Monthly News Collage - September 2026

• News month: September 2026
• Timestamp shown in image: September 2026
• Saved image path: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Monthly-News-Collage/September_2026/Monthly-News-Collage_September_2026.png
• Layout: 1024 x 1536 portrait, six square panels, 3 rows x 2 columns, cartoon/editorial style
• Image generator: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)

Selected Stories

1. U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged fire after a month without military action, renewing conflict around the Persian Gulf.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/b7dea048552afc5a1e91c6a6b8adef65
2. The Federal Reserve raised its target federal funds range by one-quarter percentage point to 3.75%-4%.
   • Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260916a.htm
3. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected another attempt to use a new Trump-backed Missouri congressional map in the 2026 midterm election.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/3f43ba5f47681ea759115fbc250712d4
4. A powerful nor'easter flooded Northeast coastal communities, disrupted flights, and knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers at its peak.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/f4b86959733c021315e87ea1ed58459b
5. Americans marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with memorial ceremonies and service projects across the country.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/e73908a86b2707b245c843765e2a66f7
6. The NTSB opened an investigation after Amazon Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 operated by 21Air, overran a runway at Miami International Airport.
   • Source: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/pages/DCA26MA352.aspx

Panel Captions

• U.S.-Iran Fighting Resumes
• Fed Raises Rates to 4%
• Court Blocks Missouri Map
• Northeast Nor'easter Floods Coast
• America Marks 25 Years Since 9/11
• Miami Cargo Crash Investigated

Generation Details

• Prompt requirements read from: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Daily-News-Collage/Prompts/create-monthly-news-collage.md
• Exact prompt saved to: script/logs/monthly-ai-news-collage/gemini-prompt_September_2026.txt
• Engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Freshness guard: no post-RUN_START ig_*.png was found after either built-in generation; the last image extracted from the current session transcript was used, never a stale shared-cache file.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/10/01/rollout-2026-10-01T15-30-08-01a0f816-564b-7271-8c49-2db47747271c.jsonl" --out script/logs/monthly-ai-news-collage/extracted_September_2026
• Real-person handling: symbolic scenes and generic cartoon figures, with no recognizable likenesses of living people.
• Visual verification: six square panels, all six required captions, and the September 2026 stamp are present, correctly spelled, and legible; no panel numbering or extra caption strips are present.

Delivery and Publish Results

• Commit/push result: succeeded; initial artifact commit ded4e886 was pushed to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail email result: attachment sent successfully to mikeschecht@gmail.com; provider resend, status sent, message ID 01a0f81b-e4ad-71ca-b73b-2d9e2b8ed047.
• Issues: built-in images persisted under non-ig_*.png names, so transcript recovery was required; no Gemini fallback was used.