Weekly News Montage 2026 09 21 To 2026 09 27

Selected stories and sources

1. White House press-access fight, network boycott, lawsuit, and court-ordered return — Associated Press, AP syndicated report
2. U.S.–China state visit focused on trade, AI, and Iran tensions — Associated Press, AP syndicated report
3. U.S. defense of the Iran war during the U.N. General Assembly — Associated Press
4. Administration plan to remove 760,000 ACA exchange enrollees over fraud claims — Associated Press
5. Supreme Court permits use of the revamped federal voter-eligibility database — Associated Press syndicated report
6. Supreme Court rejects the Trump-backed Missouri congressional map — Associated Press syndicated report
7. Persistent nor'easter causes Northeast coastal flooding, outages, and disruption — Associated Press news summary
8. Taylor Swift set to become the most-awarded artist in VMA history at the September 27 ceremony — Associated Press

Generation details

• Final engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Prompt file: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-09-21_to_2026-09-27.txt
• Built-in attempts: 2; both rendered successfully inline and were created after RUN_START 1790593207.
• Recovery: the required freshness query for ig_*.png returned no match because the built-in tool used exec-*.png filenames. Recovery used codex_extract_images.py on the current session transcript; the last extracted render was selected and normalized with Pillow LANCZOS to exactly 1536×1024.
• Visual verification: passed for a single continuous scene, no grid/panel borders/numbered boxes, exact title and date, legible main story labels, generic non-likeness figures, and detailed editorial-cartoon rendering.

Delivery status

• Commit/push: included in the run's dated artifact commit and pushed to origin/mike_desktop before notification.
• AgentMail: attachment delivery is attempted only after the successful push; helper JSON is captured in the automation run result. If attachment delivery is rejected for size, the notification-only fallback is used.
• Issues: built-in cache filename mismatch required transcript recovery; no Gemini fallback was used. Minor incidental interface markings appear on background screens, but the required title, date, and main story labels are correct and readable.