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The recent arrest of five British nationals suspected of a foreign‑state‑backed plot against a U.S. airbase highlights how geopolitical shocks can appear abruptly and with limited data. For quantitative traders, such events demand a disciplined approach to incorporating rare, high‑impact signals into large‑scale predictive models. This article shows how the concepts taught in advanced machine‑learning finance courses—high‑dimensional regressions, regularisation, and debiased estimation—can be applied to capture and manage the risk of sudden geopolitical developments. From a Single News Flash to a Feature Set A single headline provides only a binary indicator (event reported / not reported)....