6/25

• Canadian officials announced that their investigation into the Titan submersible implosion will be broadened to explore potential criminal charges (see 6/23).
• 7 rail cars carrying hazardous materials fell into the Yellowstone River after a bridge collapsed.

6/26

• Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis won the national election, giving him a second 4-year term.
• The Guatemalan presidential vote appears to be headed into a runoff after the results indicated that none of the 20 candidates received over 50% of the vote. However, nearly a quarter of the ballots were left blank or contaminated in protest over the election process and the disqualification of early front-runner Carlos Pineda.

6/27

• The Supreme Court Dismissed an appeal by Louisiana’s Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin in defense of the new congressional map that was deemed discriminatory due to the inclusion of only one majority Black congressional district in the state.
• Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to 5 first-degree murder counts in the mass shooting at Club Q (see 12/6).
• Prosecutors filed court documents stating that they will pursue the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger (see 5/17).

6/28

• 5 Mississippi deputies were fired or resigned from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi after being accused of beating and sexually assaulting 2 Black men and shooting one of the men in the mouth.

6/29

• Federal judges temporarily blocked bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Kentucky and Tennessee.
• At least 11 people were killed and 61 were wounded after a missile hit a pizza restaurant in eastern Ukraine.
• Protests spread through France following the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old, who has only been identified as Nahel M., during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb that has a large immigrant population.

6/30

• The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, stating that it was unconstitutional to consider race in college admissions and forcing universities to alter how they pursue racial diversity.
• France’s Interior Ministry imposed curfew in Paris suburbs and deployed 40,000 police officers to contain the violence (see 6/29).
• A federal judge sentenced former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to 20 years in prison for a $60 bribery scheme. 

7/1

• The Supreme Court ruled that businesses can turn away LGBTQ+ clients, creating an exception for laws that ban sexual orientation-based discrimination.
• The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan.
• Over 1,300 protesters were arrested in France during the demonstrations protesting the death of Nahel M (see 6/30).
• Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro was banned from holding public office until 2030 (see 4/14).