📰 From the Digest

The White House Historical Association took $2.5 million from a man who wanted to demolish the East Wing, and donors are now withholding money.

The States Project has raised more than $100 million for Democratic state legislative races, up from $70 million last cycle.

James Talarico raised $64 million in the third quarter, the largest Senate fundraising quarter on record.

Abdul El-Sayed and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toured Michigan's Upper Peninsula pitching a national progressive agenda.

Inflation-adjusted hourly earnings have fallen back to their level when Trump took office in January 2025.

US-Ukraine relations hit a new low, but the Pentagon told NATO that weapons deliveries to Ukraine continue uninterrupted.

The Pentagon is considering using its largest non-nuclear bomb on Iranian targets.

Masked settlers beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in the West Bank as settler violence escalates.

Vox's Zack Beauchamp explains settler violence as a deliberate tactic backed by ministers in Netanyahu's government.

The cost of insuring against defaults by CoreWeave, Oracle and even Microsoft has risen sharply.

Business Insider says Anthropic's crackdown on distillation copycats may have slowed its revenue growth ahead of its IPO.

Microsoft's AI chief says a new in-house model beat OpenAI's using a quarter of the computing power.

Top US law firms are on pace to hire nearly 300 data-center lawyers this year, three times the 2020 level, with hiring shifting to Texas.

Retention packages that partners called offensively low helped kill a merger between Perella Weinberg and Piper Sandler.

AI companies are racing to buy workplace data such as emails, memos and Slack messages to train models that automate work.