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DIED

Bollywood actor

and producer

Dilip Kumar, at

98, on July 7.

> Haunani-Kay

Trask, a leader

of the Hawaiian

sovereignty

movement,

at 71, on July 3.

SPIKED

Oil prices, on

July 6, to their

highest level in

six years, after

OPEC, Russia

and other oil-

producing allies

failed to reach

a deal on

production.

HALTED

U.S. federal

executions, the

Attorney General

said July 1, for

a review of

policies after

the Trump

Administration

executed a

record 13 people.

SENTENCED

Belarusian

opposition leader

Viktor Babariko,

to 14 years in

prison, on July 6,

on corruption

charges his

supporters say

were fabricated.

WON

The Miss

Nevada USA

title, by Kataluna

Enriquez, on

June 27, making

her the first

openly trans

woman set

to compete in

the Miss USA

pageant.

ARRESTED

A spectator

at the Tour

de France, on

June 30, whose

cardboard sign

had caused a

massive bike

crash during the

race’s first leg

four days earlier.

RELEASED

The Ever Given

cargo ship, on

July 7, after

authorities

reached a

settlement over

its blockage of

the Suez Canal

in March.

DIED

Donald Rumsfeld

Led U.S. troops into the

(known) unknown

Had He only a single sTinT as u.s.

Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld would

likely be remembered as a wunderkind who,

under President Gerald Ford in the 1970s, be-

came the youngest man ever to run the Pen-

tagon. But Rumsfeld, who died on June 30 at

88, is instead best known for his second go-

round, as President George W. Bush’s defense

chief, and for his role as the architect of the

nation’s problem-plagued war on terrorism.

Finding someone in Washington who’s

indifferent about Rumsfeld’s legacy is a near

impossibility. To a few, he’s a crafty bureau-

cratic knife fighter who spent four decades

rising to the highest offices in government.

To everyone else, he’s an acerbic, argumenta-

tive leader who set the U.S. in motion toward

unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—

wars that are only now, some 20 years later,

beginning to come to an end.

Although Rumsfeld repeatedly stoked

fears over Saddam Hussein’s supposed weap-

ons of mass destruction ahead of the 2003

inv asion of Iraq, he refused to accept blame

when the arsenal never materialized; his

decision to maintain a “light footprint” of

U.S. forces in the country is believed to have

helped foster conditions that led to violent

insurgency and the deaths of thousands of

Americans and Iraqis. And he was later pillo-

ried for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib

and de tainees at Guantánamo Bay.

This all contributed to Rumsfeld’s even-

tual resignation in 2006. It marked the end

of a tenure in stark contrast to his work for

Ford, when he was widely seen as a reformer

leading initiatives that ultimately helped

end the Cold War. That record, however, was

eclipsed long ago. —W.J. Hennigan

TheBrief Milestones

RELEASED

Bill Cosby

Conviction

overturned

afTer Pennsylvania’s

supreme court on June 30

freed Bill Cosby from the

state prison where he had

been held since being con-

victed of sexual assault in

2018, the disgraced co-

median was quick to offer

himself as an exemplar

of the problem of wrong-

ful convictions. But the

court’s decision to free

him on a procedural mat-

ter included no findings of

innocence.

Procedural claims are

a powerful tool for peo-

ple who are wrongfully

convicted —but those peo-

ple tend to be unable to af-

ford the kind of legal team

Cosby had, notes Samuel

Gross, a co-founder of

the National Registry of

Exonerations. Cases like

Cosby’s “are as similar

to [other trials as] a high

school football game and

the Super Bowl.”

—Janell ross

RUMSFELD: DAVID HUME KENNERLY—WHITE HOUSE/CNP/GETTY IMAGES; COSBY: BASTIAAN SLABBERS—EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK

Rumsfeld, then White House

chief of staff, speaks with

President Gerald Ford in the

Oval Office in September 1974