Questions
DIRECTIONS: Decide whether the bolded section is true or false. Write TRUE or FALSE next to each statement, then rewrite each false bolded statement to make it true.
1. The Battle of the Bulge took place in Belgium and Luxembourg toward the end of WWII between the Allies and the Germans.
2. The Battle of the Bulge lasted for more than a year. It was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War.
3. CNN reporter Clarissa Ward was searching for traces of missing journalist Austin Tice in Syria in an empty prison last week when she discovered a prisoner inside a locked cell who said he was a civilian who had been arrested and imprisoned by the Assad regime.
4. Skeptical of the freed prisoner’s healthy and well groomed appearance, CNN’s Ward investigated and discovered the man was actually a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence, notorious for his activities in Homs.
5. Four hundred North Korean nationals were indicted by the US Justice Department last week and charged with violating sanctions, committing wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft.
6. The North Koreans were indicted for their involvement in a multi-year scheme to pose as remote IT workers. Victims of the fraudulent workers include the defrauded companies who sometimes also had their intellectual property stolen and people whose identities were stolen from across the U.S.
7. The fraudulent workers sent their wages to North Korea for development of ballistic missiles and other weapons. North Korea dispatched thousands of IT workers to get hired and work remotely or as freelancers for U.S. companies. The IT workers involved in the scheme sometimes used stolen identities. In other instances, they paid Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections, or to pose in on-camera job interviews as the IT workers.
8. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he and Democrats in Congress would seek to permanently eliminate daylight saving time when he takes office.
9. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom the president-elect has asked to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, also support the idea of eliminating time changes.
10. A small minority of Americans want to end the twice-a-year time change – they either want to go back to Standard time year round, OR Daylight saving time year round.
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