The Brutalist Report

Axios

• Baltimore bridge collapse "preventable," NTSB official says [2h]
• Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S. [4h]
• Klimt portrait becomes "most valuable" modern artwork, selling for $236.4M [6h]
• Trump designates Saudi Arabia as major non-NATO ally [7h]
• Saudi Arabia wants to buy nearly 300 U.S. tanks, White House says [8h]
• Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war [8h]
• Democrats force Cory Mills censure vote after GOP targets Plaskett's texts with Epstein [8h]
• Exclusive: Polymarket CEO blasts sportsbooks as "scam" [10h]
• Senate sends bill to release Epstein files to Trump [10h]
• Who's the sole Republican to vote against releasing Epstein files? [10h]
• Republicans move to oust Democrat Plaskett from House Intel panel over Epstein texts [10h]
• Trump backs ban on state AI laws [10h]
• Exclusive: Active investors keep markets health, Elliott's Jesse Cohn says [11h]
• Exclusive: Entrepreneur Emma Grede stands by comments on successful women [11h]
• Bidders circle Warner Bros. Discovery [12h]
• AI bubble is actually an LLM bubble, Hugging Face CEO says at Axios BFD. [12h]
• Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom [12h]
• Two dozens House Democrats vote with Republicans to rebuke one of their members [13h]
• Coinbase's Choi sees more companies leaving Delaware [13h]
• House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files [13h]
• Exclusive: Roelof Botha bets on SpaceX over OpenAI as the most valuable tech company [13h]
• Trump with MBS on Khashoggi: "A lot of people didn't like" him [15h]
• "Don't muck it up" : Massie urges Senate to pass Epstein bill as House vote looms [16h]
• Scoop: Mike Johnson to back Epstein files discharge petition [18h]
• Exclusive: Sanders pushes Senate Dems to go big on health care deal [19h]
• Google CEO: "No company is going to be immune" if AI bubble bursts [21h]
• Trump's $2,000 tariff checks would boost growth at a $450B cost, study says [22h]
• NIH cuts impacted 74,000 clinical trial patients: study [22h]
• Epstein files give Trump a taste of political mortality [23h]
• Trump's business empire goes global while he's in the White House [23h]
• Young adults in these cities are thinking about leaving [23h]
• Scoop: U.S. and Russia discussing prisoner swap [23h]