The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump tries explain why the Reflecting Pool is algae green and its blue lining is peeling. Police arrest a former Olympic canoe racer on a bike ride [31d]
• Vice President JD Vance heads to Switzerland for talks with Iran but says he will only be there ‘for a day or two’ [31d]
• A new trade war may be brewing. This time, Europe is taking a page from Trump’s playbook — ‘We no longer live in a world of pink ponies and rainbows’ [31d]
• Trump threatens to charge U.S. tolls in Strait of Hormuz for ‘services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle East’ [32d]
• Who needs rate cuts? Even the Fed’s new chair admits companies are easily raising capital on financial markets amid epic stock and debt binge [32d]
• Americans on Trump and Iran: 65% disapprove, just like his job (dis)approval [32d]
• ‘People are tired of hearing what government can’t do’: Democratic Socialists surge nationwide [32d]
• The first 100 visitors to the Obama Presidential center got a surprise: Barack and Michelle [32d]
• Trump’s student loan rate cut excludes most of the 9 million borrowers in default [32d]
• ‘I literally was crying last night because I’m nervous about what I’m going to find out’: a record 51% of Americans aren’t ‘cost secure’ on health [32d]
• U.S. Mens National Team wins consecutive World Cup games for first time since 1930, one goal away from record [32d]
• Claude Guillemot, who built Ubisoft into a gaming empire, dies at 69 in plane crash [32d]
• Bolivia’s president calls in military after road blockades uncork violence and death [32d]
• The pope knows Peru’s mines firsthand, but a top banker is pleading with him to change his mind on rare earths [32d]
• Meloni rips into Trump for ‘completely fabricated’ claims about a photo opp at the G7 Summit [32d]
• James Burrows, director who defined the American sitcom from ‘Cheers’ to ‘Friends,’ dies at 85 [32d]
• Shipping companies will decide when the Strait of Hormuz is truly open—not the U.S. or Iran—and the latest deal is already sowing confusion [32d]
• Trump’s Cuba sanctions force the island’s biggest economic shift since Castro: towards capitalism [32d]
• Iran floats ‘insurance fees’ and asserts control over Hormuz [32d]
• Utah’s measles outbreak has slowed, but the start of school and colder weather in the fall may create another surge. ‘It’s still transmitting’ [32d]
• New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s decision to drop forward guidance may actually empower the central bank’s other policymakers [32d]
• World Cup fans say tickets never arrived and orders were canceled. ‘He had told all his friends that he was going to that game. He literally cried’ [32d]
• Trump shows off new Air Force One, a gift from Qatar, and admits ‘a normal president wouldn’t do this’ [32d]
• Senators are particularly concerned about the $300 billion fund for Iranian reconstruction as Congress asks if war was worth it [32d]
• Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again, citing Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, and downplays delayed talks with U.S. that will begin in Switzerland [32d]
• EY: we found your biggest AI blind spot. It’s called the ‘tempo gap’ [32d]
• A Saints legend is selling fans a piece of professional sports for $500 [32d]
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world [32d]
• Beef is becoming a luxury as prices stay at record highs. They likely won’t come down until 2028, says Farm Bureau [32d]
• Gen Z grad landed a job at LinkedIn by waitressing at a conference full of recruiters and handing out her résumé during breaks—now she works at Google [32d]
• GoDaddy Corporate Domains chief: The next Internet land rush is happening right now [32d]
• Executive pay climbed again in 2025—and the CEO-to-worker gap kept widening [32d]
• The Great Recession’s missing children are finally bringing college’s financial crisis into sight. Welcome to the ‘enrollment volatility’ era [32d]
• Why odds of SpaceX merger with Tesla keep climbing every time the stock shoots up [32d]
• Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup [32d]
• With the exits of Apple’s Tim Cook and Dow’s Jim Fitterling, the Fortune 500 is losing two groundbreaking gay CEOs—leaving just one [32d]
• Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $1.25 trillion empire [32d]