On this day in conspiracies

At about 1:00 a.m., Loveland police officer Ray Shockey is driving on Riverside Drive near the Totes factory and the river when an animal crosses the road in his headlights. He describes it as roughly three to four feet long, perhaps 50 to 75 pounds, with leathery skin, crouched low like a frog before standing erect and climbing over the guardrail toward the water.

President Ebrahim Raisi frames the episode as a security plot by Iran's enemies to sow chaos and fear. Officials increasingly blame foreign adversaries and 'dissident media' rather than any domestic actor.

X announces it will demonetize for 90 days any account that shares AI images of armed conflict without disclosing they are artificially generated, an acknowledgment of how large the problem has grown.