American electro-pop singer Oliver Tree died on June 14 in a mid-air helicopter collision that killed six people in Rio de Janeiro
The crash is under investigation, but Rio de Janeiro police said early indicators pointed toward human error. https://wapo.st/4a1XjI7
If you have been using X over the last year, you are likely to have seen claims that rent boys were behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's former homes and car
We charted how the *completely false* conspiracy theory spread from far right 'patriots' and conspiracists
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Once strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in the opening hours of the war, President Trump told Iranians that the moment to seize back their nation had come.
An uprising never happened.
It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media
Brasilialainen laitaoikeistolainen puolue omi One Piece tunnuksen ja sekoitti ei kovin onnistuneesti sen omaan Jaguaaritunnukseensa
"Ennallistamalla esimerkiksi soita ja entisiä turvetuotantoalueita voidaan luoda maastoon luonnollisia etenemisesteitä. Samalla edistetään luontokadon pysäyttämistä ja luonnon elpymistä."
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NEW: The number of countries with high or very high social hostilities involving religion increased for the third year in a row
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/06/15/more-countries-had-elevated-levels-of-social-hostilities-involving-religion-in-2023/
NEW: Trump praised Xi and Putin in an NYT interview for helping get the US and Iran to an agreement. What he didn't mention: the State Dept. has imposed sanctions on companies for sending Chinese arms to Iran. And Russia has given intelligence aid to Iran. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later
Important context that Japan is coming from a pretty conservative baseline for LGBT issues. Still, interesting to see, at this time, a conservative government adopting a program to *improve* understanding of queer and transgender people www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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BREAKING:
New from Haberman and Swan:
Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
The emerging agreement ends a costly war but leaves Iran’s leadership intact and its nuclear future still subject to negotiation.
Ympäristöministeriön ja puolustusministeriön johtama työryhmä on arvioinut elinympäristöjen ennallistamisen ja maanpuolustuksen yhteensovittamista sekä tunnistanut keinoja näiden yhteistavoitteiden ed...
