On this day in conspiracies

Dahl says that the following morning a man in a dark suit approached him, described the sighting in detail, and warned him not to talk about what he had seen. Recounted later, the episode becomes one of the earliest stories cited in Men in Black folklore.

In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court holds 5–4 that obtaining historical cell-site location records is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant, ruling that the 'third-party doctrine' does not automatically strip location data of protection. The decision becomes the legal foundation for later fights over phone-location surveillance.

In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the government's acquisition of a person's historical cell-site location records from a phone carrier is a Fourth Amendment “search” that generally requires a warrant, recognizing the sensitivity of long-term location tracking.

A remotely operated vehicle locates a debris field about 500 meters from the Titanic's bow. The Coast Guard announces the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the pressure chamber and that all five aboard are presumed dead. It is later disclosed that a US Navy acoustic system had detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion around the time contact was lost on 18 June.

Argentina play Austria in a group match near Dallas, Texas. An image spreads on X purporting to show Benjamin Netanyahu in the stands wearing an Argentina jersey. It is shared as proof he attended; in fact he was hosting meetings in Jerusalem that day.

Japan's Supreme Court upholds a court-ordered dissolution of the Unification Church's Japan branch over its solicitation of exorbitant donations, the culmination of scrutiny that intensified after Abe's killing. The ruling concerns the church's fundraising practices; it makes no finding that the group ordered or staged the assassination.