On this day in conspiracies

Extradited to the United States, Sheela and Puja enter Alford pleas (conceding the evidence would convict them without admitting guilt) to charges including the salmonella contamination and the poisoning of the county officials. They receive concurrent sentences and are each released after roughly 29 months.

ESA's Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera images Cydonia in full color and 3D stereo, producing a complete terrain model of the mesa from multiple angles and sun positions.

Anders Behring Breivik murders 77 people in Norway, eight in an Oslo bombing and 69 at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island, after distributing a 1,500-page manifesto that places the Eurabia conspiracy at its center and lists Bat Ye'or among his influences.

Gates directly denies the claim, telling CNBC there are no chips or anything of the kind connected to the vaccines. He later says strangers still shout at him in public that he is tracking them, a measure of how durable the story became.

Google confirms it has fired Lemoine, saying he violated employment and data-security policies, and repeats that his claims about LaMDA were “wholly unfounded” and were reviewed at length before dismissal.

Through July the fight stays in court and on Capitol Hill: the department presses an appeal rather than fully comply with the June order to unredact, survivors publicly fault acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after a meeting he was pressed into holding, and Vice President JD Vance concedes the administration 'mishandled' the release. By late July the controversy has reorganized around a striking inversion: the administration that promised the files, under a President who had campaigned on releasing them, is now the party working to keep parts of them dark, and the backlash has spread into his own base.

The Apollo Gallery reopens to the public, its cases empty of the stolen jewels. By this point the Sora clips have become a standard classroom example of how convincing AI video can fill an information vacuum around a real event.