Pop-Up Political

Week Forty: 6/18-6/24

6/18

  • The South Carolina GOP voted to push back the state’s Republican primary until February 2024 in order to give the candidates more time to campaign across the state.
  • Ceasefire in Sudan began after an airstrike killed at least 17 citizens.

6/19

  • At least 1 person was killed and 20 were injured following a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Chicago.

6/20

  • The Canadian and U.S. coast guards launched a rescue mission after a submarine attempting to see the wreckage of the Titanic went missing.
  • Russia began a new trial against Alexei Navalny, who is serving a 9-year prison sentence for violating his parole and is accused of creating an extremism network and financing extremist activities, which could keep him imprisoned for up to 30 additional years.

6/21

  • A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
  • Andrew Tate and his younger brother Tristan Tate were formally charged with human trafficking and rape.
  • At least 41 people died in a riot at a women’s prison in Honduras. 

6/22

  • Daniel Rodriguez was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for attacking a D.C. police officer with a stun gun during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  • ProPublica reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose his flight on billionaire Paul Singer’s private jet to a luxury lodge in Alaska owned by another Republican donor, who did not charge Alito for his stay. Additionally, when Singer had a hearing before the Supreme Court in 2012, Alito did not recuse himself from the case.

6/23

  • The 5 people on the submarine that went missing while on a tourism expedition to the wreck of the Titanic were killed after the vessel imploded thousands of feet down in the North Atlantic (see 6/20).

6/24

  • At least 11 people were injured after a plane at Hong Kong International Airport aborted its takeoff.
  • 31 miners were killed following a methane gas explosion in May, but the incident is only becoming known now after the victims’ families began reporting their loved ones missing.