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Recent Examples of shootingsStill, to quickly group all those shootings together is to obscure how this particular shooting has affected this particular church with its particular past.—Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025 The same user told Holly to get a patch with a Nazi-era symbol that suspects wore in the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings and the 2022 Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, according to the ADL.—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025 The Chicago shootings occurred less than a day after one person was killed and five others wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in a mass shooting at an outdoor gathering in Baltimore, Md.—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2025
In the leadup to the deadline to fund the government this week, the White House directed agencies to prepare for mass firings in the event that Congress couldn’t reach a deal, rather than furloughing those not deemed essential as in past shutdowns.
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Connor Greene,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Of the 55 firings, 18 resulted in the school finding itself in the AP Poll sometime in the following season.
The Global Burst Detection system, a set of specialized payloads hosted on US GPS satellites, has been monitoring the planet for signs of nuclear detonations for over 60 years.
Lithuania on Wednesday accused Russia of being behind the detonations of parcels carried by DHL and DPD in Europe in 2024 as part of a test run for to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.
Attack largest of war on Lviv, Governor says A Reuters correspondent heard explosions booming across the dark morning sky as air defenses engaged targets from several directions.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
Jump cuts punctuated by the sound of explosions move us incrementally downstream, ultimately out and over the Pacific Ocean.
Some over-the-top emergencies have included earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, train collisions releasing toxic fumes into the air, volcano eruptions, even a bizarre porta potty rescue.
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Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Oct. 2025
These spirals of solar wind can lead to large solar eruptions that can affect astronauts in orbit and key technological infrastructure on Earth.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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