On this day in conspiracies

New Zealand police, following up a suspicious campervan and its Swiss-passport-holding occupants, arrest a couple travelling as 'Alain and Sophie Turenge'. They are in fact DGSE officers Major Alain Mafart and Captain Dominique Prieur.

VRS forces begin systematically separating men and boys from women, children, and the elderly at Potocari. Over the next days, captured and detained males are bused to execution sites and killed in organized groups at warehouses, farms, a dam, and school buildings.

Jenna Hewitt of Montauk and three friends find a strange carcass on Ditch Plains beach, two miles east of the village. It is hairless, swollen, and roughly dog-sized, with an odd snout and clawed forelimbs. One of them jokes that it might be something from Plum Island. A photograph is taken.

Days after Epstein's federal arrest in New York, Acosta resigns as US Labor Secretary amid bipartisan criticism of his handling of the 2008 deal, saying he did not want to be a distraction to the administration.

NASA releases the first full-color images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope, including the deep field “Webb's First Deep Field,” opening an unprecedented view of galaxies in the early universe.

UNESCO inscribes the Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan on the World Heritage List, the first World Heritage site in Brittany, recognizing a serial property of hundreds of monuments built across the Neolithic.

The AAIB releases its preliminary report. It documents that the two engine fuel-control switches moved from RUN to CUTOFF about a second apart, seconds after liftoff, and that both engines lost thrust. It records a cockpit exchange in which one pilot asks why the fuel was cut off and the other replies that he did not do so. The report does not identify which pilot spoke, does not establish why the switches moved, and reaches no conclusion on cause.

McConnell breaks his silence with a statement and a photograph, saying he had a fall that left him briefly unconscious and that he also had a mild case of pneumonia, and that he has moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center to regain strength. A conservative commentator says he spoke with McConnell by phone. The released photo itself becomes contested, with some analysts seeing no clear sign of fabrication and others' detection tools flagging possible AI artifacts.

Activist Laura Loomer suggests Graham may have been poisoned by Russia, demands an immediate toxicology examination, and later widens the possibilities to Iran, citing past Iranian threats against him. Other posts variously blame Ukraine and Israel. None offer evidence beyond the timing.