Weekly News Montage: 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-15

Week

• Week start date: 2026-03-09
• Week end date: 2026-03-15
• Title/date text shown in image: WEEK IN REVIEW and Mar 9-15, 2026

Selected Stories

1. U.S.-Iran war escalation, Trump threats over the Strait of Hormuz, and oil-flow risk.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-khamenei-03-09-2026
     • https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-us-march-9-2026-b2aa51ef51d4b57103ffee0c95bc2ff7
2. Pentagon updates on Iran-war costs, wounded U.S. troops, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve release.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump--03-11-2026
3. U.S. strike on Iranian minelayers and fears of oil-export disruption.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-us-march-10-2026-acf2af139d179fbef62927a8bf9bea55
4. Wall Street loses ground as the Iran war keeps pressure on oil prices.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-oil-iran-trump-74bf078b7e40b6a0d38033c9fe29a87b
5. February 2026 Consumer Price Index release shows CPI-U up 0.3% seasonally adjusted and 2.4% over 12 months.
   • Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_03112026.htm
6. Severe weather moved eastward while Boston held its St. Patrick's Day parade weekend events.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/video/ap-top-stories-march-15-1fca065e090d4bce81fd5ea044a95eb2
7. Bam Adebayo scored 83 points for Miami, the second-highest single-game total in NBA history.
   • Sources:
     • https://apnews.com/article/heat-bam-adebayo-83-points-10146b0855f5b8f36a58f2e52b27f920
     • https://www.nba.com/news/bam-adebayo-83-point-game
8. The 98th Academy Awards crowned One Battle After Another best picture with six wins.
   • Source: https://apnews.com/live/oscars-2026-updates

Generation Details

• Full prompt saved for fallback reuse: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-03-09_to_2026-03-15.txt
• Engine used for final image: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Built-in image generation was tried first, then retried once after no dated PNG was persisted.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/07/05/rollout-2026-07-05T20-26-38-019f3508-d3dc-7bd0-8d87-b82061e91038.jsonl" --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-03-09
• Last extracted image was copied to the dated PNG path and normalized with Pillow LANCZOS.
• Final PNG verification: 1536x1024, RGB PNG, 3,200,649 bytes.

Saved Image

• My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/March_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-03-09_to_2026-03-15.png

Commit, Push, And Email

• Commit message: Add weekly news montage for 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-15
• Commit/push result: pending at metadata commit time; durable push is performed before email.
• AgentMail email result: pending at metadata commit time; helper JSON is captured in the automation final response.

Issues

• Codex image generation persistence issue #28881 occurred: both built-in renders appeared inline but did not persist the dated PNG, so the final image was recovered from the session transcript.