Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister

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Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister

Happy birthday, 2000 Year Old Man. Mel Brooks turns 100
The Oscar-winning comedian and filmmaker behind “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” reaches his 100th birthday while continuing to make audiences laugh.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/mel-brooks-turns-100-rcna352106
The Germans are celebrating Mel's birthday, too:
https://www.dw.com/en/comedy-legend-mel-brooks-turns-100/a-19360098
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Looks pretty Fourth Reich to me.

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Food defined social hierarchy in 1776. Here's what was on the table
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/28/nx-s1-5843114/250-colonial-america-1776-food-anniversary
Vesuvius buried these scrolls.
AI is bringing them back.
Once thought to be unreadable, 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls from one of antiquity’s only surviving libraries are finally spilling their secrets—and National Geographic got a first look at what they say.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/herculaneum-scrolls-mount-vesuvius-ai
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un
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