Weekly News Quiz

Six out of 10 voters were 50 or older, continuing decades of tradition in which this generation casts ballots at higher rates than their younger counterparts. In some key swing states, the influence of older voters provided the boost that Democratic candidates needed to flip seats. 

Biden’s office announced his diagnosis on May 18, 2025, after increasing urinary symptoms led doctors to investigate a nodule in his prostate. The cancer had already spread to his bones. His Gleason score, which describes how aggressive prostate cancer appears under a microscope, was 9 on a scale of 2 to 10, indicating a high-grade cancer likely to grow and spread quickly.

Inflation cooled slightly in October as consumer prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent, after increasing 0.6 percent in September, according to the government’s closely watched consumer price index, which measures price changes across commonly purchased goods and services.

Though he was considered a preeminent interpreter of Shakespeare and a favorite of such film directors as John Huston, according to the Associated Press, Keach was indelibly linked to Hammer, the character created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane.