Morning Brief — 2026-08-29

Generated overnight on 2026-08-29.

Sources Covered in this Episode

• Defence Blog - Main · By Colton Jones
  U.S. Air Force taps small Alabama firm for AIM-120X missile parts deal
• Defence Blog - Main · By Colton Jones
  U.S. Army buys mystery drones from little-known Integrate DG
• Defence Blog - Main · By Colton Jones
  Pentagon spends $241 million upgrading F-35’s engine
• Defence Blog - Main · By Emily Ryan Miller
  ESOX unveils completed X2 UGV for military testing
• Financial Times - World
  US campaign to isolate Iran closes in on Dubai
• Hacker News - Main
  Autistici/inventati: Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)
• Financial Times - World
  What the Indiana state fair reveals about Trump’s America
• BBC - World
  Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets
• NYT - Top Stories · By Jeanna Smialek and Amelia Nierenberg
  Why Iceland and Others Might Want In, Not Out, of the E.U. Club
• Hacker News - Main
  e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme
• Hacker News - Main
  Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
• Financial Times - World
  ‘In a flash, everything was gone’: Nepal rushes to rescue flood survivors
• BBC - World
  Forget Starbucks coffee - Gen Z like their drinks ice cold
• NYT - World News · By Jiawei Wang and Zane Irwin
  See Moments After a Glacier Collapsed, Launching Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal
• NYT - Top Stories · By Amelia Nierenberg
  Icelanders Are Voting on E.U. Membership Talks. Here’s What to Know.
• NYT - World News · By Anupreeta Das
  Modi Is Hedging Against Trump, One Deal at a Time
• Financial Times - World
  Risk of a new age of financial repression is rising
• Financial Times - World
  Football clubs’ race for data creates bright spot in Britain labour market
• Financial Times - World
  The end of cheap food has costs far beyond the grocery store
• Financial Times - World
  Raphaël Glucksmann, the French left’s new hope
• Financial Times - World
  Zero-sum thinking will fuel resentment and scarcity
• Financial Times - Main
  Glencore threatened with $1.4bn lawsuit from embattled trader Radiant
• Financial Times - World
  How finance redeemed itself
• Financial Times - World
  English wine reaps rewards of heatwave but extreme weather brings risk
• Financial Times - World
  Fancy lattes whip up their own mini investment boom
• Financial Times - Main
  Airbus seeks US space unit sale as it shifts to European-built satellites
• Financial Times - Main
  Nasa to launch $4.3bn space telescope to scan universe
• Financial Times - World
  The brilliant trick behind Rome’s Big Four pastas
• Financial Times - World
  American Scoundrel — Roy Cohn’s long shadow over the White House
• Financial Times - World
  A pioneering voyage up Colombia’s greatest river
• Financial Times - World
  FT stock picking game results: the unexpected triumph of fundamentals
• Financial Times - Main
  Did AI write this? It’s getting harder to tell
• BBC - World
  Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
• The Hill - News · By Sarah Davis
  ICE plans to spend $2 million on dog-like robots for immigration enforcement
• WSJ - US Business · By Rebecca Feng
  How Xi Jinping Turned Oil From a Weakness Into a Geopolitical Weapon
• WSJ - Markets · By Rebecca Feng
  How Xi Jinping Turned Oil From a Weakness Into a Geopolitical Weapon
• WSJ - World News · By Rebecca Feng
  How Xi Jinping Turned Oil From a Weakness Into a Geopolitical Weapon
• BBC - Business
  Trump hails 'historic' deal for US to control 65bn barrels of Venezuela's oil
• NYT - Business · By Rebecca F. Elliott, Simon Romero and Edward Wong
  Trump Says U.S. Has Deal for Control of Large Share of Venezuela’s Oil
• Hacker News - Main
  TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
• The Hill - News · By Sarah Davis
  Vance, Zeldin ask for EPA probe into East Palestine train derailment response
• WSJ - Politics · By Marianne LeVine
  The White House teleprompter operator under investigation for placing bets using proprietary information faces penalties from Kalshi and federal regulators after reaching a settlement
• WSJ - Markets · By Marianne LeVine
  White House Teleprompter Operator Settles Insider-Trading Probe
• NYT - US Politics · By Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper
  Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens
• NPR - World · By The Associated Press
