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US transportation, police and hospital systems stricken by global CrowdStrike IT outage
Thousands of air passengers were stranded across the US on Friday morning as a global IT outage grounded major domestic airlines and struck rail services, shipping and police emergency systems, as well as some hospital functions. Microsoft’s Windows system …