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1. Who appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Pedro Pablo Kucyznski. Kuczynski appears to have won by a slim margin over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Kucyznski is seventy-seven-years-old and is known as PPK to U.S. officials. He has a background as a former World Bank official, Wall Street banker, and finance minister.[/toggle]
2. Which automotive company has presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked on the campaign trail?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]General Motors. Trump has criticized GM for moving production to Mexico, which has amounted to $5 billion through 2018. GM counters that it has poured $5 billion into the U.S. over the past year and that it is shifting some production from Mexico to the U.S, notably with its Chevrolet Silverado model.[/toggle]
3. The governor of this U.S. state is moving to impose new campaign finance restrictions.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo is moving to strengthen the state’s rules for how much independent groups can work with political candidates and require more disclosure of spending in election cycles.[/toggle]
4. This U.S. city recently approved of a $15 minimum wage.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Washington, D.C. The city council approved the measure which will raise the District’s minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Advocates say that it will help end the stagnation of wages in low-income work for some of the city’s residents.[/toggle]
5. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee recently acquired the endorsement of this major party figure.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Ryan noted that although he disagrees with Trump on some issues, he feels that party unity is a necessity to capture the White House in November and that Trump would work well with a Republican Congress. However, Ryan has been very critical of Trump’s comments that the judge overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University should recuse himself because he is Mexican American.[/toggle]
6. A former CIA official currently living in Portugal is being extradited to Italy for this crime.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The official, Sabrina de Sousa, is being extradited to Italy to serve a prison sentence for the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar in Milan thirteen years ago. This operation was part of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program that abducted suspected terrorists and then tortured them for information.[/toggle]
7. The African country of Malawi is struggling to protect people with this condition.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Albinism. People with the condition have sometimes been abducted and killed for their body parts, which are then used for potions by witch doctors. There is a local belief that the body parts of albinos can be used to cure HIV or may contain gold. Malawi has reported that at least eighteen albino people have been killed since November 2014.[/toggle]
8. What does the PKK stand for?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The outfit is a leftist military group that is the strongest of Kurdish forces in Turkey. It seeks political autonomy for Turkey’s population, as well as respect for Kurdish cultural values. The PKK has engaged in an intermittent struggle with Turkey since 1984.[/toggle]
9. The leader of this country addressed the U.S. Congress this week.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked to Congress about the strength of the U.S.-Indian relationship, aided by an agreement announced Tuesday where the U.S. will help India construct six nuclear reactors.[/toggle]
10. Which states did former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton win in Tuesday’s Democratic primary contests?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]California (55.8%), New Jersey (63.3%), New Mexico (51.5%), and South Dakota (51%). Clinton’s haul of delegates in these states, combined with her commitments from superdelegates, has made her the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.[/toggle]