  Trump says U.S. has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
• NYT - US News · By Richard Sandomir
  George Cave, C.I.A. Agent With a Role in Iran-Contra, Dies at 97
• Hacker News - Main
  Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop
• Washington Post - Business · By Evan Halper, Karen DeYoung, Anthony Faiola, Samantha Schmidt
  Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry
• Hacker News - Main
  Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
• NYT - US Politics · By Chris Cameron
  Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel
• NYT - US Politics · By Luke Broadwater
  Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts
• Hacker News - Main
  StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
• The Hill - News · By Sarah Davis
  Canadian broadcaster reverses policy barring use of 'terrorist attack' label for 9/11
• BBC - World
  Somali piracy surges as the impact of the US-Iran war ripples outwards
• The Hill - News · By Filip Timotija
  Hegseth blocks promotions of 4 Army officers with ties to sacked generals
• NYT - Business · By Ishani Desai
  Walmart to Pay $50 Million to Settle Opioid Lawsuit, US Says
• Financial Times - World
  The Chinese brand that wants to lead Europe’s trail-running pack
• WSJ - Politics · By Shelby Holliday
  The U.S. has rushed so many munitions to the Middle East to fight Iran that planners are concerned the loss of firepower is diminishing the military’s ability to defend against potential threats from China and Russia, U.S. officials said
• WSJ - Politics · By Philip Wegmann
  President Trump is on a mission to burnish his legacy, according to his advisers. But Republicans privately worry that his focus on himself is backfiring with voters.
• WSJ - US Business
  Power, Betrayal and the Fall of Leon Black
• WSJ - Markets
  Power, Betrayal and the Fall of Leon Black
• WSJ - World News · By Shelby Holliday
  Drain on U.S. Munitions From Iran War Raises Fears Over Ability to Deter China, Russia
• NYT - World News · By Mack Liederman
  Nepal’s Hydropower Industry Was Booming. Now 900 Workers Are Missing.
• NYT - US News · By Ishani Desai
  Police Make Surprise Discovery of Stolen Statue of Olympic Gymnast Sunisa Lee
• BBC - World
  Close race as Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
• NYT - Top Stories · By Shawn Hubler and Maxine Joselow
  Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer
• BBC - World
  Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
• Financial Times - World
  Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
• BBC - World
  How 'Book Queen' Dolly Parton inspired millions of children with gift of reading
• BBC - World
  Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spy
• Financial Times - World
  Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok
• BBC - World
  What tariffs will really cost Canadians and Americans
• NPR - National · By Juliana Kim
  Sae Joon Park, a Purple Heart veteran who self-deported, receives pardon
• WSJ - US Business · By Elias Leight
  The Trailblazing Business Savvy That Built Dolly Inc. Into an Empire
• The Hill - News · By Joseph Choi
  RFK Jr. questions measles deaths in Pennsylvania
• Politico - White House · By By Megan Messerly, Scott Waldman and Ben Lefebvre
  Trump says US has a deal to take huge stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves
• BBC - World
  Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universities
• NYT - Top Stories · By Vanessa Friedman and Jacob Bernstein
  Critics Blast Metropolitan Museum’s Plan to Honor John Galliano
• Hacker News - Main
  Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
• The Hill - News · By Rachel Frazin
  Trump says he secured ‘majority US control’ of large slice of Venezuela’s oil reserves
• The Hill - News · By Filip Timotija
  Trump to give speech at Pentagon for 25th anniversary of 9/11
• Hacker News - Main
  9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
• Hacker News - Main
  I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
• The Hill - News · By Rachel Frazin
  Trump eyes Yosemite land swap
• TechCrunch - Main · By Kirsten Korosec
  Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
• NYT - Business · By Lauren McCarthy
  Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says
• WSJ - Politics · By Danny Dougherty
  The balance of power in the House is on the line in the 2026 elections. Here are the races that could determine House control.
