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. After a veteran police officer was fatally struck at the scene of a crash late one night despite wearing a vest and using a flashlight, officer Don Campbell designed an improved vest using stronger lights and placed the LEDs below the vest rather than on-top of it.
2. During El Salvadoran President Naibe Bukele’s meeting and press conference with President Trump at the White House on Monday, a CNN reporter asked about MS-13 gang member and Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia, “Do you plan to return him [to the U.S.?” Bukele replied: “Yes. I will bring him back on my own private plane tomorrow.”
3. During the White House briefing, Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to a reporters’ question asking if Abrego Garcia will be returned to the U.S. by pointing out that two courts ruled that Abrego Garcia “was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country” – and it’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him.
4. White House advisor and attorney Stephen Miller also replied to the same question by noting that Abrego Garcia is a citizen of the United States – and that two immigration courts found him to be a member of the notorious MS-13 gang.
5. The Chinese government halted exports of heavy rare earth metals and magnets critical to US production of many vital products especially in the tech, electric vehicle, aircraft and defense sectors.
6. The Trump administration has taken steps to address China’s monopoly including working to secure a mineral deal with Russia, working on a partnership or takeover of resource-rich Greenland and signing an executive order that directed federal agencies to identify mines and government-owned land that could help increase rare earth production.
7. Mark Zuckerberg/Meta is accused of creating an illegal monopoly over social networking with the 2012 purchase of Instagram and 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.
8. The FTC investigation into Meta’s alleged illegal monopoly that began during President Obama’s first term was aggressively pursued under President Donald Trump.
9. Chinese companies Shein and Temu announced they are raising their prices starting next week due the 145% tariff President Trump has placed on most products made in China and the elimination of the de minimis loophole.
10. Chinese companies have been accused of being able to keep their prices lower than American companies by using forced labor, paying very low wages, stealing designs from small businesses and independent designers to bypass design costs and flooding markets with cheap replicas.
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