The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots rejected in June primary, a record high thanks to late-arriving ballots [50d]
• Nun detained by ICE on her way to Mass speaks out for first time: ‘For me, a nun, not to go to Mass…it was very, very heartbreaking’ [50d]
• Salman Rushdie describes a ‘lake of blood’ as his convicted attacker faces terrorism charges tied to the 2022 stabbing [50d]
• Two gun rights groups are suing the U.S. Virgin Islands over concealed carry for nonresidents [50d]
• The Secret Service is investigating a member of JD Vance’s detail over a suspected news leak [50d]
• EU strikes Google with $1 billion fine in major crackdown on antitrust regulations even as Trump threatens retaliation [50d]
• ‘There are no rules. It is the wild west of data centers’: Texas Democratic candidates pounce on AI data center projects in Republican strongholds [50d]
• AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened [50d]
• Influencer marketing isn’t an experiment anymore as companies expand their creator advertising budgets [50d]
• Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site: ‘There’s not a thing they can do about it’ [50d]
• RFK Jr.’s peptide push narrowly gains backing from FDA advisers despite objections from scientists [50d]
• Canada celebrates new Detroit River bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan as 50% tariff feud keeps American officials away [50d]
• Anthropic’s head of economics just explained why Anthropic’s CEO was wrong about a white-collar bloodbath [50d]