• BBC - US/Canada
  Tennessee governor plans to name Nashville airport after Dolly Parton
• Hacker News - Main
  Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
• WSJ - US Business · By Mike Cherney
  Singapore Found a Way to Beat Gridlock, but Some Cars Cost as Much as Real Estate
• WSJ - World News · By Mike Cherney
  Singapore Found a Way to Beat Gridlock, but Some Cars Cost as Much as Real Estate
• The Hill - News · By Rachel Frazin
  Trump administration moves to relax fuel efficiency standards for commercial trucks
• TechCrunch - Main · By Lucas Ropek
  Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?
• The Hill - News · By Rachel Frazin
  Trump considers giving away part of Yosemite to private company
• NYT - Top Stories · By Peter Baker
  For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace
• The Hill - News · By Miranda Nazzaro
  Meta settlement puts pressure on competitors
• NYT - Top Stories · By Anupreeta Das, Sajal Pradhan and Atul Loke
  Nepali Flood Survivors Face Profound Loss, Pressing Needs and Murky Futures
• NYT - Top Stories · By James Glanz and Simon Ducroquet
  Unstable Manhattan Building Had More Damaged Columns Than Previously Known
• Axios - Main Feed · By Holly Otterbein
  Scoop: AOC shakes up team ahead of 2028 decision
• Financial Times - World
  Walmart to pay $50mn to settle opioid lawsuit with US justice department
• The Hill - News · By Sarah Davis
  Trump attacks New York Times over report on 9/11 remembrance plans
• Washington Post - Business · By Lauren Kaori Gurley
  The labor market was weaker early in Trump’s term, data shows
• BBC - US/Canada
  Watch: Marchers reflect on voting rights 63 years after 'I have a dream' speech
• The Hill - News · By Miranda Nazzaro
  Appeals court rules states can regulate prediction market platforms like gambling
• The Hill - News · By Joshua Feldstein
  Jelly Roll explains political beliefs after Trump roasts: I'm 'down the middle'
• The Hill - News · By Sophie Brams
  Trump administration appeals latest temporary block on mail-in voting changes
• WSJ - Technology · By James Freeman
  Opinion | Artificial Criticism of Artificial Intelligence?
• WSJ - US News · By The Editorial Board
  Opinion | Kevin Warsh: the Hawk at Jackson Hole
• WSJ - US News · By The Editorial Board
  Opinion | Trump’s Texas Tariff Stakes
• WSJ - US Business · By Jon Emont
  The Vineyard Behind China’s Boutique Wine Boom
• WSJ - World News · By Santiago Pérez
  Claudia Sheinbaum Is Taking More Control as U.S. Pressures Mexico
• WSJ - US News · By The Editorial Board
  Opinion | Busting the ABA’s Accreditation Monopoly
• WSJ - US News · By The Editorial Board
  Opinion | Close Unrwa, Not the Office Exposing It
• WSJ - World News · By The Editorial Board
  Opinion | Close Unrwa, Not the Office Exposing It
• WSJ - Technology · By Robert H. Bork Jr.
  Opinion | The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger
• WSJ - US News · By Robert H. Bork Jr.
  Opinion | The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger
• Financial Times - World
  Guggenheim affiliate buys up debt linked to its asset management arm
• WSJ - Politics · By Jack Morphet
  Media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE for allegedly overstaying his visa
• WSJ - US News · By Jack Morphet
  ICE Has Detained British Media Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos
• NYT - Top Stories · By Chris Cameron, Hamed Aleaziz and Ken Bensinger
  Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE
• WSJ - Economy · By Will Flannigan
  Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh spoke today and the odds of an interest-rate hike rose double digits. Plus, Hegseth summoned the military’s top brass for a meeting and Russians got a little taste of direct democracy. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter.
