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Edition No. 76 ยท Sun 6 Sept 2026 ยท 22 stories ยท Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Edition No. 76

Sunday 6 September 2026

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  1. 01 ยท 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.

  2. 02 ยท 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.

  3. 03 ยท 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.

    AI

  4. 04 ยท 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.

    Elections ยท AI

  5. 05 ยท 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.

  1. 06 ยท Puck

    Moderate suburban white women are feeling left behind
    Why it matters

    Leigh Ann Caldwell's focus-group data shows moderate suburban women feeling economically left behind.

    Story page โ†’
  2. 07 ยท The Washington Post

    Trove of documents reveals alleged chemical weapons stockpile in Sudan
    Why it matters

    A document trove on an alleged chemical weapons stockpile in Sudan converts years of deniable claims into record.

    Story page โ†’
  3. 08 ยท The Washington Post

    The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector.
    Why it matters

    The UN backed the Equal Earth projection, which shows Africa near its true relative size, and the US was the sole objector.

    Story page โ†’
  4. 09 ยท Puck

    Inside Anna Wintour's Galliano miscalculation
    Why it matters

    The Met's Galliano retrospective collapsed under pressure from inside and outside the institution, donors included, and Galliano withdrew.

    Story page โ†’
  5. 10 ยท Puck

    The Murdoch Files: what the sealed testimony reveals
    Why it matters

    Eriq Gardner mined 19,000 pages of unsealed Murdoch trust testimony, a factual record of who controls the empire.

    Story page โ†’
  6. 11 ยท Puck

    What the Hugging Face attack reports reveal about AI agents
    Why it matters

    Ian Krietzberg worked the OpenAI and Hugging Face hacking reports, the first real incident report on AI agent security.

    Story page โ†’
  7. 12 ยท The Athletic

    What went wrong with the grass at the Bills' new stadium?
    Why it matters

    George Toma, who oversaw every Super Bowl field, assessed the failing grass at the Bills' new stadium: somebody fell asleep.

    Story page โ†’
  8. 13 ยท The Athletic

    Cathy Engelbert did her job. Now the WNBA needs a true visionary
    Why it matters

    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.

    Story page โ†’
  9. 14 ยท The Athletic

    Who should be the next WNBA commissioner?
    Why it matters

    Candidates to succeed Cathy Engelbert as WNBA commissioner include Bethany Donaphin, Swin Cash and Condoleezza Rice.

    Story page โ†’
  10. 15 ยท Front Office Sports

    The wild transfer window shows how the Premier League towers over soccer
    Why it matters

    The Premier League's twenty clubs spent a combined $4.7 billion in the European transfer window.

    Story page โ†’
  11. 16 ยท Front Office Sports

    Native American leaders on the Commanders' old-name merch
    Why it matters

    Some Native American leaders said the Commanders should retire the old name and logo permanently rather than reissue them on limited merch.

    Story page โ†’
  12. 17 ยท Business Insider

    Scientists bet on "impossible" cancer treatments. It's paying off.
    Why it matters

    Business Insider reports positive results on two long-shot cancer bets: a molecular glue for undruggable mutations and a personalized cancer vaccine.

    Story page โ†’
  13. 18 ยท The Washington Post

    The best time to buy an iPhone may be right this minute
    Why it matters

    Further reading from the day's section on cancer research, culture and a beer heist.

    Story page โ†’
  14. 19 ยท Dru's Notes

    The Math of Inevitable Success
    Why it matters

    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%.

    Story page โ†’
  15. 20 ยท Puck

    Could Letterboxd be worth one billion dollars?
    Why it matters

    Letterboxd's valuation is a proxy for how the market currently prices community versus catalog.

    Story page โ†’

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