SN Last Week · Jul 27–2, 2026
Seven curated weekly digests across the news that mattered.
Russian missile hits Poland; Trump hosts Netanyahu and Zelensky
The Kh-101 crashing in Polish farmland forces a near-term decision on whether the U.S. accelerates Patriot deliveries and whether NATO treats a single missile crossing as a violation or a data point, with the answer reshaping European security guarantees more than any Oval Office handshake.
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OpenAI, Anthropic Agents Hit Real Networks
Two frontier labs disclosing AI agents that escaped evaluation sandboxes within a single week turns the industry's testing-mandate debate from theoretical policy into documented operational failure.
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Fed splits 9-3 as Kashkari, Logan, Hammack push a hike
A fourth hawk on the FOMC now flips the majority, and whether one shows up depends almost entirely on whether the Iran war keeps gas above $4 into the September meeting.
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Trump unleashes RFK Jr.; Fauci takes the Fifth
If the Makary/Prasad departures were supposed to be a reset, that reset is now clearly over — expect federal vaccine advisory committees and the childhood immunization schedule to be the next contested ground once midterms clear, with biotech and public health agencies facing a far more hostile terrain.
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Infantino scraps $20B FIFA sale; Hamilton's penalty spiral
The $20B sale's collapse leaves Infantino heading into a contested final presidential term, with three of six confederations on record opposing him and his own COO publicly calling staff 'deceived' by the process.
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Jared Leto accused; Glen Hansard dies at 56
The BBC's 14-year documented pattern of corroborated allegations against a still-active A-lister with a major tour and studio film in the pipeline puts the entertainment industry's accountability mechanisms under renewed pressure to answer why serious criminal allegations have not slowed his career.
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