• WSJ - Markets · By Will Flannigan
  Warsh Speaks and Rate-Hike Odds Rise
• NYT - Business · By Ann Carrns
  FAFSA Form for College Aid Will Be Less Stressful This Year, Officials Say
• WSJ - Markets
  Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
• WSJ - Markets
  Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk
• NYT - US News · By Trip Gabriel
  James Roche, Embattled Air Force Secretary, Dies at 86
• WSJ - Markets
  Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• NYT - Business · By Rebecca F. Elliott, Simon Romero, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Lisa Friedman
  Chevron Is in Talks to Expand in Venezuela, a Potential Win for Trump
• NYT - World News · By Alan Yuhas
  King Oyo of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom Dies at 34
• WSJ - Markets · By Sam Goldfarb
  Markets Brace for Possible Rate Hike After Kevin Warsh’s Hawkish Turn
• BBC - World
  Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers, mayor says
• NYT - Top Stories · By Paul Sonne
  Why Putin Is Fighting On, Even as His Problems Multiply
• Vox - Main · By Cameron Peters
  Trump’s new mass deportation target
• BBC - World
  97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior'
• Washington Post - National · By Julian Mark
  Trump asks Supreme Court to allow military to discharge transgender troops
• NYT - US Politics · By Heather Knight
  California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Cancellation
• NYT - World News · By Jason Gulley
  A Melting Glacier in Nepal Was a Time Bomb. There Are More to Come.
• WSJ - US News · By Tunku Varadarajan
  Opinion | Mike Rogers’s Plan to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed
• WSJ - Markets · By Rob Curran
  U.S. Stocks Fall After Warsh Speech Boosts Bond Yields
• WSJ - Markets · By Patrick M. Brenner
  Opinion | How Did a Nonprofit Become America’s Insurance Regulator?
• NYT - US Politics · By Elizabeth Williamson
  It’s Trump’s Capital Now, but Voters Aren’t Living in It
• Financial Times - World
  Senior German politicians call for ban on parts of far-right AfD
• WSJ - US Business · By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
  Opinion | Trump Discovers His Inner Nixon on Rock Concerts
• WSJ - World News · By Jeff Stier
  Opinion | A Food Crisis May Be Coming to the U.S.
• Washington Post - National · By Amy B Wang
  Nashville airport may be renamed to honor Dolly Parton
• WSJ - Markets · By Jessica Coacci
  Short-Term Treasury Yields Rise as Warsh Targets Inflation in Jackson Hole Speech
• NYT - US Politics · By Carol Rosenberg
  Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture
• NYT - US News · By Emily Cochrane
  Autopsy Shows Man Killed by National Guard in Memphis Was Shot in Back
• WSJ - Technology · By Christopher Mims
  I Let Google’s Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It’s a Huge Help
• NYT - Top Stories · By Quinn Glabicki
  Sun-Ways Is Testing Out Train Track Solar Farms
• The War Zone - Main · By Tyler Rogoway
  Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week
• Washington Post - National · By N. Kirkpatrick
  Burning Man begins this weekend as Hawk Fire reaches 95% containment
• NYT - US News · By Jacey Fortin
  Jury in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial to Resume Deliberations on Monday
• TechCrunch - Artificial Intelligence · By Rebecca Bellan
  Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
• NYT - US Politics · By Mattathias Schwartz
  $42 Million Abu Ghraib Jury Verdict Is Overturned on Appeal
• NYT - World News · By Lily Kuo
  China Offers Condolences to Nepal While Emphasizing Disaster Began There
• Financial Times - World
  China’s actors written out of dramas as AI doubles ready to take their roles
• WSJ - Markets
  U.S. Natural Gas Futures Make Small Weekly Gains
• BBC - World
  Greenland says findings on genocide allegation not final
• WSJ - Markets · By Summer Said
  A Core Egyptian Bank Gets Caught Up in Treasury’s Iran Crackdown
• WSJ - World News · By Summer Said
  A Core Egyptian Bank Gets Caught Up in Treasury’s Iran Crackdown
• BBC - World
  US plans to cut off military aid to key Middle East ally, BBC told
• NYT - World News · By Lynsey Chutel
  Who Is Haakon, Norway’s New King?
