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What Happened Today – June 20, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for a company court records now show was secretly backed by Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family. (NASA photo by Aubrey Gemignani)

A three-time Olympian reached into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to feel a strip of peeling paint, and Park Police led him away in handcuffs. The paint is peeling and the water has gone swamp green, two weeks after a $14 million renovation. Donald Trump ordered the pool drained and repainted, then rushed the job … Read more

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