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News Digest
Trump Sends Kushner and Witkoff to Russia and Ukraine With New Peace Plan; Clancy Mistrial Made Official
New peace plan push: President Donald Trump is sending envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Russia and Ukraine carrying a new peace plan, Al Jazeera reports. Clancy mistrial official: A judge has formally declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, Tangle reports.…
Today's Digests
AI Digest
Hugging Face to Join NVIDIA in $12.93B Deal as GPT-6 Astra Users Audit Configs and Watch Token Bills
@ClementDelangue announced Hugging Face's intention to join NVIDIA in a $12.93B acquisition that he says keeps the platform open, independent, and compute agnostic. The rest of the feed wrestles with GPT-6 Astra: 174 PRs merged on Effect in two days, but a 2.5x price jump per @ArtificialAnlys, driving config audits, cost workarounds, and one PCB reality check.
Local News Digest
West Metro man with nine convictions sentenced to 20 years in ghost gun case
A 36-year-old West Metro man will serve 20 years in prison after his DNA was found in a loaded ghost gun, marking his ninth conviction. U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's office announced the Thursday sentencing on Friday.
Reality TV Digest
Jax Granted Restraining Order Against Brittany as Divorce War Turns Ugly — Plus Phaedra & CT Are Officially On
The Jax–Brittany divorce has gone nuclear. Jax Taylor was granted a temporary restraining order against Brittany Cartwright — and that's not all. A 2022 video has surfaced in…
Pop Culture Digest
Beyoncé Is Selling a $948 Wooden Box With No Vinyl Inside — Happy B'Day, I Guess!
Some truly sad news to start: in the wake of Dolly Parton's death, her sister Stella Parton is calling out "fake AI garbage" and "snarky tweets," asking people online to "show…
Finance Digest
Hot Jobs Report Torches Rate-Cut Bets as Gold Slides and Norway's $2T Fund Eyes an $80B Treasury Exit
Equities have been "the textbook definition of resilient" in 2026 despite a litany of headwinds, per Motley Fool — and Friday's action was again more a single-stock story than an index one. The macro trade that did br...
Gaming Digest
Double Direct Incoming — Nintendo Stacks Back-to-Back Zelda 40th Anniversary and General Showcases for September 8–9
The Direct doubleheader is the story of the week, full stop. Nintendo Life reports Nintendo popped up with not one but two showcases just after a busy Gamescom, with the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct kicking things of...
MTG Digest
Pauper Whiplash: Wizards Reverses Zeta Bannings and Serra Angel Is Suddenly Legal
DraftSim reports Teferi was revealed as a primary character in the 2027 Zhalfir set at MagicCon Amsterdam, with the headliner [popping up in comic form a year early](https://draftsim.com/mtg-teferi-comic/) — start you...
F1 Digest
"I Think We're Being Robbed" — Gasly Strips, Monza Slows: F1's Wildest Friday of 2026
The most dramatic "race result" of the day arrived three months late: the [ICA has upheld Gasly's Monaco penalties](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/pierre-gasly-loses-monaco-gp-podium-as-penalties-reinstated-follow...
Sports Digest
The Kyler Murray Era Opens in Minnesota — Just as Football Season Roars Back
New quarterback in purple. Kyler Murray is the man in Minnesota now, and ESPN is asking the question Vikings fans have heard for decades: can he be the team's first true franchise…