• NYT - US Politics · By Zach Montague
  Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Halting Mail-In Voting Rules
• Financial Times - World
  Gatwick airport water supplies hit by burst pipe
• NYT - World News · By Steven Erlanger
  Six Months In, Iran Appears Stronger and U.S. Goals Unclear
• NYT - World News · By Binod Ghimire
  A Nepali city struggles to handle the many bodies on its riverbanks.
• WSJ - Politics · By Micah Maidenberg
  The U.S. will develop an academy to train personnel for government space jobs, along the lines of long-established institutions that do the same for the Air Force and Coast Guard
• WSJ - US News · By Micah Maidenberg
  A West Point for Space? Trump Calls for New Academy to Train Space Personnel
• BBC - World
  Norway mourns King Harald as Haakon VIII ascends throne
• NPR - World · By Hadeel Al-Shalchi
  After 6 months of war, Iran's battered regime remains entrenched
• Washington Post - National · By Elahe Izadi, Natalie Allison
  British far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
• WSJ - Economy
  Week Ahead for FX, Bonds: U.S. Jobs Data in Focus; Bank of Canada Decision Due
• TechCrunch - Artificial Intelligence · By Russell Brandom
  An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
• Washington Post - National · By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
  Prominent Texas Republican predicts GOP losses over data centers
• NYT - Top Stories · By Sarah Longwell and John Guida
  ‘Trump Voters Are Finally Starting to Sour on Him’
• Washington Post - National · By Casey Parks
  LGBTQ people struggle to get needed health care and pay for it, study finds
• NYT - Business · By Colby Smith
  Fed Chairman Warsh Seeks to Calm Elevated Inflation Concerns
• BBC - World
  Russia ramps up rhetoric but wants to avoid war with Nato, Western officials say
• WSJ - World News · By Thomas Grove
  What’s Left of Russian Democracy? Some Say a Debate Over a Statue
• NYT - Top Stories · By Francisco Berzunza
  This Is Looting by Another Name
• NYT - US Politics · By Ann E. Marimow and Dave Philipps
  Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ban on Transgender Troops
• NYT - US News · By Shadi Bushra
  The Local: Michael Che on First Avenue
• TechCrunch - Apps · By Sarah Perez
  Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
• NYT - Business · By Joe Rennison
  Investors Expect Higher Rates After Fed Chairman’s Inflation Pledge
• Financial Times - World
  Trump loses bid to challenge hush-money conviction in federal court
• Washington Post - National · By Sarah Blaskey, Jonathan O'Connell, Dan Diamond, Jarrett Ley
  The White House says its ballroom is 65% complete. Its documents suggest otherwise.
• NYT - US News · By Anna Griffin
  Tank That Imploded at Washington Paper Plant, Killing 11, Was Known to Be Unsafe, Report Says
• Politico - Congress · By By Meredith Lee Hill
  Trump pollster says Abdul El-Sayed’s polling lead is a ‘fake narrative’
• WSJ - Economy · By Nick Timiraos
  Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh signaled the central bank may not be done fighting inflation
• WSJ - Markets
  Opinion | Gag Treasury, You Gag the Market, Too
• NYT - Business · By Rebecca F. Elliott, Ruth Fremson and Leanne Abraham
  These Tanks Can Hold 90 Million Barrels of Oil. They Have Just 22 Million.
