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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 features White House wonders, pie choices and space-age achievements. Can you get all 8 questions right?For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyleTo 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 well do you know this week’s topics? (Getty Images; iStock) Sydney Borchers is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox…

In a room full of cubicles, workers in headsets read from their computer screens, addressing callers who dialed a 1-800 number. They have a script.“Were you or your loved one sexually abused by Sean ‘Love’ Combs, known as Diddy, Puff Daddy and P. Diddy?”“If the abuse occurred at a party, please list the name of the party. What kind of party was it?”Their employer, Reciprocity Industries, is a legal services company located in a low-slung building in Billings, Mont., more than 2,000 miles from the Brooklyn jail where Mr. Combs awaits trial on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.For years,…

Meta’s Facebook’s influence remains strong globally, but younger users are logging in less. Only 32% of U.S. teens use Facebook today, down from 71% in 2014, according to a 2024 Pew Research study. However, Facebook’s resale platform Marketplace is one reason young people are on the platform.”I only use Facebook for Marketplace,” said Mirka Arevalo, a student at Buffalo University. “I go in knowing what I want, not just casually browsing.”Launched in 2016, Facebook Marketplace has grown into one of Meta’s biggest success stories. With 1.1 billion users across 70 countries, it competes with eBay and Craigslist, according to BusinessDasher.”Marketplace…

At Le Bouillon Chartier in Paris, the recipe for a perfect beef Bourguignon involves beef, carrots, wine, butter and “coquillettes,” a tiny macaroni-shaped pasta. It is cooked for at least three hours. And it must be affordable, so the price cannot be more than 10 euros a dish.Since 1896, the belle epoque eatery has been Parisians’ destination for cheap French fare. It’s a boisterous canteen with meals that give energy for the day, where someone on a living wage can eat for less than what they earn in an hour.But rarely in Bouillon Chartier’s storied history has it been as…

The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the corner of the room in her first-floor apartment, flattening herself as the rat-a-tat of gunshots sounded outside her bedroom window.When the commotion grew louder, she said, she crept to the window and peeled back the curtain. Outside, dozens of people were fleeing down the road, many in their pajamas, as four men in forest green uniforms chased them. Then, the uniformed men opened fire. Within seconds, four of the fleeing…

Soon after the recent contentious Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Senator Adam Schiff went on camera to offer his assessment.“I was horrified and sickened,” Mr. Schiff, a California Democrat, said. “This is Donald Trump caring about nothing of American values,” he later added.More than 2.2 million people watched Mr. Schiff. But he wasn’t talking on MSNBC or on CNN. Instead, he was appearing on the YouTube channel of the MeidasTouch Network, an upstart online media company known for its relentless critiques of Mr. Trump, delivered in a blizzard of bare-bones, outrage-heavy videos, clips,…

“I hate the Packers,” Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said of his state’s rival football team from Wisconsin.“Lamar Jackson was robbed,” grumbled Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, still bitter that the Baltimore Ravens quarterback had fallen just short of winning the N.F.L.’s Most Valuable Player Award.“The Sixers suck right now,” declared Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, lamenting the decline of Philadelphia’s basketball team.The hot takes are flowing as a parade of ambitious Democrats talk sports, trying to accentuate their salt-of-the-earth credentials and forge stronger bonds with voters.These Democrats are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts as their party tries…

What are the Seattle Seahawks doing?You’ve probably been seeking an answer to that question since learning they agreed to send quarterback Geno Smith to the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a third-round pick, according to league sources. The trade, which will be finalized next week, will save Seattle $31 million in cap space, giving the team more than $60 million to work with, days away from free agency.Seattle will receive the lesser of Las Vegas’ two 2025 third-round picks. At a time when teams are leaving no stone unturned in their search for competence at quarterback, the Seahawks shipped…

Tesla’s stock has never had a stretch this red.For seven straight weeks, since Elon Musk went to Washington to join the Trump administration, shares in his automaker have declined, closing Friday at $US270.48 ($428). It’s the longest such losing streak for Tesla in its 15 years as a public company.Tesla shares finished the week down more than 10 per cent and at their lowest level since November 5, Election Day, when they closed at $US251.44. Since the stock peaked at almost $US480 on December 17, it has lost well over $US800b in market cap.Several Wall Street firms last week, including…

Gaza in Fragments follows three people in Gaza who talk about what life was like before the October 7, 2023Gaza in Fragments is a documentary short by Al Jazeera Digital that follows three people in Gaza who talk about what life was like before the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas … and how the lives of all Gazans has been forever reshaped by Israel’s war on the occupied territory. This film documents the struggles that the people of Gaza face and their determination, resilience and unbroken commitment to providing care, hope and relief for their people.