Welcome to this week's news quiz

Wry January continues, with puckish attempts to test your news knowledge. As always, go 8 for 8 and give yourself a gold star. Good luck!

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On Jan. 14, in a highly unusual move, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Alexandria, Virginia, home of ...

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Based on charges of misleading a Senate committee, the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into ...

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Which newspaper, founded in 1786 and still one of the oldest papers in America, announced that it will close for good on May 3?

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Daily protests across Iran have left hundreds dead and many more injured. Which figure in America has recently "used social media to foment and sustain pressure on the Iranian government"?

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Because multistep CPR can be daunting, medical experts now suggest that ordinary people use a simplified CPR with just two steps. What are those steps?

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(Hint: You'll probably think the answer to this question is the Civil War, but it's not the Civil War.) The state of Pennsylvania passed America's first law allowing soldiers to vote absentee during which war?

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While Venezuela has struggled to do this over the past decades, Mexico and (especially) Brazil have had more success. What has Venezuela struggled to do?

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A new workout craze, surging in popularity thanks to online influencers, is wearing vests filled with what?

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