FITB News
(from "Wait Wait Don´t Tell Me")

On Tuesday, voters in Minneapolis rejected a proposal to replace their blank with a public safety department.
Police force.

On Tuesday, Facebook announced plans to voluntarily shut down their blank recognition software.
facial

Please fill in the blank. At the Global Climate Summit on Monday, President Biden apologized for Trump's withdrawal from the blank.
Paris Climate Accord

This week, visitors at Disneyland in Shanghai were treated to an unexpected surprise when park staff blanked.
locked the gates and tested all 34,000 guests trapped inside for COVID.

On Thursday, Britain became the first country to authorize Merck's drug to treat blank.
COVID.

This week, Dwayne Johnson said he would only allow rubber blanks on his movie sets.
rubber guns.

This week, pop star Shakira complained that no one stepped in to help her when her bag was stolen by blank.
wild boars. Shakira says she was in Spain when a bunch of wild boars made off with her Gucci bag. And even worse, all the other people nearby just stood around and did nothing.

This week, a negotiator in Iran said the country would return to talks about a blank treaty.
nuclear arms treaty

On Thursday, an American Airlines flight had to be grounded after a passenger refused to blank.
wear a mask

On Tuesday, NASA announced that they may have found the first planet located outside of the blank.
Milky Way Galazy

On Tuesday, employees at fast-food chain blank went on strike in 12 cities.
McDonalds

This week, a giant storm left over half a million people in the Northeast without blank.
power

According to a new report, half of American companies are facing a shortage of blanks.
Workers

This week, a professor teaching a remote class in Korea accidentally turned his camera on, revealing he was giving his lecture from blank.
His bathtub

After marrying a commoner, the princess of blank lost her imperial status on Tuesday.
Japan

On Thursday, a New York school district announced it was banning Halloween costumes based on the Netflix show blank.
Squid Game.

The forest fires in California are now being called a ________, after more than 1 million acres are burning for first time in history.  (gigafire)

Judge Amy Coney Barret is Trump´s pick for the open spot on the _______ (supreme court) in the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg´s death.  

A tourist in Thailand is being threatened with a 2 year prison sentence after he was caught __________ (posting a bad review of a hotel online).  The man was frustrated with the 15$ corkage fee, so he wrote a 1 star review on Trip Advisor, violating Thailands strict libel laws.  

A federal judge blocked President Trump from banning the social app ________ (Tik Tok)

Merchandise with the phrase “Stand Back and Stand by” was banned by online giant _______´s marketplace.   (Why?)

new research shows ____ are capable of consious self aware thought, something previously thought only possible in primates and humans.  

Microsoft has a new update to their Teams software recreates the sensation of a __________ (daily commute).  Gives you time at start and end of work day to reflect.  

Smart speaker technology is so popular, you can now have it ______ (in your glasses) with the new Amazon _____echo frames.   (how is it different than google glass?)  What are the pros and cons?  Why do you think speaker technology is so popular?

France has enacted a ___________ to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.  From 6 pm (I think)  on the day of the enacting, 30,000 cases in 24 hours.  Is France doing worse than Madrid?  Which of the covid measures make sense? which seem too far-reaching?  What more could society do to not shut down the economy but take appropriate health measures?

AOC has just created a ________ account and has pulled in over 400,000 viewers in a single broadcast.  (What is twitch?  What is it used for?)