Weekly News Montage: 2026-03-02 to 2026-03-08

Week

• Week start date: 2026-03-02
• Week end date: 2026-03-08
• Title/date text shown in image: WEEK IN REVIEW and Mar 2-8, 2026

Selected Stories

1. U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and the widening Iran war.
   • Sources:
     • https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/headlines
     • https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-lebanon-march-05-2026
2. Congress debates and votes on war-powers limits for the Iran conflict.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-lebanon-march-05-2026
     • https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-marco-rubio-middle-east-9b9dfac9c40c8cf171e229e0a0a6980f
3. Lawmakers question the Iran-war rationale, costs, strategy, and exit plan.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-marco-rubio-middle-east-9b9dfac9c40c8cf171e229e0a0a6980f
4. February jobs report shock and rough start to 2026 economy.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-economy-inflation-trump-tariffs-075a0d33e0794b7c93b9b8a7302dab98
     • https://abc7ny.com/post/president-trumps-roaring-economy-meets-rough-start-2026-what-latest-numbers-show/18692572/
5. Oil prices rise above $90 and markets sell off amid the Middle East conflict.
   • Source: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-unemployment-stock-market-03-06-2026
6. White House AI data-center power pledge with technology companies.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-data-centers-electricity-costs-9a3fbe8a9e68197dd470c7c02d92d7ab
7. Early spring severe storm and tornado threat across the Plains and Midwest.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/article/severe-weather-storm-tornado-midwest-0fddc7167d16147b28583cf1e2c8c2bb
     • https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/03/03/severe-storm-forecast-central-states-tornadoes/
8. Tariff-refund fallout after Supreme Court ruling against sweeping tariffs.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-refunds-09cd60a170d01d8d62739ab13086ff9e
     • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/us-judge-lawyers-175bn-trump-tariffs-refunds
9. Gracie Mansion IED incident during dueling protests in New York City.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/article/antiislam-protest-gracie-mansion-new-york-da773d7edec63b65c3296c1c95d2ff74
     • https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-isis-supporters-charged-attempting-detonate-explosive-devices-during-protests-outside

Generation Details

• Full prompt saved for fallback reuse: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-03-02_to_2026-03-08.txt
• Engine used for final image: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Built-in generation was tried first; the first filesystem candidate was an unrelated stale image and was removed.
• Built-in retry produced the correct inline montage but did not persist the dated PNG.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/07/05/rollout-2026-07-05T20-15-10-019f34fe-54ee-7e22-831c-a221775ce16e.jsonl" --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-03-02
• Last extracted image was copied to the dated PNG path and normalized with Pillow LANCZOS.
• Final PNG verification: 1536x1024, RGB PNG, 3,442,948 bytes.

Saved Image

• My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/March_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-03-02_to_2026-03-08.png

Commit, Push, And Email

• Commit message: Add weekly news montage for 2026-03-02 to 2026-03-08
• Commit/push result: pending at metadata write time; final automation result recorded after durable push.
• AgentMail email result: pending at metadata write time; email is sent only after successful push, and helper JSON is captured in the automation final response.

Issues

• Codex image generation persistence issue #28881 occurred: the correct built-in retry render was inline only, so the final image was recovered from the session transcript.