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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

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Abdul Hakim Haqqani The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders Hibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani (pictured) over their alleged persecution of women in Afghanistan. Flooding in Central Texas, United States, leaves at least 130 people dead. Astronomers announce the discovery of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object passing through the Solar System. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope. Ongoing: Gaza war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Ian Blair Lee Elia Bradman Weerakoon Joe Coleman Humaira Asghar Helena Tattermuschová

Featured picture for February 22, 2008

Picture of the day A bouncing ball captured with a stroboscopic flash. As the ball falls freely under the influence of gravity, it accelerates downward, its initial potential energy converting into kinetic energy. On impact with a hard surface the ball deforms, converting the kinetic energy into elastic potential energy. Each impact of the ball is a partially inelastic collision, meaning that energy is lost at each bounce.Photo credit: Michael Maggs