• Geopolitical Futures - Main · By Geopolitical Futures
  The US and Canada Need Each Other
• WSJ - World News
  Opinion | And There Go the Midterms
• Axios - Main Feed · By Josephine Walker
  China is secretly fueling America's data center rage
• TechCrunch - Artificial Intelligence · By Tim Fernholz
  Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
• SF Standard - Main · By Jillian D’Onfro
  A Mid-Market building the city abandoned finds a new buyer
• NYT - World News · By Leily Nikounazar and Yeganeh Torbati
  Why Many Iranians Are Losing Hope After Six Months of War
• NYT - Business · By Katie Robertson
  Trump Updates $15 Billion Libel Lawsuit Against The New York Times
• WSJ - Markets · By Caitlin McCabe
  Stocks Lower as Fed’s Warsh Comments Boost Rate-Hike Bets
• Financial Times - World
  Neoclouds show how to amplify risks in AI ecosystems
• NYT - Business · By Steve Lohr and Meaghan Tobin
  China Sees Opportunity in America’s Recent A.I. Security Scares
• Axios - Main Feed · By Josephine Walker
  Trump loses longshot bid to erase hush money conviction
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Cory Franklin, JohnKassNews
  Et Tu, David Axelrod?
• WSJ - Politics · By Lara Seligman
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering inviting hundreds of senior military personnel back for an address at Marine Corps Base Quantico this year
• NYT - World News · By Claire Moses
  Mount Kailash, Sacred to 4 Faiths, Drew Pilgrims Lost in Nepal and Tibet Floods
• Washington Post - Technology · By Natalie Allison
  Trump announces creation of U.S. Space Academy
• The War Zone - Main · By Joseph Trevithick
  USAF Stands Up Unit To Fly HH-60W Helicopters In Doomsday Evacuation Role In Nation’s Capital
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Joseph Castleberry, RealClearPolitics
  Extend TPS for Salvadorans for One Year
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Barak Ravid, Axios
  U.S. Gains the Upper Hand in the Battle for Hormuz
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Reagan Reese, State of the Day
  Five Years After Abbey Gate
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Carl Trueman, First Things
  The England I Knew Is Gone
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By James Reynolds, The Independent
  Six Months In, Trump's Iran War Is a Total Disaster
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Jonathan Turley, FOX
  Carville's Tirade Reveals Left's All-Consuming Politics of Rage
• Real Clear Politics - Main · By Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian
  Trump's Midterm Campaign Theme Is Unrequited Love
• WSJ - World News · By Matilda Chia
  We Tested a Smartphone Smuggled From North Korea
• WSJ - World News · By Kim Mackrael
  Iceland Weighs Security Versus Sovereignty in Vote on EU Membership Talks
• Vox - Main · By Astead Herndon
  The concert trend forcing fans to pay way more
• BBC - Business
  Wife of man who died after turbulence sues airline
• The War Zone - Main · By Ian Ellis-Jones
  Massive Expansion At China’s ‘Area 51’
• BBC - Business
  Gatwick Airport faced water outage after main burst
• BBC - World
  Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages
• BBC - World
  Thieves steal 600-diamond necklace from Vienna museum in broad daylight
• NYT - World News · By Lynsey Chutel, Henrik Pryser Libell and Louise Krüger
  Mourners in Norway Remember King Harald V
• BBC - US/Canada
  Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
• The Hill - Policy · By Rachel Frazin
  Trump posts update on Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
• The War Zone - Main · By Howard Altman
  U.S. Expanding B-52 Bomber Capacity At Moron Air Base In Spain
• TechCrunch - Startups · By Dominic-Madori Davis
  How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
• The War Zone - Main · By Thomas Newdick
  Indonesia’s First Aircraft Carrier Is On Its Way From Italy
• NYT - Top Stories · By Steven Kurutz
  She Filmed the Towers That Morning. 25 Years Later, She Finally Watched.
