On this day in conspiracies

With no body and no realistic hope, the government swears in John McEwen as caretaker prime minister. A memorial service days later draws one of the largest gatherings of world leaders in Australian history.

Amnesty International publishes an 84-page report on abuses in occupied Kuwait that includes a claim, drawn from unverified accounts, that hundreds of premature babies died after being removed from incubators. The figure lends the incubator story an appearance of independent confirmation it did not have.

Brunel is placed under formal investigation (the French equivalent of indictment) for the rape of minors over 15 and sexual harassment, within a wider probe touching on trafficking and criminal conspiracy. He is held at La Sante prison. He is never brought to trial.

The Justice Department begins releasing records on the statutory deadline. Legislators, Epstein's victims and their lawyers immediately object to the volume of redactions: whole passages and in places whole pages are blacked out.