Weekly News Montage: 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-12

• Week start date: 2026-07-06
• Week end date: 2026-07-12
• Title/date text shown in image: WEEK IN REVIEW and Jul 6-12, 2026
• Saved image path: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/July_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-07-06_to_2026-07-12.png
• Prompt log: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-07-06_to_2026-07-12.txt

Selected Stories And Sources

1. U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran after attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
   • https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-us-war-strait-of-hormuz-trump-nato/
   • https://www.cbsnews.com/video/us-launches-another-round-of-strikes-on-iran/
2. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died at 71, prompting national political tributes and succession questions.
   • https://apnews.com/article/bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa
   • https://apnews.com/article/88aaf34c3a2f1daa382b80b2099ccf5f
3. FIFA lifted U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's red-card suspension after President Trump's intervention; Belgium beat the U.S. 4-1.
   • https://apnews.com/article/e5a5cab5731a916808601be93cb36832
   • https://apnews.com/article/3844fa1a923761f79601cce20ace07fa
4. Severe flooding hit Missouri and the broader Heartland/South, with hundreds of rescues and flash-flood threats.
   • https://abcnews.com/US/missouri-governor-declares-state-emergency-flooding-rain/story?id=134658727
   • https://abcnews.com/video/134666652/
5. A dangerous U.S. heat dome threatened record heat while wildfire danger persisted.
   • https://apnews.com/article/72cf21d28aac672304a1cbf345b87e90
6. Southern California's Summit Fire prompted evacuations and burned thousands of acres before crews gained containment.
   • https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/summit-fire-antelope-valley-evacuation-orders/
   • https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/7/10/summit-fire
7. The White House accused the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History of "extreme political activism."
   • https://abcnews.com/video/134532651/
   • https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/us-news/white-house-tears-into-extreme-political-activism-at-national-museum-of-american-history/
8. Graham Platner formally withdrew from Maine's U.S. Senate race, forcing Democrats to choose a replacement nominee.
   • https://apnews.com/article/53839ed2762e9f84557a299ae922f2dd
   • https://abcnews.com/Politics/graham-platner-officially-withdraws-maine-senate-race/story?id=134663041
9. FIFA announced a star-studded World Cup final halftime show.
   • https://apnews.com/article/9587b78ba94ac915b4b2dd208f9a6eed

Generation Details

• Engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Built-in image generation was attempted first.
• Freshness guard command returned no post-RUN_START persisted file after the first render and after one retry: find ~/.codex/generated_images -type f -name 'ig_*.png' -newermt @1783940406 -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -1
• Transcript recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/07/13/rollout-2026-07-13T11-00-07-019f5b22-6182-7771-8644-e2be90dafa53.jsonl" --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-07-06
• Recovered source image used: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-07-06/ig_064b92c6a8b01504016a54c67720f48191b8c96e4d1fcde7b5.png
• Final PNG normalized to exactly 1536x1024 with Pillow LANCZOS resize.

Commit, Push, And Email

• Commit/push result: pending at metadata creation; final result captured in the automation run response after the required push step.
• AgentMail email result: pending at metadata creation because email is required to run only after a successful push; helper JSON captured in the automation run response.

Issues

• Codex image generation bug #28881 occurred: the built-in render returned inline but did not persist a fresh PNG under ~/.codex/generated_images/.
• No stale shared-cache image was used.
• Gemini fallback was not used.