Daily News Collage - April 25, 2026

Run time: 2026-04-26 09:05 America/Los_Angeles

Artifact

• Image: Daily-News-Collage_4-25-26.png
• Timestamp shown in image: April 25, 2026 11:59 PM
• Generation mode: built-in image_gen

Selected Stories

1. White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting at the Washington Hilton, with senior officials evacuated.
   • Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/a-shooting-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/686953/
2. Georgia wildfires destroyed more than 120 homes and continued threatening communities.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/912b4f7844f4d26296b39036816d1f09
3. Chicago hospital shooting killed one police officer and critically injured another.
   • Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/one-police-officer-dead-after-chicago-hospital-shooting
4. Trump administration dismissed National Science Board members overseeing the NSF.
   • Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/
5. U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific killed two people.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/42e0097eea2b04bbec4f84afed237d71
6. Justice Department closed its criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, affecting Fed succession.
   • Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/24/justice-department-fed-powell/

Delivery

• AgentMail attempted first: failed before SDK execution because the requested skill file was missing at C:\Users\mikes\.codex\skills\agentmail\SKILL.md.
• Gmail fallback first attempt: failed with connector schema mismatch, attachment_files [type]: Expected type ['array'], got dict.
• Gmail fallback retry: succeeded with attachment; Gmail message ID 19dca9edc20a1e69.
• Email subject: Daily News Collage for April 25, 2026
• Plain-text body: Attached is the Daily News Collage for April 25, 2026.
• HTML body status: not sent by Gmail fallback because the available Gmail connector exposes only one body field.

Publish

• Branch: news_collage
• Status: published after rerun with restored git and network access.
• Local checkout note: repository was already on news_collage; unrelated existing changes were left untouched.
• Initial publish attempt issue: local .git and shell GitHub access were unavailable in the first environment, so PR #5 was updated with blocker notes while it was already merged.
• Resolution: rebuilt a clean commit from a temporary git index based on origin/main, containing only this dated PNG and metadata.
• Commit: 67a7a31ff7c43161c153164dc74d42337aa09f3e
• PR opened: https://github.com/michaelschecht/AI-Automation-Library/pull/6
• PR #6 status: open, ready for review, not draft.
• Labels applied to PR #6: codex, codex-automation.