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World

Iran Fires on Gulf Allies After Overnight US Wave

Night Gulf water with distant tracer fire over a low shoreline

TL;DR

AP still sells a limited restart while X has no Wednesday CENTCOM complete post, and Oval won't last too long sits beside Tuesday's wipe-out line.

MSM Perspective

NPR and AP still frame Wednesday's Gulf fire as a monthlong lull broken, not as the Iranian answer to Tuesday's noon wave.

X Perspective

Military X still treats Tuesday's CENTCOM start-and-complete pair as the strike record, because no Wednesday wave was posted.

By Yosef Stern, Jerusalem September 2 9 min read

Two dark tanker silhouettes at anchor with a small fire at the stern of one hull

World

US Drones Hit Two Iranian Government Tankers

Axios names a tanker-for-tanker rule while shipping desks still count four hulls Tuesday, and a new targeting rule is not 40 ships through Hormuz.

By Yosef Stern, Jerusalem September 2 4 min read

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Technology

Judge Rejects Bid to Split Google Ad Tech

AppleInsider calls a dodge while the 2025 monopoly finding still stands, and behavioral terms stay sealed for 14 days.

By David Chen, Beijing September 2 4 min read

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Sports

Louisiana Court Weighs SEC Punishment of LSU

ESPN files eligibility theater and fan X files cheating, while the money fight is a conference threatening half a sport's budget.

By Amara Okonkwo, Lagos September 2 4 min read

A children's hospital waiting room after hours with two empty chairs and a darkened check-in desk

Life

Measles Hits Pittsburgh Children's After Two Hospital Visits

X still litigates fabricated deaths while Patch is running a waiting-room alert, and the CDC death box is still an asterisk.

By Nora Whitfield, Chicago September 2 4 min read

An empty festival screening room with unlit exit signs and a blank screen

Culture

Loznitsa Calls EU Venice Funding Cut Kindergarten

Art-world copy sells a pavilion boycott while Loznitsa says the cut hits cinema not Russia, and EU LNG imports still rose 17 percent.

By Anna Weber, Berlin September 2 4 min read

Entertainment

Clooney Defends Ruffalo Against Paramount Merger Attack

The Guardian files Venice free speech while studio X keeps the antisemitism charge, missing that merger math and Oracle Gaza contracts are the file.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles September 2 4 min read

Sports

Prime Video Takes Local Rights for Six NHL Clubs

League copy sells easy access while fans will treat it as another app tax, because local hockey is now a Prime SKU.

By Amara Okonkwo, Lagos September 2 4 min read

Life

Congo Ebola Spreads Outside Known Contact Chains

AP sells deaths topping 3,000 while CDC says most new cases sit outside known contacts, so the round number is not the operational fact.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo September 2 4 min read

Life

UNEP Sets 1.8 Peak After 1.5 Overshoot

UN News sells a fight for 1.5 while Climate Home prints a 1.8 peak and a 2.8 policy path, so the slogan is not current law.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo September 2 4 min read

Business

Uber Cuts 3300 Jobs to Fund Robotaxis

MSM files a growth reorganization while labor X treats 3,300 cuts as the product, and the savings go to autonomy that replaces the earner base.

By Theo Kaplan, San Francisco September 2 4 min read

Politics

The Wire

Life

Hubble Tracks a Decagon Around Saturn South Pole

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo

Iran Fires on Gulf Allies After Overnight US Wave

US Drones Hit Two Iranian Government Tankers

Judge Rejects Bid to Split Google Ad Tech

Louisiana Court Weighs SEC Punishment of LSU

Measles Hits Pittsburgh Children's After Two Hospital Visits

Loznitsa Calls EU Venice Funding Cut Kindergarten

Clooney Defends Ruffalo Against Paramount Merger Attack

Prime Video Takes Local Rights for Six NHL Clubs

Congo Ebola Spreads Outside Known Contact Chains

UNEP Sets 1.8 Peak After 1.5 Overshoot

Uber Cuts 3300 Jobs to Fund Robotaxis

House Democrats Ask Postal Watchdog to Probe Ballots

Justice Department Backs OpenAI Against the Times

Wright Cites Record Hormuz Flows Against Four Hulls

Google Buys Utah Geothermal Power From Fervo

Lutnick Says He Trusts Anthropic at Chapel Hill

Thirty New Suits Accuse OpenAI Over Shooting Tip

Netflix Sends Quake Aid Through a Film Census

Edouard Floods East Texas After Weak Landfall

Bay Area Cities Tighten Rules on Data Centers

Adobe Buys Indian Market Intelligence Startup Rilo

The Wire

Hubble Tracks a Decagon Around Saturn South Pole