On this day in conspiracies

Bramlett Bateman, who manages a plantation along the river in Jackson County, watches a large gray creature surface in a deep eddy near his land for several minutes. He describes it as the width of a car and roughly three car-lengths long, and later signs an affidavit attesting to what he saw.

The Court of Cassation makes Bellini's life sentence definitive, closing the criminal thread on the perpetrators. President Sergio Mattarella, marking the 45th anniversary, calls the massacre an “inhuman, neofascist” attack on Italian democracy.

A 0.5-metre telescope of the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey at Río Hurtado, Chile, reports a fast-moving object, initially catalogued A11pl3Z, to the Minor Planet Center.

The real source footage: video published on 1 July 2026 shows Trump pausing briefly, with one foot in the doorway of the vehicle, before completing an ordinary step inside. He does not stumble to the ground or collapse. This mundane clip is the raw material the later fake is built from.

A week on, reporting tallies the human cost: Venezuela's National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez reports about 2,295 killed and more than 11,200 injured, with numbers still rising and many people missing. Coverage stresses the humanitarian need even as the weapon claims persist.