KipCast 6/20/2026

S. Korean gov't is considering lowering the maximum age for exemption from criminal punishment from 14 for juveniles who commit violent offenses. [...]

South Korea apologized over the Jang Yun-gi investigation and plans a civilian watchdog with about 100 investigators to oversee police. [...]

South Korea raised its key rate to 2.75% as inflation, housing risks and semiconductor-led growth increased pressure for further tightening. [...]

South Korea's supreme court ordered POSCO to hire most subcontracted workers after recognizing illegal labor dispatch at its steel mills. [...]

S. Korean automaker Hyundai will buy SoftBank's remaining Boston Dynamics stake to accelerate its physical AI strategy and Atlas factory deployment. [...]

In the Picture of the Month from the James Webb Space Telescope, we are taken on a visit to a building site of significant scale. The project is a galaxy [...]

NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 75 crewmembers NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts [...]

A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. [...]

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. [...]

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar. [...]

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]

The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]

A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, [...]
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