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[Regnum Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a crowd in Chicago, USA. At least 20 people were injured in the incident, and four died, ABC reported.
The incident occurred late in the evening on June 19 local time (7:00 a.m. Moscow time on June 20). Two men drove an SUV toward a crowd of people in the Princeton Park neighborhood in the south of the city and opened fire, firing approximately 100 shots.
The attackers managed to escape. An investigation has been launched.
The wounded were hospitalized. One of the injured was a 17-year-old boy. Another wounded person, a 26-year-old man, is in critical condition.
Shooting incidents occur regularly in the United States. Earlier in June, one person was killed and 11 were injured in a shooting in the West Texas city of Midland. The shooter died. Authorities have not released a motive.
Also in June, a mass shooting occurred near the Old West End festival in Ohio. At least 12 people were hospitalized, two of whom were in critical condition. Local police stated that the incident was caused by two people shooting at each other.
[Jpost] Three people were killed on Saturday after their single-engine aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Bowie, Maryland, according to Maryland State Police.
The three people on board were Israelis, according to Israeli media reports on Sunday, citing the Foreign Ministry.
Police did not release the identities of the deceased, all of whom were declared dead on the scene.
The pilot and passengers of the small aircraft were on a training flight when the crash occured, NBC reported, noting that the aircraft belonged to a Montgomery County flight school.
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Suggesting we've seen other groups of foreign nationals taking flight training that didn't end well. These may have been trying terrain masking, or just got too low and into the trees.
**Three people died** in a plane crash in **Bowie, Maryland**, late Saturday night, **June 20, 2026**. The **single-engine Piper Cherokee** crashed into a wooded area near **Archer Park** in **Prince George's County**, approximately 20 miles east of Washington D.C.
Authorities believe the aircraft was on a **training flight** from **Ocean City, New Jersey**, to **Montgomery County Airpark**. The **pilot** and **two passengers**, identified as **Israeli nationals**, were pronounced dead at the scene. The crash site was located just behind a residential townhome community; however, **no injuries were reported** on the ground.
The **National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)** and **Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)** are leading the investigation into the cause of the crash. The incident was initially detected via an **iPhone crash notification** sent to emergency services around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck off the coast of the Greek island of Crete on June 20, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported
The earthquake's epicenter was 108 km northwest of Heraklion. Its source was at a depth of 13 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage, and no tsunami threat was issued.
The day before, on June 19, a series of earthquakes occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Kamchatka. Over ten tremors were recorded off the peninsula's coast within an hour, with magnitudes ranging from 3.6 to 6.9. Most of the epicenters were located 140–180 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
In May, Greek media reported that fans of the American band Metallica caused microseismic tremors during a concert in Athens. More than 80,000 people attended the concert. The Athens Geodynamic Institute recorded small tremors. Experts explained that these tremors, known as concert tremors, are caused by the coordinated movements of the crowd at the event.
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[Regnum] Millions of Brazilians received messages from what appeared to be the National Civil Defense Service containing the word "misanthropy" on the night of June 19-20. The agency quickly explained that it was a hacker attack. Brazil's National Civil Defense Service, in a statement on social media platform X, said the platform that sends out alerts was taken down after a hack that resulted in remote messages from an unknown source being sent to cities across the country.
"The message sent was classified as 'emergency alert' and contained the word 'misanthropy'... This is likely a hacker attack," the agency commented.
According to local media, someone received a more specific message: "Beware: alien attack. People, we have arrived."
Experts explained that work to restore the warning system is underway.
The strange text and audio messages, some of which mentioned an "alien attack," were misspelled.
Previously, hackers from the Cyber Serp group compromised over 200,000 computers in Ukraine using phishing. The group sent malware-infected "security emails" impersonating the Ukrainian state computer emergency response team (CERT-UA).
In 2025, hackers broke into the phone of White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles. Her number began sending messages containing grammatical errors and in an uncharacteristic tone, along with requests for money transfers and questions about US President Donald Trump. After this, it became clear that the phone had been compromised.
[ZERO] Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms.
Originally, CIA analysts concluded that COVID-19 likely came from a high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China located near where the first cases were detected in late 2019, senior CIA officer James Erdman III told lawmakers in May. Over the span of five days in 2021, however, Edman says the agency changed its stance to 'neutral.'
Then in September of 2024 during a private briefing between intelligence officials and members of Congress, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) inquired as to how the agency came to the conclusion that lab-origin vs. natural origin were about equal, according to yesterday's document release by outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
In response, an unnamed CIA employee told Wenstrup that "he made the call to stop the shift to lab because [redacted] had come in the day before they were ready to publish which made them back off the call," according to a summary of the briefing compiled by an intelligence official.
