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Jeremy Bogaisky — Forbes Officials may have found the reason as to why the Lion Air Flight 610 crashed on October 29 killing all 189 people on board. An automatic anti-stall system seems to have malfunctioned during the flight, which measures the positions of the wings relative to the flow of air.…

— BBC NEWS Sydney has had the heaviest rainfall this November than it has had in the last decade. This substantial rainfall has caused flash floods, traffic disorder, and power outages. Hundreds of flights have been canceled or delayed in response to the rainfall. As of now, 2 individuals have died…

Ryan W. Miller — USA TODAY The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a new E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce. The CDC urges all romaine lettuce to be thrown away and not consumed. 13 people have been hospitalized and 32 people in 11 states have gotten sick since the…

Faith Karimi — CNN Cesar Says, 56, was arrested Friday for shipping at least 14 potential bombs to prominent Democratic figures such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. All the potentially explosive packages were caught before being delivered to their intended targets. Each package was…

Dakin Andone, Jason Hanna, Joe Sterling, and Paul P. Murphy — CNN Robert Bowers, 46, opened fire Saturday morning at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. 11 individuals were killed, and 6 others were wounded, 4 of which were police officers. Police, FBI, and SWAT officers arrived at the scene…

Tom Polansek — Insurance Journal African swine fever is spreading quickly throughout Asia and Europe, causing American hog farmers to increase their safety procedures to try and keep this disease out. U.S. officials are currently in the process of devising new ways to test for the disease. African…

— Chicago SunTimes There have been multiple shootings, unknown to be related to or not, across the city in Chicago on Monday, killing a total of 2 individuals and wounding 12 others. Individuals were shot at while sitting in their cars, sitting on their home porch, walking out of their homes, and…

Maura Hohman — People A rare ‘Polio-Like’ illness, named acute flaccid myelitis, has been surfacing since 2014. However, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rates of this illness have been skyrocketing over the past few weeks. Acute flaccid myelitis affects the…

World Health Organization— reliefweb The Ministry of Public Health of Niger declared a cholera outbreak on July 15, 2018, which initially began with only 3 cases. Since October 1, 2018, there have been an estimated 3692 cases of cholera with 68 deaths that have been reported. Cholera is an…

— BBC News The largest E. coli outbreak since 2006 has killed 5 people, with 197 reported cases across 35 US states. Two of the individuals who died were from Minnesota, one from Arkansas, one from California, and one from New York. According to the FDA, Arizona is believed to be the source of the…

William Branigin and Ashley Halsey III — Washington Post A 38 year old commercial Boeing 737 crashed soon after takeoff, killing more than 100 people. Flight 972 was leaving from Jose Marti International Airport and bound for Holguin, Cuba. Cuban’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, other government…

CBS News — A 17-year-old junior student at Sante Fe High School opened fire killing 10 people and wounding 10 others. This has been the nation's worst shooting since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida earlier this year. 9 students and 1 teacher were killed. Explosives…

Giovanni Torre — The New York Times Four children and three adults have been found dead from gunshot wounds in Perth, Australia Friday morning. The police department is not actively looking for a shooter, as it may possibly have been a murder-suicide, although not confirmed. According to officials,…

Jason Hanna, AnneClaire Stapleton, and Stella Chan — CNN The 21st school shooting this year in the US occurred this morning at a Southern California high school, Highland High School in Palmdale. A 14-year-old boy is suspected to have fired shots at another teenager around 7 AM, wounding his arm,…