Current Events of October

              Secret Service Director Resigns after the White House Security Breach on Oct.1. Julia Pierson, resigned days after the House committee hearing examined how the U.S. Secret Service failed to prevent the intrusion into the White House last month and uncovered other lapses in security.

               Law enforcement in the U.S. shut down the Silk Road, an internet marketplace for various illegal activities including the illicit drug trade, and arrested its alleged principal, Ross Ulbricht.