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The global food shortage of 2008 — driven by climate change, spiking oil prices, and a rising global population — inspired leading international investors and private firms to secure long-term rights to fertile and resourceful farmland in economically vulnerable regions with stable climates so that they could capitalize on impending production declines.

The 13-year-old anti-trust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice against the multinational technology company International Business Machines Corporation in January of 1969 remains one of the longest and most significant legal cases ever filed in U.S. history.

The use of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 remains the only instance in which nuclear weapons of any kind have been used in armed conflict. The uranium-based bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Little Boy, killed roughly 70,000 people instantly, while the plutonium-based bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, Fat Man, instantly killed roughly 40,000 people.

Eight women who claim to have suffered sexual abuse and forced trafficking at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators filed a federal lawsuit against the United States government in September of 2024, directly implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice in alleged long-term mishandling of the Epstein case.

Since the founding of the democratic Jewish homeland in 1948, Israel's internal assimilation struggles have weakened its shared national identity. The earliest immigrant settlers in Israel, who brought together cultural and geographic backgrounds from all regions of the world, had to navigate the complexities of diverse coexistence - similarly to Israeli citizens today.