operation
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The worm was discovered in 2010 and that attack is widely viewed as the first cyber operation to cause physical destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Santa Clara-based Great America’s last day of operation will be Labor Day 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
It sparked a massive search-and-rescue operation, with more than 250 first responders at the scene in Brooklyn, trying to find survivors who may have been trapped under the rubble of the three-storey building.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Nvidia’s board already this week launched an independent investigation into whether Huang was the target of a foreign-intelligence operation.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
The operation had been a success, and Daisy was learning to walk.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Low-level information gathering is paired with large-scale online operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said the US Coast Guard also supported local rescue operations.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Homeland Security declined to comment on the canceled deportation flight or confirm future removal operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The talks are complicated by two other impending vacancies on the ECB's executive board -- chief economist and market operations head.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Following the outcry over the Lusitania, Germany imposed strict limitations on submarine operations, pledging to warn those on board a vessel about to be attacked so they could abandon ship beforehand.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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