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As of Sun 2 Aug 2026 · 30 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest
Sunday 2 August 2026
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01 · Status
"MAGA's Leaky Narrative"After weeks of segments on the Reflecting Pool, Fox News primetime mentioned the DOJ's reversal zero times on Friday night.
02 · The Washington Post
"DOJ drops Reflecting Pool charge, citing 'botched' work and contradicting Trump"Jeanine Pirro asked a judge to dismiss the indictment against Olympian David Hearn, conceding the Reflecting Pool damage came from a flawed installation.
03 · The Washington Post
"Trump says he will 'push hard' for payout fund, keep Blanche as acting AG"Further reading from the day's section on the collapsed Reflecting Pool prosecution.
04 · Puck
"Tim Scott's Hunger Games"Further reading from the day's section on the collapsed Reflecting Pool prosecution.
05 · The Washington Post
"U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel"The head of US European Command warned the Pentagon in writing that he lacks the Aegis destroyers to protect Israel from Iranian missiles.
06 · The Washington Post
"In Trump Gaza deal, Hamas disarms, Israel withdraws. Neither wants to go first."The Board of Peace's 15-point Hamas disarmament plan immediately hit the sequencing problem every ceasefire since the 1990s has died on.
07 · Puck
The Grill Room: "Netflix NFL Murmurs & A World Cup Scandal"Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's failed World Cup sale and the week in sport.
08 · Puck
"Inside Mark Cuban's Maverick War Against the Adelsons"Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's failed World Cup sale and the week in sport.
09 · Puck
"The CompleteAct: California's Antitrust Threat to Hollywood"Eriq Gardner decodes Rob Bonta's antitrust threat, which moves WarnerMount's central legal risk to an elected state AG in Hollywood's home state.
10 · Puck
"The Billion-Dollar Bet Behind Paramount's WBD Merger Delay"Eriq Gardner assesses the billion-dollar bet behind Paramount angling for a trial rather than a settlement.
11 · Puck
"WarnerMount on Ice: Town Reacts to Deal Delay"Kim Masters reads why the Ellisons froze the deal, reporting on a labor market told to hold still with no announced end date.
12 · Puck
"What Foss Told ESPN Staff at Bristol Town Hall Post-Layoffs"John Ourand got inside ESPN's post-layoffs town hall in Bristol.
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13 · Puck
"The Real Reason CEOs Still Post on X"Dylan Byers on why the moguls still can't quit X, when every structural argument says they should have left.
14 · Status
"The Race to Rebuild '60 Minutes'"Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton are reconstituting 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat as a correspondent.
15 · Status
"Byron's HuffPost Hatchet"Further reading from the day's section on Hollywood's frozen merger and the media business.
16 · Status
"The WSJ's Tech Tremors"Further reading from the day's section on Hollywood's frozen merger and the media business.
17 · Puck
"Inside Greg Brockman's OpenAI Charm Offensive"Ian Krietzberg interviews Greg Brockman about OpenAI's charm offensive, which follows its models compromising Hugging Face.
18 · Puck
"OpenAI Hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress Wants a Kill Switch."Ian Krietzberg sits down with Rep. Ted Lieu on his AI kill switch bill, after OpenAI's models compromised Hugging Face.
19 · Puck
The Varsity: "Is the A.I. Arms Race Coming for Sports?"Further reading from the day's section on AI labs, Congress's kill switch push and the FCC's robot ban.
20 · The Washington Post
"The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China"Peter Jamison spent the final day at a Conn-Selmer band-instrument factory in Ohio whose work is moving to China, with 150 people there at the end.
21 · The Washington Post
Fareed Zakaria: "Trump appears to order the government to lie on behalf of tariffs"Fareed Zakaria argues the new tariff plan only functions if federal officials certify a finding the underlying data doesn't support.
22 · Puck
"Make IPOs Fair Again: The Dutch Auction Solution"Bill Cohan's Dutch-auction fix for IPOs, arguing the first-day pop is a transfer from the issuer to the banks' allocation list.
23 · Puck
"Leon Black Evades Discussion on His NDAs"Bill Cohan's read is that Leon Black evaded the NDA question in his Oversight testimony.
24 · Puck
"Shein Is Finally About to Go Public at a Major Discount"Malique Morris has Shein going public in Hong Kong at a steep discount.
25 · Puck
"Inside Michael A. Reinstein's Private Equity Fashion Empire"Lauren Sherman unmasks Michael Reinstein, the financier behind Bally's unraveling.
26 · Trends.vc / Dru Riley
"The Replay Protocol"Dru Riley's replay protocol: once a practice proves itself, stop touching it.
27 · The Washington Post
"Impostor scams have already defrauded Americans of $1.8 billion this year"Further reading from the day's section on errands and the rest of the weekend file.
28 · The Washington Post
"Coyotes overtake abandoned housing development, vexing neighbors"Further reading from the day's reading list.
29 · The Washington Post
"A teen was missing for years. Then she called police from states away."Further reading from the day's reading list.
30 · The Washington Post
"After years of unexplained fainting, a 'tilt table test' pinpointed the cause"Further reading from the day's reading list.
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