As the Epoch Times notes further, officials said in a declassified assessment based on information through August 2021 that only one agency - which was not the CIA, based on details since made public - favored a lab origin for COVID-19.
An updated assessment released in mid-2023 states that the CIA was unable to determine the origin of COVID-19 because both the lab and natural origin theories "rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting."
The CIA said in 2025 that a lab origin for COVID-19 was "more likely." The Trump administration maintains that COVID-19 came from the lab in China.
[Just The News] Georgia's Senate Democrats on Saturday opposed bills that would address the state's voting system and local sales taxes for property tax relief.
Senate Bill 3EX nonetheless passed the full body, including a new amendment requiring hand recounts of the top two races in an election.
Democrats had already opposed the bill in the Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday, saying it did not guarantee their party would have a seat on a commission that would create the new voting system. They also rejected the amendment.
The bill, which advanced from the Senate Ethics Committee, creates a nine-member committee to recommend a new voting system. It also extends the deadline for Senate Bill 189 from July 1 to Jan. 1, 2028. The General Assembly passed the bill in 2024, but did not fund or create an alternative method for counting ballots. SB3EX also expands the number of races for post-election audits.
Gov. Brian Kemp's call for the special session says it is to "address issues created by the July 1, 2026, effective date for the changes" to Senate Bill 189.
Senators passed the bill 33-19 along party lines. It goes to the House Governmental Affairs Committee, which will hear it on Monday. A full House vote could happen Monday afternoon if the committee advances it.
Senate Democrats also voted against local legislation that would allow more than 80 cities and counties to ask their voters to approve a penny sales tax that would offset property taxes.
Augusta Democrat Harold Jones II said the sales tax proposal shows that Democrats and Republicans have two different visions of Georgia.
"One actually wants to increase those sales taxes and when people go to the grocery store, it does add up quite a bit," Jones said. "And one that actually says we're going to help people."
The bills needed a two-thirds vote of the Senate to pass and failed twice: first in a consent calendar vote that included all the bills, and then in attempts to pass them individually. The chamber considered three of the individual bills before adjourning, after all three failed.
The bills were also rejected by House Democrats. The House will reconsider the bills on Monday.
Senate Minority Leader Kim Jackson of Stone Mountain said the amendment would burden the state's 159 counties. Jackson used Fulton County, the state's largest county, and this year's general election as examples.
"Fulton County will have to hire a ton of people to come in and hand count each, every ballot for both the U.S. Senate race and the gubernatorial race," Jackson said. "A party that talks about being a conservative party is adding an incredible amount of expense on top of every single county by requrining them to have to hand count these ballots."
Jackson later called the process a "sham and a waste of taxpayers' dollars."
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Let me reword this some for better clarity.
Fulton County will have to hire Impartial, rather than politically bias election personnel. Finding such US Citizens may take a few months.
Food For Thought
The USA as technically advance as it is.
Still takes longer to count its election votes in Democrat controlled areas and with less accuracy than most South American and Africa nations.
[JP] The US Air Force on Wednesday awarded production contracts to General Atomics and Anduril Industries to build its first fleet of semi-autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), moving a program that began just over two years ago from prototype to full-scale manufacturing.
The department awarded production contracts to both companies — General Atomics for the FQ-42 and Anduril for the FQ-44, the Air Force said, without disclosing the cost or size of the order.
The contracts were awarded months ahead of schedule, a sign that both aircraft meet mission requirements and are ready for manufacturing.
"By moving fast from competitive selection into full-scale manufacturing, we position ourselves to field highly credible and combat-ready semi-autonomous systems to stay ahead of the pacing challenge," said Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink. "These contracts reaffirm our confidence in the strategic path forward for the program to procure over 150 combat capable CCA by the end of the decade."
In a press release, Anduril said that the contract "establishes a structure for the Air Force to buy additional lots of production FQ-44 aircraft across the next several years, providing a clear path for the Air Force to rapidly and affordably expand fighter capacity."
Alongside the hardware contracts, the Air Force simultaneously moved forward on the software side of the program, awarding mission autonomy production contracts to a pool of six vendors: Anduril, General Atomics, Lockheed MartinLMT.N, Northrop GrummanNOC.N, RTX's RTX.N Collins Aerospace, and Shield AI.
In a notable departure from traditional Pentagon procurement, the Air Force is pursuing a strategy it calls "software sold separately," deliberately decoupling the purchase of the CCA's mission autonomy software from its airframe.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms. 
