Weekly News Montage — August 24–30, 2026

• Week start: 2026-08-24
• Week end: 2026-08-30
• Title/date text shown: WEEK IN REVIEW / AUG 24-30, 2026
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/August_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-08-24_to_2026-08-30.png

Selected stories and sources

1. Mail-voting restrictions and continuing court challenges — Associated Press
2. Meta's $18 billion youth-safety settlement with states — Associated Press
3. Dolly Parton's death at 80 and nationwide tributes — Associated Press
4. U.S.–Venezuela agreement involving access to 65 billion barrels of oil reserves — Associated Press
5. Federal Reserve signals that interest-rate hikes may be needed — Associated Press
6. U.S. strikes Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz — Associated Press
7. U.S.–Canada trade dispute and executive order renaming Lake Ontario in U.S. usage — Associated Press summary
8. U.S. Open action in New York, including Serena Williams' return — Associated Press

Generation details

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• Canvas: 1536x1024 (3:2 landscape)
• Prompt file: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-08-24_to_2026-08-30.txt
• Source workflow: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Prompts/create-weekly-news-montage.md
• Recovery: the required post-1788174006 ig_*.png freshness query returned no file after the initial render and one retry; the last image recovered by codex_extract_images.py from the current session transcript was normalized with Pillow Image.Resampling.LANCZOS.
• Validation: genuine 3.07 MB PNG; exact 1536×1024 dimensions; visually inspected for a unified scene, title/date spelling, story-label legibility, non-likeness, and editorial-render quality.

Delivery

• Commit/push result: succeeded; artifact commit fcbf374c pushed to origin/mike_desktop before email.
• AgentMail email result: attachment sent successfully via resend; status sent, message ID bbb6bb9a-77fc-4bcb-81e4-d44fb392822a, recipient mikeschecht@gmail.com.
• Issues: built-in image persistence bug #28881 required session-transcript recovery; the local file utility was unavailable, so PNG validity was confirmed with Pillow, byte size, dimensions, and direct visual inspection.