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Washington Monthly  on June 19, 2026


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Cornell bans all fraternity parties until fall 2027 amid lawsuit alleging seven Chi Phi members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024
Super Typhoon Champi, 2026's strongest storm at 185 mph, grazed Guam, forced a near-total Taiwan shutdown with 979 flight cancellations and one death
Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries, hitting Ryazan, as the Trump-brokered energy truce collapsed amid a US-Ukraine rift over intelligence sharing
Archaeologists off Turkey's Kekova Island report a possibly 4,700-year-old Bronze Age shipwreck — potentially the world's oldest — dated only by amphora style, pending peer review
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, who chaired the UN inquiry finding genocide in Gaza; hours later the US sanctioned the entire ICC
NASA's Perseverance rover drove 45.2 km on Mars, breaking Opportunity's off-world driving record in just 5.5 years
Kelly Clarkson's viral 'Pretty Woman' complaint against Brooklyn shop Art of Play over a $15,000 bird automaton escalates, with security footage, harassment claims, and Molly repriced at $15 million
Duane "Keffe D" Davis sentenced to 40 years to life on October 13, 2026, for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder; he vows appeal
Houthi missiles and drones killed 13 and wounded 300+ in repeated Riyadh airport strikes, closed the airport, and prompted Trump to weigh joining Saudi retaliation
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model optimized with Apple to run locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios instead of data centers
Trump's Oct. 9 deal easing Russian diesel sanctions faces bipartisan Senate rebuke, GOP midterm defections, European backlash, and analyst skepticism it will lower prices
FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan for allegedly planting hidden recording devices in OpenAI's San Francisco executive conference room
Israeli police arrest 10 suspects after settler attacks injured a Washington Post photographer and European diplomats during the West Bank olive harvest
Talarico's 12-day flu absence triggers Paxton 'proof of life' attacks, viral mental-health conspiracy theories denied by the Ohio facility, as Texas Senate poll shows 45-45 tie
16-year-old kills three children and a teacher at Bend, Oregon's Silver Rail Elementary before an armed community member shoots him dead
Hackers remotely heated refrigerators at hundreds of French and European supermarkets to 50°C, spoiling millions in food and triggering a Paris prosecutors' investigation
















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