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Politics

• Picked the Supreme Court birthright-citizenship fight, birth-tourism response, Turkey’s NATO leverage, pre-summit media pressure, and Trump’s fight over the E. Jean Carroll payout because each one has an immediate policy or legal aftershock.
• Older Gaza and Ukraine items were pushed down when they did not add a sharper next-step decision point than the NATO and court stories.

Economy

• Picked jobs, rates, gasoline, memory supply, and tariff uncertainty because each one feeds directly into second-half spending, imports, or pricing.
• Dropped broad market chatter and kept only stories with a clear path into policy, logistics, or procurement.

Technology

• Picked OpenAI’s Codex hardware tease, Microsoft’s Frontier Company, the Copilot-centered OS leak, the Google antitrust ruling, and the memory squeeze story.
• The set balances product news, enterprise deployment, operating-system design, regulation, and semiconductor supply.

Selection Notes

• Downgraded older geopolitics without a fresh decision or market hook.
• Kept only tech items with either a company statement, a concrete leak, or a court/regulatory action.
• In economy, favored stories that flow into rates, tariffs, or procurement instead of general macro commentary.