Recent News: June 13th, 2025

Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement have engulfed parts of Los Angeles for the past week. What initially prompted them?

• An immigration raid on a workplace

• A traffic stop that led to an immigrant’s arrest

• A proposal to end the city’s sanctuary status

• The establishment of a customs checkpoint in the city

Trump ordered 4,000 members of the California National Guard to deploy to the protests, along with 700 troops from which branch of the military?

• The Air Force

• The Army

• The Coast Guard

• The Marines

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week removed all 17 members of an expert panel that advises the C.D.C. on what issue?

• Animal health

• Food safety

• Injury prevention

• Vaccines

The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that did what?

• Gave individuals the right to bear arms

• Enshrined the right to an abortion

• Legalized same-sex marriage

• Upheld the use of the death penalty

Which European country — that has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world — was the location of a school shooting on Tuesday?

• Austria

• Greece

• Italy

• Portugal

Israel intercepted an aid boat headed for Gaza on Monday. Which environmental activist was on board?

• Al Gore

• Julia Butterfly Hill

• George Monbiot

• Greta Thunberg

Scores of passengers died when a plane bound for London crashed moments after takeoff on Thursday. What airline was operating the flight?

• Air China

• Air India

• Delta

• Jet Blue

Which American tennis player won her first French Open?

• Coco Gauff

• Madison Keys

• Emma Navarro

• Jessica Pegula

Which show on Broadway, about a budding romance between humanoid robots, won six Tony Awards, including for best musical?

• “Buena Vista Social Club”

• “Death Becomes Her”

• “Hadestown”

• “Maybe Happy Ending”

Researchers announced this week that they had accomplished which of the following during an expedition deep in the Southern Ocean?

• They captured the first-ever video of an Antarctic gonate squid.

• They discovered a new species of fungus.

• They identified a new kind of dolphin.

• They recovered fragments of a space rock.