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Volume 21, Issue 8 — 2025-06-24 News and notes: Happy 7 millionth! In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks? Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA2 debriefing Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3) Comix: Hamburgers

Wednesday, June 25, 202509:05 (UTC)

Vera Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory (pictured) in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-meter (28 ft) telescope. In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals. An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people. The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby Pacific final. Ongoing: Gaza war Iran–Israel war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Lucien Nedzi Anne Burrell Frederick W. Smith Ron Taylor Mohammad Kazemi Marita Camacho Quirós

Featured picture for March 22, 2007

Picture of the day Three Richard's Pipit (Anthus richardi) chicks in a nest. This species of pipit is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in Siberia. It is a long distance migrant moving to open lowlands in South Asia, East Africa and Australia. It is a rare but regular vagrant to Western Europe.Photo credit: Benjamint444