known as what?

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Which sport, invented in the early 1800s and combining "the intensity of a high-wire circus act with the strategic thinking of a grand master chess match," will be an Olympic sport for the first time at the 2028 Los Angeles Games?

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