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2024
Hurricane Milton
This image portrays a drawing of the path of Hurricane Milton, starting in the Gulf of Mexico, crossing through Florida, and back out into the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast as an intense Category 3 storm on the evening of October 9, 2024. Starting as an intense Category 5 tropical storm, Emergency declarations were made by the Biden Administration on October 5th and more than…
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Hurricane Helene
Satellite imagery Hurricane Helene Florida US

Several U.S. Southeastern states were hit with unprecedented rains and flooding when category 4 Hurricane Helene touched ground along the Florida Gulf Coast. The Biden Administration has declared Major Disaster declarations for Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina (FEMA). Residents of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee have experienced…
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Attempted Assassination of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump
Attempted Assassination of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump

On September 15, 2024, an assassination attempt was made on former President Donald Trump after a person with a firearm was spotted at his West Palm Beach golf course. This follows a previous attempt on Trump’s life in July 2024 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The suspect, Ryan…
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CrowdStrike Outage
This vectored image portrays a laptop with a blue screen, partially covered by a red triangle with an exclamation showing an alert for a software issue.

A faulty content update caused a system crash for Windows hosts on the CrowdStrike cybersecurity company’s CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. This event affected critical infrastructure worldwide, including airlines, banks, and hospitals. According to CrowdStrike’s blog, the “sensor configuration update that caused the system crash was remediated” within an hour and a…
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