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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people — including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.This week’s quiz highlights remarkable road trips, cool coin collections — and a lot more.Can you get all 8 questions right?Give it a try and see how you do!CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESTo try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here. Also, to take our latest News Quiz — published every Friday — click here. American Culture Quiz! How…

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Colombian superstar Shakira gave a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night, an event that the city’s mayor said drew 2 million people to one of the world’s most iconic waterfronts.The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year, which also were attended by huge crowds that danced on the sprawling sands. For Shakira, it was part of her “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” or “Women No Longer Cry,” world tour named after her 2024 album.Shakira’s set kicked off around 11 p.m., more than an hour after the scheduled slot,…

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The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing blockades.Naval blockades are one of the oldest weapons in warfare, requiring no ground troops or invasion, just the ability to cut off what an enemy needs to survive. These blockades have reshaped economies, societies and alliances across generations, sometimes with instant shockwaves, sometimes with effects only seen later.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listFrom Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip to blockades during World War I, here are some…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The educational background of alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen is generating renewed scrutiny from critics about the current state of academia and bias in the teaching profession and questions about far-left politics and rhetoric on college campuses, including the specific institutions the alleged shooter attended.Allen graduated from Cal State University Dominguez Hills in May 2025 with a master’s degree in computer science, according to his LinkedIn page. He spent a few years at the Carson, California, institution that multiple university employees who spoke to Fox News…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Wall’s new role brings him back to the city where his NBA career began. On Thursday, officials at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., confirmed to ESPN that Wall was named the school’s president of basketball operations.Wall joins a standout program that recently became the latest HBCU to reach an NCAA Division I men’s tournament game, a rare feat among mid-majors.Wall was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and spent his first nine seasons with the Washington Wizards. He was named Howard’s honorary captain…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A court filing by prosecutors in the case against Cole Allen, accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, provided a glimpse into the 31-year-old’s mind in the days leading up to last weekend’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.According to the filing, Allen boarded an Amtrak train on April 21 after purchasing a one-way ticket from Los Angeles to the nation’s capital, stopping in only Chicago to change trains. While he rode, prosecutors say he “kept a running note on his phone of his observations and…

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5/1: The Takeout with Major Garrett – CBS News Watch CBS News Spirit Airlines prepares to end operations after failing to secure government rescue deal; Trump tells Congress hostilities in Iran have “terminated.”

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