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This team won the Women’s World Cup, joining Germany as the only country to have won both a men’s and women’s title.
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What severe weather event caused flooding and landslides in Southern California for the first time in over 80 years?
Tropical Storm Hilary is the first tropical storm to hit Southern California since September 1939. Concerns for the storm prompted the U.S. Navy to order ships and submarines to leave naval bases in San Diego, Coronado, and Point Loma. Some dry areas of Nevada and California were forecast to receive over a year’s worth of rain in one day.
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After a 47-year hiatus, which nation’s lunar mission, Luna-25, ended in failure, highlighting the decline of its once-powerful space program?
The Luna-25 mission spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon. Russia was racing with India to become the first country to land on the moon’s south pole, as scientists believe that area could hold water and other materials necessary to support a human settlement. India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft will attempt to land in the same area on Wednesday.
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The leaders from these two nations, which have generations of friction, were welcomed by President Biden at Camp David, aiming to present a united front against a regional superpower.
Historically, Japan and South Korea have had a tense relationship due to Japan’s 35-year occupation of the Korean Peninsula. However, recent moves towards rapprochement by South Korea have shifted the dynamics in northeast Asia. The two leaders of these two nations were to Camp David to present a united front against China.
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Yesterday, Bernardo Arévalo won the presidential election in this country, the largest and most populated in Central America and one of the greatest sources of migrants into the US.
Arévalo's campaign focused on fighting corruption, and his victory is seen as a rebuke to the established political order. His opponent, Sandra Torres, is a former first lady who has been involved in previous controversies including charges of illicit campaign financing. Guatemala is a long-standing ally of Washington in the region.
