On this day:
390 BCERoman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
1290
King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1870
The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1925
Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1942
World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
1944
World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1966
Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1969
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."--Thomas Jefferson
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."--Thomas Jefferson
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The Kopechne affair ended the myth of even-handedness in the American political culture, essentially its very raison d'etre. How could the Democrats have survived it?
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New York City government is using racial classifications to guide more than two hundred goals across nearly every agency. Among other things, the plan commits specific percentages of city contracts to be doled out based on race, a continuation of the city’s longstanding policy. Indeed, for the past several years, the city has operated one of the largest race-based contracting programs in the country.
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The Kopechne affair ended the myth of even-handedness in the American political culture, essentially its very raison d'etre. How could the Democrats have survived it?
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New York City government is using racial classifications to guide more than two hundred goals across nearly every agency. Among other things, the plan commits specific percentages of city contracts to be doled out based on race, a continuation of the city’s longstanding policy. Indeed, for the past several years, the city has operated one of the largest race-based contracting programs in the country.
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China is about to open a hotel that runs itself. On an artificial island off the coast near Shenzhen, Pudu Robotics is building the world's first fully robot-serviced hotel, opening in 2027, where every job in the building, from check-in to cooking to cleaning your room, will be handled by machines working in concert.
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Wealthy American families are increasingly seeking to book assets outside the United States — a shift so pronounced that one of Citi’s top wealth executives says she’s never seen anything like it in her career.
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BlackRock's assets under management crossed a record $15 trillion.
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Spirits companies face challenges as consumers reduce drinking, though ready-to-drink cocktails gain popularity.
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The Trump family earned more than $1.4B from crypto last year and moved most of it into stocks and bonds. Retail investors in Trump-backed tokens have lost $2.3B.
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World Cup 2026 hit a record 43M viewers with Fox and Telemundo viewership up 92-122%.
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On the national “gold standard” NAEP exams, NYC's citywide 4th-grade reading proficiency stands at 28%, math at 33%. But black and Hispanic students have proficiency rates less than a third of those of white and Asian students.
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From July 2024 through June 2025, NYC Housing Authority plumber supervisor Jakub Markowski earned $465,000, including $332,000 for nearly 2,600 hours in overtime — more than the mayor and City Council speaker make combined.
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Masayoshi Son has ridiculed opponents of AI for “spitting upwards” as the SoftBank billionaire predicted the technology would account for 20 per cent of global output by 2040.
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66% of higher- and middle-income countries surveyed by Pew Research now have a more favourable view of China than the US, with respondents across 36 nations variously citing US meddling and backsliding.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or about a third of France's total.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101 metric tons, roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
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Canada's per capita charity rate is about one-half that of the U.S.
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India is still the world's fastest-growing major economy at 6.4%
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Today, the annual cost per NYC student has increased to roughly $49,500.
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