• Vox - Main · By Marina Bolotnikova
  The most sympathetic case for NIMBYism is still wrong
• Hacker News - Main
  Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
• SF Standard - Main · By Kerry Crowley
  The 49ers were the NFL’s dream Australia ambassadors. Not anymore
• Washington Post - Business · By David J. Lynch
  Fed chair Warsh, concerned about inflation, says bank may have ‘work to do’
• WSJ - US Business
  Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk
• WSJ - Markets
  Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk
• NYT - World News · By Elian Peltier and Kiana Hayeri
  Inside Afghanistan’s Secret Schools for Girls
• WSJ - Technology · By Sara Ashley O’Brien
  Should You Use AI for Mental Health?
• Financial Times - Main
  Hawkish Warsh hints Fed will raise rates if inflation does not fall soon
• WSJ - Technology · By Kris Maher
  Privacy vs. Security: Readers Clash Over Flock License-Plate Cameras
• The Hill - Policy · By Zach Kaplan
  Why are flesh-eating bacteria expanding beyond traditional hotspots?
• NYT - Business · By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Brian O’Keefe, Sri Muppidi, Hurubie Meko, Ian Mount and Mike Isaac
  Warsh’s Big Test at Jackson Hole
• Financial Times - Main
  Warsh settles some nerves at Jackson Hole
• BBC - World
  Violence breaks out in Ceuta as migrant crisis continues
• The War Zone - Main · By Thomas Newdick
  Saab’s Gripen F Two-Seater Takes To The Air For The First Time
• WSJ - Economy · By Robb M. Stewart
  Canada’s Economy Grows Strongly, Though Tariff Uncertainty Casts Shadow
• NYT - Business · By Ben Casselman
  Smaller Revision Points to More Accurate Jobs Numbers
• The Hill - Opinion · By Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor
  Hegseth ignored Centcom, cut program ahead of Iran school strike: Report
• BBC - Business
  'A lot of pressure' - SSE Airtricity to increase gas prices by 19%
• BBC - US/Canada
  Watch: Puppy rescued from drain using a bucket and cheese
• NPR - Top Stories · By Scott Horsley
  Fed's Kevin Warsh warns inflation is too high, sparking bets rate hikes are coming
• SF Standard - Main
  Sponsored: Sundown Cinema sparks joy as ‘Inside Out,’ ‘Parent Trap’ draw crowds to SF film series
• Axios - Main Feed · By Courtenay Brown
  The case for the U.S. dollar's digital edge
• Hacker News - Main
  Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
• TechCrunch - Security · By Zack Whittaker
  More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey
• Washington Post - World · By Aoife Walsh, Joshua Yang, N. Kirkpatrick
  At least 540 killed in floods; search on for hundreds missing at Nepal-China border
• The Intercept - Main · By Matt Sledge
  Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.
• NYT - World News · By Elian Peltier, Safiullah Padshah and Rebecca Suner
  Inside a Secret School for Afghan Girls
• TechCrunch - Apps · By Sarah Perez
  Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M
• The Hill - Opinion · By Twila Moon, opinion contributor
  The US is canceling its Arctic Report Card when it matters most
• Hacker News - Main
  EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality
• Hacker News - Main
  GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
• Hacker News - Main
  GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
• BBC - Business
  Fed has 'work to do' if price rises don't ease for Americans, Warsh says
• NYT - World News · By Amelia Nierenberg and Egill Bjarnason
  ‘The Sauna Is Hot and Uncomfortable’: Vote on E.U. Talks Makes Iceland Sweat
• WSJ - US Business · By Suzanne Kapner
  Gap Is Back. Investors Are Starting to Believe.
• The Hill - Opinion · By Wahid Gulrani, opinion contributor
  As public trust declines, Muslim politicians are rising to the occasion
• Wired - AI · By Steven Levy
  AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
• NYT - Business · By Rebecca F. Elliott
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• NPR - World · By Brittney Melton
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• NPR - Politics · By Danielle Kurtzleben
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• Wired - AI · By Paresh Dave
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• NPR - World · By Diaa Hadid
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• NPR - World · By Steve Inskeep
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