In September of 2023, Apple released the green-tagged Apple Watch Series 9, special edition (SE), and Ultra 2. When they launched the watches, according to US News, they stated that “they would be carbon neutral through a combination of lower emissions and purchases of carbon offsets.” 

In early February, President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum and a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods coming to the United States, with supposedly more to come, according to AP News. In addition to the tariffs listed, other tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods have been temporarily put on hold but could come later in the future. 

A recent report by the World Weather Attribution group, which analyzes the influence global warming has on extreme weather events, explained that the recent Southern California wildfires were about 35 percent more probable to occur because of climate change. 

Recently, researchers off the coast of Tenerife, an island in Spain, were astonished when they found a humpback anglerfish or ‘Melanocetus johnsonii’ (black sea monster) at the surface of the ocean in broad daylight. 

The Arctic, which has always been known as an icy and remote wilderness, is undergoing extreme changes as warming in the Arctic continues to increase. Recent news has come out stating that there is drastic warming in the Arctic that could change it beyond recognition— with it now warming four times faster than the global average; climate models also indicate that the decline in sea ice will continue.

Newly inaugurated president Donald Trump has recently signed executive orders directed against transgender and nonbinary individuals with the potential to change their lives. According to PBS, some of the changes that will be made include recognizing people as only men or women, denying requests for passport gender markers, transgender women being moved into men’s prisons, beginning another ban on transgender service members, defunding gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, and more.

On Saturday, Nov. 30, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he intends to nominate Kashyap “Kash” Patel as the new Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) director.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 43 monkeys bred for medical research escaped a compound at the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, South Carolina. While they could not be located for a few days, they were finally spotted in the woods near the medical site, and workers tried to use food to recapture them on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. 

After being vacant for several years, Geneseo's Big Tree Inn at 46 Main Street has finally reopened, with a large turnout on Friday, Oct. 18, including Livonia residents and SUNY Geneseo alumni.

For numerous years, scholars have argued over what the definition of fascism is. Roger Griffen, a widely cited political theorist on the topic and professor of modern history at Oxford Brookes in the United Kingdom, offers one explanation. Griffen states, according to NPR News, that fascism is a “revolutionary form of extreme nationalism,” continuing with, “Fascists themselves want to overthrow either a communist or a traditional conservative or a liberal state to create a new order.”

Former One Direction star Liam Payne died at the age of 31 on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after falling off a balcony at the CasaSur Hotel, where he had been staying. 

On Oct. 1, 2024, the two vice presidential candidates, Republican Senator of Ohio JD Vance and Democratic Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, met for the first time to take the vice presidential debate stage.

On Tuesday, Oct. 8, 14 attorney generals, led by officials in New York and California, filed lawsuits claiming that social media platforms such as TikTok, are damaging young individuals' mental health and “collecting data without their consent.” according to NBC News. 

As former President Donald Trump was golfing near his country club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15, there was a second attack on his life. The individual suspected is Ryan Wesley Routh, who was documented in court camping outside of the golf course, reportedly waiting nearly 12 hours for Trump to appear. 

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jon Bon Jovi was filming a music video at the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee. During the filming, Bon Jovi noticed an unidentified woman in distress as she stood on the ledge of the bridge, showing signs that she might have been attempting to jump off the bridge and take her own life. 

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, it became known to the public that two Russian nationals, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva—who work with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin—transferred millions of dollars to an American company that paid right-wing influencers, “for videos pushing narratives favorable to the Kremlin, U.S. prosecutors,” according to CBS news. Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are both based in Moscow and have been charged with “conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act” after a New York indictment was unsealed. This came after there were numerous allegations that Russia may have been attempting to interfere in the United States 2024 election earlier in the year.