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As of Sun 6 Sept 2026 · 22 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Sunday 6 September 2026

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01 · Puck
Jim Bullard on the current state of the Fed
Bill Cohan pressed former St. Louis Fed president Jim Bullard on Trump demanding rate cuts as August jobs data raised the odds of a hike.
United States
AdTech and media
02 · The Washington Post
U.S. says it hit 3 Iranian oil tankers, including one near Kharg Island
CENTCOM struck three Iranian crude tankers, disabling one off Kharg Island, after Iran fired missiles at two US Navy vessels.
Iran United States
Politics and government
03 · The Washington Post
The mystery behind an audio clip that helped upend a Senate race
Liz Goodwin reports AI tools increasingly let political actors fool voters and help candidates cast doubt on reality.
United States
Politics and government
AI
04 · The Washington Post
OpenAI feared its technology could reshape elections. Now campaigns are using it.
OpenAI wrote rules against campaign use of its technology, and campaigns are making ads with it anyway.
United States
Politics and government
Elections · AI
05 · The Washington Post
Republican House candidates tone down Trump on their campaign websites
Republican House candidates are quietly toning down Trump on their own campaign websites.
United States
Politics and government
06 · Puck
Moderate suburban white women are feeling left behind
Leigh Ann Caldwell's focus-group data shows moderate suburban women feeling economically left behind.
United States
AdTech and media
07 · The Washington Post
Trove of documents reveals alleged chemical weapons stockpile in Sudan
A document trove on an alleged chemical weapons stockpile in Sudan converts years of deniable claims into record.
Sudan
Politics and government
08 · The Washington Post
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector.
The UN backed the Equal Earth projection, which shows Africa near its true relative size, and the US was the sole objector.
United States
Politics and government
09 · Puck
Inside Anna Wintour's Galliano miscalculation
The Met's Galliano retrospective collapsed under pressure from inside and outside the institution, donors included, and Galliano withdrew.
AdTech and media
10 · Puck
The Murdoch Files: what the sealed testimony reveals
Eriq Gardner mined 19,000 pages of unsealed Murdoch trust testimony, a factual record of who controls the empire.
AdTech and media
11 · Puck
What the Hugging Face attack reports reveal about AI agents
Ian Krietzberg worked the OpenAI and Hugging Face hacking reports, the first real incident report on AI agent security.
AdTech and media Business and tech
AI
12 · The Athletic
What went wrong with the grass at the Bills' new stadium?
George Toma, who oversaw every Super Bowl field, assessed the failing grass at the Bills' new stadium: somebody fell asleep.
Buffalo Bills NFL Buffalo
Sport NFL
Stadium financing

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13 · The Athletic
Cathy Engelbert did her job. Now the WNBA needs a true visionary
The Athletic says Cathy Engelbert did her job and the WNBA now needs a visionary, as average franchise value rose from $10 million in 2019 to $460 million.
WNBA
Sport WNBA
Women's sport
14 · The Athletic
Who should be the next WNBA commissioner?
Candidates to succeed Cathy Engelbert as WNBA commissioner include Bethany Donaphin, Swin Cash and Condoleezza Rice.
WNBA
Sport WNBA
Women's sport
15 · Front Office Sports
The wild transfer window shows how the Premier League towers over soccer
The Premier League's twenty clubs spent a combined $4.7 billion in the European transfer window.
EPL
Sport Premier League
16 · Front Office Sports
Native American leaders on the Commanders' old-name merch
Some Native American leaders said the Commanders should retire the old name and logo permanently rather than reissue them on limited merch.
Washington Commanders NFL
Sport
17 · Business Insider
Scientists bet on "impossible" cancer treatments. It's paying off.
Business Insider reports positive results on two long-shot cancer bets: a molecular glue for undruggable mutations and a personalized cancer vaccine.
Business and tech
Public health
18 · The Washington Post
The best time to buy an iPhone may be right this minute
Further reading from the day's section on cancer research, culture and a beer heist.
Politics and government
19 · Dru's Notes
The Math of Inevitable Success
Pieter Levels shipped 70+ projects and 4 made money; at a 5% hit rate, 14 attempts is where the odds of zero hits drop below 50%.
Business and tech
20 · Puck
Could Letterboxd be worth one billion dollars?
Letterboxd's valuation is a proxy for how the market currently prices community versus catalog.
AdTech and media
21 · The Washington Post
Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
Mary Tsingou-Menzel, whose work was key to a landmark experiment but credited in a footnote, has died at 97.
Politics and government
22 · Business Insider
A weekend in Easton, Maryland, the "new Hamptons"
Easton, Maryland is part of the Eastern Shore's ongoing second-home reclassification.
Business and tech

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