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FBI managers received notice that the bureau would no longer investigate confrontations involving ICE agents; A Russian city-council candidate broke his spine after jumping from the second story of his apartment building to escape two police officers; and an Ohioan robocop was retired after failing to generate a single police report over the course of ten months. Read More

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Lindsey Graham, who had recently returned from a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, died at the age of 71; a 26-year-old American social-media influencer and self-identifying MAGA communist attended the state funeral and led such chants as “Down with the USA”; and a star 1,300 light-years away swallowed a planet in its orbit and may soon devour another celestial object with 22 times Jupiter’s mass. Read More

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The Brooklyn Bridge briefly caught fire during a fireworks display; two Russian nationals scaled to the top of the spire of the Empire State building in supposed demonstration of the power of love and peace; a British Premier League soccer team donated more than 40 pairs of game-worn socks to a group of horses and donkeys who would wear them as protection from the bites of flies. Read More

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At least eight people were sentenced to a minimum combined 450 years in prison for actions during an anti-ICE protest; in Europe, a major heat wave caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in France, including those of more than 40 swimmers who drowned while trying to beat the heat; and Canadians saw a 38.5 percent increase in confirmed tick reports as more species migrate from the United States. Read More

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It was reported that several San Francisco gay bars use biometric facial-recognition devices, resembling those used by the TSA, to scan entering customers; the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to name June “Traditional Nuclear Family” month; and a set of couples reached a custody agreement after one mistakenly carried and birthed the other’s embryo due to a mix-up at the clinic where both received fertility treatment. Read More

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The president entered the UFC crowd to the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck”; members of the Iranian men’s soccer team disembarked in North America wearing pins to commemorate the 168 people killed by a U.S. military strike on an elementary school in southern Iran earlier this year; and “Right hand of God,” said a power forward of the New York Knicks after his teammate scored a basket that would take them to what would become the final game of the NBA championship. Read More

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The United States House of Representatives passed a bill to allocate aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on the Russian economy; Senator Dan Sullivan enjoined voters not to vote for his rival, also named Dan Sullivan, in the bid for his congressional seat; The U.S. president endorsed a New Jersey representative whose whereabouts have been unknown for months. Read More

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The Bangladeshi government spared an albino buffalo named Donald Trump from religious sacrifice, citing security concerns; a Canadian doctor is under investigation for euthanizing a man he met and medically assessed outside the donut chain Tim Hortons; the White House X account posted a memorial for the ten-year anniversary of the death of Harambe, a gorilla who was shot and killed in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo. Read More

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All charges against a group of anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors were dropped as the top federal prosecutor of Chicago discovered evidence of ICE misconduct during the grand jury process; a Florida biologist was awarded a $485,000 settlement after being fired for reposting a meme criticizing Charlie Kirk’s stance on gun control after his death; and a Florida man who discovered $30,000 in the bathroom of a Wawa returned the money. Read More

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In Norway, a fourteen-year-old boy, in his third bus theft in seven months, stole and drove a bus from Oslo to Kristiansand; in Atlanta, more than a dozen Waymo SUVs turned onto the same dead-end street; and in California, a dancing humanoid robot named Bebop delayed a flight from Oakland to San Diego after the size of its lithium battery was found to exceed airline regulations. Read More

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A local council in Hachirogata, Japan, initiated a no-confidence vote against its mayor, who has been unconscious since February; the mayor of Cohutta, Georgia, fired the town’s entire police force after officers criticized his wife; and it was reported that the U.S. defense secretary has started bringing his wife to meetings at the Pentagon. Read More

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Oil spills from the Iran War can be seen from space, with one spill spanning more than five miles across the Persian Gulf; the U.S. president said Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price” during his review of a new peace proposal from the country; it was reported that the price of eggs has more than doubled in Iran; and the price of gas in the United States has increased by 44 percent since the start of the conflict. Read More

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In Paris, police officers probed possible weather-monitor device tampering after an “unusual” temperature spike coincided with a trader’s cashing in on a Polymarket bet related to the city’s temperature; the gambling platform Kalshi issued fines and suspended three U.S. political candidates from the platform for betting on their own campaigns; and a U.S. special operations soldier was charged with using classified intel to win more than $400,000 on Polymarket bets related to the capture of Venezuela’s president. Read More

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In Los Angeles, California, three people were convicted of insurance fraud after one of them dressed up in a bear costume, broke into their vehicles, and blamed a bear for the damage; a woman sued the town of Surfside Beach, South Carolina, for sending her a cease-and-desist letter warning that she would be arrested if she continued recording interactions between residents and local geese; and it was reported that the band Geese is an industry plant. Read More

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The U.S. president and the rapper Vanilla Ice sat together at a UFC fight in Miami while the vice president announced that the U.S. and Iran had not succeeded at reaching a peace deal; The Trump Administration announced plans to build an arch resembling France’s Arc de Triomphe; and an artificial intelligence company met with Catholic and Protestant leaders for spiritual advice in making its chatbot, Claude, a “child of god.” Read More

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An official investigator of a recent plane crash at LaGuardia International Airport in New York City was stuck in a security line for three hours at a Houston airport en route to the site; airport food vendors worked with the City of Philadelphia Department of Aviation on the longest-ever line of cheesesteaks; a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the former First Lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Philadelphia International Airport; and House Republicans rejected a Senate bill that would have extended funding for the Transit Security Administration, among other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security. Read More

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It was reported that a newly instated top official at FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery claimed that he once teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. In Rome, Italy, the remains of an anarchist couple were found underneath the debris of a cottage after they blew themselves up while making a bomb. Read More

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A woman collapsed at a Trump rally in Kentucky, prompting the president to request “Ave Maria” to be played as Doctor Oz tended to the woman. “It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement,” said the singer Morissey after canceling his concert in Spain owing to sleep deprivation caused by the noise from a traditional Spanish festival taking place near his hotel. Read More

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