In the early morning of Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024, a 984-foot-long ship collided with a pillar on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. This led to the collapse of the bridge and the disappearance of night shift construction members who were believed to be filling potholes at the time of the collapse. 

On Mar. 11, 2024, it was learned that a fertilizer spill occurred in southwestern Iowa. At least 250,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen spilled “into a drainage ditch and into the East Nishnabotna River, which flows into the Nishnabotna River and then the Missouri River.” 

During the later hours of Friday, Mar. 22, 2024, armed assailants burst into Krasnogorsk’s Crocus City Hall, a music venue in the northwest suburb of Moscow, Russia. The attackers then set the venue ablaze through the use of Molotov cocktails, only after setting off minutes of heavy gunfire. The devastating attack left a growing death toll of 139 people while wounding over a hundred more. The incident unfolded before the Russian rock band Picnic was set to perform in front of a sold-out crowd.

On Feb. 18, 2024, 29-year-old Abdullahi Muya was reported missing to the Rochester Police Department. Over a month later, on Tuesday, March 19, at around 8:00 a.m., the staff of the Highland Park Reservoir noticed Muya’s body below the water, and a police scuba team recovered it thereafter. While the reservoir is fenced, it is rumored that Muya climbed over the fence and then slid down into the water, leading to his death. As of now, there are no suspicions of criminal intent involved in Muya’s death, as nobody seemed to be present at the time of his death. 

On Mar. 22, 2024, it was shared with the world through a short video that 42-year-old, Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing preventative early treatment. 

In December 2019, the European Parliament approved the European Green Deal. This deal is described by the European Union (EU) as, “a package of policy initiatives, which aims to set the EU on the path to a green transition, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050.” Some of the changes this program seeks to achieve include clean energy, creating sustainable emissions—from industry, agriculture, and residential use alike—better building infrastructure, preserving biodiversity, creating alternative energy sources, and financing research on the progression of climate change. 

A spacecraft by the name of Odysseus landed on the moon at 6:23 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, making it the first privately owned American spacecraft to successfully complete a lunar landing. Odysseus, built and managed by Intuitive Machines, took flight on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket a week prior and made several laps around the moon before touching down near the lunar South Pole. 

United States President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump each traveled to the United States-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas on Feb. 29, 2024. While visiting, Biden made a clear effort to try and work alongside Trump on a new immigration bill. Trump, however, seemed uninterested in working together, and has declined Biden’s offer. 

On Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, there was a ruling set by Alabama’s Supreme Court that will significantly affect couples who attempt to conceive in the state. The ruling, although vague, states that embryos are considered minors and that “negligence lawsuits could proceed,” due to this proceeding. Thus, the process of freezing embryos or in-vitro fertilization (IVF) could be considered forms of childbirth within the state. 

Since November 2023, there has been an ongoing legal case over whether former president Donald Trump should still possess the ability to hold and run for office in the upcoming presidential election. Multiple media outlets have added their two cents to the discussion as to whether the Jan. 6, 2020 riot goes against section three of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. According to USAToday, "...the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the race because of the 14th Amendment, Section 3. The post-Civil War-era provision bars anyone who has ‘engaged in insurrection’ from holding office again.”

On Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, at around 11 a.m., a car crashed into the Royal Lady Knight’s (RLK) house—the home of a local sorority at SUNY Geneseo. The residents of the house were understandably startled when their house abruptly shook and the sound of a crash echoed through the rooms of the house and the surrounding area. Katherine Pallavicini—one of the residents of the RLK house—stated, “It felt like an earthquake, I somehow knew there had to be a car somewhere in the house.” Luckily, there were no injuries sustained by the residents of the home, and no known injuries sustained by the driver of the vehicle. 

Following the gas leak that occurred on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, students and their parent(s)/guardian(s) have provided an uptick in questions and concerns about the Emergency Alert System that SUNY Geneseo currently has in place. Geneseo utilizes the NY-Alert Emergency Alert System which is powered by Everbridge, and was established by the New York State Emergency Management Office (SEMO). This system is used by Geneseo and 24 other SUNY state-operated campuses, alongside 28 community colleges in the state. 

There have been new updates relating to the tragedy that left 13 people shot inside and around an east side Buffalo Tops Friendly Market in a premeditated hate crime on May 14, 2022. The shooter, a white male who was 18 years old at the time of the shooting, traveled several hours from his hometown of Conklin, New York, to an eastern Buffalo neighborhood known for having a predominantly black population. It is reported that Payton Gendron wore heavy tactical gear to protect himself and carried a semi-automatic rifle.