Today’s news in 10 minutes
April 12, 2024
Today on CNN 10, CNN’s Oren Liebermann boards a B-52 bomber in an exclusive US military mission and how the extensive 33-hour flight to the other side of the world is a statement to our allies, then billions of cicadas are set to appear this spring in a rare “double brood emergence” scientists say. All that and more on this episode of CNN 10.
WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ
1. On April 8th, parts of North America experienced a total solar eclipse where a “path totality” lasted up to how long?
2: In what year will the next total solar eclipse happen in the contiguous US?
3: According to a Bankrate analysis, how much money does a family need to make in order to afford a typical home in the US?
4: What are some fish doing in the waters off Florida’s coast that has some experts alarmed?
5: President Biden held an important summit with the prime minister of which country this week?
6: The largest digital camera in the world is being installed in an observatory in which country?
7: The Biden administration set the first-ever national standard to limit “forever chemicals” in US drinking water. What is another name for “forever chemicals?”
8: The US Postal Service is set to raise the price of a stamp by how much?
9: When did the US Air Force first use the B-52 bomber in an active military setting?
10: Some cicadas are divided into groups. What is another name for those groups?
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