Weekly Review

A school in Belgium alerted parents that their children had been playing games they had seen on Squid Game and beating up the losers as a way to approximate killings in the show. Read More

It was announced that pieces of a bridge on which A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie the Pooh books, played with his son will go up for auction at the same house that sold 20 tons of the Berlin Wall. Read More

A U.S. federal judge ordered Facebook to release records of all posts promoting violence against the Rohingya ethnic group that the company had previously declined to share because of privacy concerns. Read More

The pope expressed confusion as to why some cardinals were refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Read More

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington denied responsibility for siccing six zebras on residents of the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Read More

Major General Christopher Donahue was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, marking an end to the United States’ longest war, the cost of which lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee have mentioned only once since September 11, 2001. Read More

Harvard University’s new chaplain is an atheist. Read More

Sri Lanka’s president demoted the country’s health minister, who advocated for sorcery as a treatment for COVID-19. Read More

Dozens of articles written by the co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes were taken down after an investigation revealed that he had serially plagiarized BuzzFeed. Read More

Three people were injured when an iceberg collapsed at Tennessee’s Titanic Museum Attraction. Read More

The Thai government banned frightening news. Read More

Researchers developed a test that can detect a type of brain tumor in urine. Read More

“We just call it the variant,” said the CEO of Delta Air Lines, speaking of the Delta strain of the coronavirus. Read More

A Saharan dust plume reached Texas. Read More

China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the CCP with a mass wedding, a trivia contest, and a speech in which President Xi warned foreign governments that those who interfere in China’s affairs will have their “heads bashed bloody against a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.” Read More

At least 5,000 birds disappeared during a British pigeon race. Read More

It was reported that a West Virginia congressman used campaign funds for 53 purchases at Chick-fil-A. Read More

A White House press corps flight to the G7 summit was delayed because one of the plane’s engines was filled with cicadas. Read More

“Partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy,” said Senator Joe Manchin, announcing that he would vote against his own party’s election reform bill. Read More

Senate Democrats killed a Republican-sponsored bill that forbade the creation of “certain human-animal chimeras.” Read More

More than 100 people lined up outside of an abandoned Bay Area gas station for the chance to sniff a corpse flower in bloom. Read More

Engineers in San Francisco were attempting to silence a loud hum emitted by the Golden Gate Bridge that could be heard 10 miles away. Read More

After a church warden with the keys to a polling location overslept, residents of Oxford, England, cast votes for local elections in the trunk of a car. Read More

Corn prices hit a seven-year high amid fears of scarcity, and, citing increased consumer interest in vitamins, Nestlé purchased Nature’s Bounty. Read More

Reflecting on his time in the White House, Donald Trump told fellow Palm Beach Billionaire’s Row resident Sean Hannity that what he misses the most is “helping people.” Read More

A Czech man turned over to authorities a T-34 tank and a SD-100 tank destroyer as part of a nationwide weapon-amnesty program. Read More

A town in Missouri said that it will consult state law to determine how to fill positions on its board of trustees after an election in which not a single vote was cast. Read More

In Ohio, a 57-year-old manufacturing plant employee was arrested after she texted her sister that a man who had been fired the day before had returned with a gun, which was an April Fools’ Day joke. Read More

After triggering two fire alarms, an illegally installed communal popcorn machine was removed from the North Dakota State Capitol. Read More

The Kremlin announced that the identity of the COVID-19 vaccine administered to Vladimir Putin would remain a secret. Read More