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. Director of the CDC Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with executives from packaged food manufacturers last week including Kraft Heinz, General Mills and Tyson Foods.
2. Secretary Kennedy called on the senior food company executives to remove artificial dyes from their products, warning them that he would take action if they did not.
3. President Trump this week ordered U.S. military attacks on Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen in response to the terror group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping, especially U.S. commercial and military ships. Among the targets were radars, air defenses and missile and drone systems the terrorists had been using to disrupt shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
4. Due to the Houthi terrorist group’s attacks, commercial ships must make a much longer voyage 34 days vs 25 days around the Cape of Good Hope and up the western coast of Africa. “It has been over a month since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden,” Trump said.
5. The two astronauts stranded on the ISS for nine months after their Boeing Starliner developed problems were returned home in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon on Tuesday. They returned home temporarily taller.
6. The 2 astronauts – Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore – were supposed to be on an 180 day mission that turned into over 9 months.
7. The Trump administration deported more than 250 accused migrant gang members from the U.S. to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) over the weekend. These included mostly members of the notorious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
8. The Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport the criminal gang members who are in the U.S. illegally. A U.S. District Judge blocked the Trump administration from invoking the act and ordered that the planes already in the air be turned around mid-flight.
9. US Attorney General Marco Rubio announced Thursday that three people accused of destroying Tesla cars and charging stations are facing up to 20 years in prison for domestic terrorism.
10. Each of the three charged in the attacks on Tesla face a minimum of five days in prison if convicted, but the charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years.
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