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The Kennedy Center Says It Cannot Make Payroll, and Its Board Has Named One Way Out
Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
Bangsamoro Voted for Its First Parliament. The Peace Deal Promised It Twelve Years Ago.
Sweden Voted on Whether the Far Right Should Govern, and the Far Right Went Backwards
Three First Ministers Signed a Declaration of Self-Determination. None of Them Can Call a Vote.
A Month Ago a Fed Hike Was a Coin Toss. The Market Now Treats It as Settled.
Kansas's In-State Tuition Law Was Struck Down in a Case Neither Side Wanted to Win
Staying to Keep the Oil and Ending the War Soon Are Two Different Plans
The Market Read the Essay as a Forecast for Chip Demand
The Patch Waited Six Weeks on Half the Servers. The Attackers Waited Four Days.
The Satellite Pictures Were Bought Before the Strike and Again After It
The Board Voted to Close the Kennedy Center Hours After a Judge Refused to Let It Carry Trump's Name
Two things were decided on Tuesday. A court said who owns the name of a national memorial, and a board said the doors close. The order of those events is the story.
The Kennedy Center at dusk. The board voted to close the main building immediately; the REACH stays open and the Honors and the Mark Twain Prize are expected to go on elsewhere. File photograph.
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Gaza's Hospitals Run Entirely on Generators. Their Diesel Is Funded Until Saturday.
Most accounts of Gaza's health system describe a supply problem at the crossings.
The Long View
Five Percent. The Monday the Price of Money, Energy and the Future Moved Together.
For most of the summer, markets treated the war, the oil price and the AI boom as separate things that could each be waited out.
Infrastructure Everybody Depends On Should Not Be Owned by a Competitor
Coverage Should Follow the Approval, Not the Advice
You Cannot Delegate the Thing You Have Never Done
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A Comedy Nobody Had Heard of Last Year Won Six Emmys, Including the One That Counts
A first-season show sweeping the comedy categories is rare, and it says something about an industry where almost nothing reaches everybody any more: the awards are one of the few places the business still agrees on what it watched.
Pennsylvania Has 693 Measles Cases, 133 Hospitalisations and a Third Death Under Review
An outbreak of this size is not a failure of medicine.
The Labs Asked for Rules. The President Says the Guardrail Is Him.
An industry asking to be constrained is unusual.
The Drones Hit a Warsaw-Bound Train Minutes After the Diplomats Passed Through
A strike on a rail line to a NATO capital, timed close to a visiting delegation, is not the same kind of event as a strike on a Ukrainian city, and every government involved knows the difference.
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Every State Agrees It Matters. Twenty-Five Require It to Be Taught.
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Four Hours From Nothing to a Breach, Then Eleven Victims in Twenty-Six Seconds
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Thirty-Five Dead Off Coron. The Manifest Said 134.
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The Most Expensive Room in the Building
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The Market Was Offered an End Date and Bought the War Instead
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Everything we have published, newest firstThe Safety Director Wrote "Everywhere I Looked There Are Issues" in 2021
Former 21 Air staff say they raised safety concerns years before the Miami overrun. The departing safety director emailed the owner in 2021 that "everywhere I looked there are issues." The former head of the pilots' union says he was fired in 2022 for pressing it, and has a federal whistleblower suit. The company disputes the claims.
The Agent Asks If You Trust the Repository After It Has Already Run It
A Git setting called core.fsmonitor holds a command, and Git runs it whenever the index refreshes — on git status, on git diff. Read it out of a cloned repository's own config and the repository executes code. On some coding agents the payload fires before the workspace-trust prompt is shown.
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The Pay Freeze Exempts the Jobs Government Cannot Afford to Lose
Most federal civilian pay is frozen at 2026 levels next year. Law enforcement gets 3.8 percent and the military gets five to seven. The exceptions are an admission that pay decides who shows up.
Twenty-Five Years Later, One Rule Has Been Given Back
Emergency measures are adopted in days and removed in decades, if at all. What is unusual here is not the gate pass.
More People Have Now Died From That Day Than Died On It
An anniversary is usually a measurement of distance from an event. This one measures an event that has not finished, and the ceremony has been amended to say so.
The AI Buildout
The $875m Bet Is That Inference Is a Memory Problem
Positron raised $875m on Thursday at a $5bn valuation, having been worth about $1.06bn in February. Its chips are built around memory capacity and bandwidth rather than raw compute, using commodity LPDDR5X rather than the high-bandwidth memory that constrains everybody else. That choice is the entire thesis.
The Deal Was Structured to Avoid a Filing. The Filing Is Now the Investigation.
The Justice Department has issued Nvidia a formal demand for information over its licensing arrangement with Groq, in which Groq's chief executive and chief operating officer moved across. The question is whether a licence plus a mass talent transfer is an acquisition that should have been reported. It is the first formal test of a structure the whole industry has been using.
Most organisations assume that if someone spots the danger and mentions it, the danger has been handled.
The Numbers
The Oil Curve Has Been Handed Something to Argue With
Brent closed above $100 on Wednesday for the first time since May, and the same afternoon the US president said the war would end immediately after the 3 November election. A forward curve pricing an open-ended disruption has to guess at duration. It has now been given a date to disagree with, which is not the same as being given the truth.
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The Import Ban Is the Headline. The Services List Is the Instrument.
Britain has banned imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and sanctioned individuals and companies involved in settlement expansion. The goods ban takes six to nine months and covers a small trade flow. The measures on construction, financing, real estate and advertising start sooner and reach further.
They Called the Speed a Hundred and Two Seconds Before the Crash
Recognising a problem and acting on it are separate events with separate causes. On this recording they are a hundred and two seconds apart, and nothing about the aeroplane explains the interval.
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- 4 Sept A Thousand New Rules, and Eighteen Percent Fewer People to Enforce Them
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