The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Three women chop their way into the record books at Lumberjack World Championships [26m]
• Trump admin attempted to uncover phone records of NYT journalists and sources related to coverage of Qatari-gifted Air Force One [28m]
• A passenger brought a 6-pack of beer on an Alaskan pilot’s plane. He now has to defend his plane’s seizure in front of the Supreme Court [1h]
• LaLiga president says tech is already making the fan experience better, and it could solve football’s money problem too [1h]
• Blue Owl Capital owns about a third of the Freedom Fuel properties: A look inside the $3.47 gas chain [1h]
• FIFA President Infantino spent over 100 hours in the air during the 2026 World Cup amid pledge to reduce carbon emissions [1h]
• ‘It is a failure by AliExpress’: European Commission fines the Chinese marketplace $629 million for not blocking counterfeit goods [1h]
• Judge halts Paramount-Warner’s $81 billion merger for two weeks after states warn it would ‘extinguish competition’ [1h]
• Over $10 million, 35 coastal organizations, and 16 states led to a comeback of the Oystercatcher bird population [1h]
• U.S. bombs Iran for ninth straight night as Tehran strikes Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain [2h]
• French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media before departing office next year [2h]
• Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardrails stymied its defense [2h]
• Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it’s to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stock [4h]
• The Treasury is walking a tightrope on U.S. debt by relying so much on short-term rates that are at the mercy of a suddenly very hawkish Fed [5h]