One of Hollywood's longtime sensations, Sean “Diddy” Combs, was arrested on a count of multiple charges on Sept. 16. The original indictment reads that he is being investigated for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. It is believed that the crimes began in 2008 and continued up until his arrest. 

Over 80 flights were canceled at Miyazaki airport after a buried World War II-era bomb detonated on Wednesday, Oct. 6, on one of the airport's taxiways. The bomb, weighing five hundred pounds and creating a seven-meter by one-meter wide and deep crater, led to no casualties.

Republican former first lady Melania Trump last Thursday appeared to express strong support for abortion rights, potentially exposing a stark division with her husband, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, on a key election issue. Melania Trump seems to have joined a long line of Republican former first ladies who have come out in support of abortion rights, putting them at odds with their husbands' public views. This announcement comes a day after an excerpt of her soon-to-be-released memoir, in which she reportedly takes an even clearer pro-choice stance, was published in a newspaper report.

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. 

Police are investigating what appears to be gunfire damage occurring overnight on Sept. 23 at a Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign Office for Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona. “We can confirm that on 9/23/24, what appears to be damage from gunfire at…a DNC Campaign Office, was discovered,” Tempe police said in a statement to NBC News last week. The incident occurred just a few days before Harris visited Arizona as she campaigns for the upcoming presidential election. 

It has been revealed that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Adams claims he is innocent of the charges and urges New Yorkers not to give up on him until he can prove his innocence. 

After major attacks against the Hezbollah party just earlier this month by Israeli forces, another large-scale strike from Israel has decimated Hezbollah’s current leadership and caused further chaos within Lebanon.

In the second issue of this semester's copy of The Lamron, the Sustainability Corner talked in depth about the damaging effects of “climate breakdown.” For a quick understanding of this article and term, this means “...the wide-scale deterioration of a biome—a region’s native weather, animal, and plant life—resulting from human-caused emissions known for region-wide changes in months…climate breakdown is the accelerated, sudden shift towards devastating biome changes…but drastically more brutal form[s]: Wildfires, floods, and systematic breakdowns [infrastructure collapse]...even been cited as affecting processes like thermohaline circulation…” 

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. 

Last month, Denise Battles, President of SUNY Geneseo, issued a statement declaring, "We cannot and will not take positions on political campaigns or parties." This statement has seemed to have sparked frustration among the student body, many of whom view it as hypocritical given the college's previous political involvement. Many students also believe this statement to have been put out as a response to students encouraging the college to divest from Israel as a show of support towards the Palestinian people harmed and killed as a result of the current conflict.

As news about environmental issues begins to take a backseat for the upcoming Presidential Election, one keenly prevalent issue has been cited multiple times in recent months: Climate breakdown. 

Benny and Susanne Anguiano, a couple from Salinas, California, were reunited with their missing cat after he mysteriously traveled 900 miles over two months. On a trip to Yellowstone National Park in early June, the couple's beloved house cat Rayne Beau—pronounced “rainbow”— was spooked and ran off into the trees. Benny Anguiano told NBC News that a Yellowstone employee stopped by their campsite to warn him that a pack of coyotes had attacked a small dog in the area and that the couple would be lucky if their cat made it through the night. By the time the trip had concluded, Rayne Beau was still missing, Benny Anguiano reported.

An Alaskan native has been arrested on Sept. 18 for threatening to harm six Supreme Court justices, along with their family members. Using a public website controlled by the Supreme Court, Panos Anastasiou had sent around 465 heinous messages to different members and their families. The aggressive messages were being sent as early as the spring of 2023, but in January of 2024, the violence level increased to life-threatening actions, including messages that contained specific details of torture and death.

On Sept. 18, 2024, after two waves of explosions hit Lebanon and parts of Syria, the death toll has risen to 37, along with thousands of injured; a number which has morbidly risen since the time of writing. One facet of these explosions—now being reported as attacks towards the Hezbollah political party and paramilitary group—is causing many to wonder if this could lead to an even more deadly and violent clash in the Middle East.

The two running presidential candidates, Former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris, took to the debate stand for the first time on Tuesday, Sep. 10, just 56 days out from the election. Considering this would be the first time the two candidates would meet face-to-face, tensions ran high with those who tuned in for the live debate.

On Thursday, Sept. 12, two private astronauts, Mission Commander Jared Isaacman and Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis, conducted the first commercial spacewalk. This spacewalk will also test the new SpaceX Extravehicular Activity (EVA) spacesuits for further space-faring missions. Mission Pilot Scott Poteet and Medical Officer/Mission Specialist Anna Menon pilot Polaris to be on standby for any mishaps inside the spacecraft container.

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. 

On Nov. 5, 1856, the French steamship Le Lyonnais was lost forever when a maritime disaster took place, sending the ship to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Massachusetts. Decades later, a marine salvage crew found the wreck of Le Lyonnais about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts in late August of this year. The discovery of the steamship follows years of work to locate it and also represents a new beginning, said Jennifer Sellitti, a spokesperson for Atlantic Wreck Salvage. According to Sellitti, the next steps are to document the wreck site, map it, and determine what artifacts can be brought to the surface.

Earth Day has come and gone, and many on campus are thinking about ways to make themselves and their respective greenspaces more eco-friendly and anti-omission in the hopes of lowering their carbon footprint. What the masses don’t know is that these sustainable steps have only a minimal effect on the overall system.