The Rundown — October 2, 2026
What's going on right now, in one place. The ↗ links out to the original source; the item's own text turns into a link only once it becomes a full entry here. Business & markets -…
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The Rundown — September 28, 2026
What's going on right now, in one place. The ↗ links out to the original source; the item's own text turns into a link only once it becomes a full entry here. World - President…
Article ·The Summer of Truth, and the Things With Dates
The room she spoke to: the Strasbourg hemicycle during a plenary session. Photo by Diliff, 2014, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. On Wednesday Ursula von der Leyen stood in the…
Article ·The Demonstration
The room where Wednesday's vote was taken, photographed empty. "The Entrance to the FOMC Board Room," Marriner S. Eccles Building, Washington. Photo: Federal Reserve, public…
Article ·The Rundown — September 16, 2026
What's going on right now, in one place. Items stay plain text until one of them becomes its own entry below — then it turns into a link. Macro & markets - The Fed hikes 25bp to…
Article ·A Rate Hike Against a Strait
The last time an oil shock reached an American pump this hard. Portland, Oregon, February 1974 — the state was the first to ration by licence-plate number. Photo: David Falconer…
Article ·The Other Door
The door itself. Perim (Mayun) island and the tip of Yemen's Shaikh Said peninsula in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, photographed from the International Space Station; the Houthis took…
Article ·The Escape Valve
The plume, from 800 km up. NASA Worldview, VIIRS on NOAA-20, 10 September 2026, the Madinah region of Saudi Arabia with the Red Sea at left. NASA imagery is in the public domain.…
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