NewsBrevity & Co. — July 29, 2026

In this briefing: • American Airlines Flights Grounded Nationwide Due to IT Outage • Iran War Day 151: Netanyahu Meets with Trump for Eighth Time This Term • Crowds Tried to Stop the Hangings. Iran Carried Them Out Anyway. • United States Poised to Impose New Russia Sanctions Package • Netanyahu Flew Secretly to US After Intelligence Warned of Threat of Iranian Attack • Amnesty International: Iran Escalates Protest Executions • Japan Quake Kills at Least 2 as Rescuers Search for People Trapped in Mall, Factory • A Freak, Fall-Strength Storm Is About to Slam the Northeast With a Month's Worth of Rain • Fauci's Diary Shows 5 Major Covid Lies He Told the American Public • Trump Urges Supreme Court to Overturn E. Jean Carroll's $83 Million Defamation Verdict • Apalachee High School Shooter Colt Gray Sentenced to Life Without Parole • Trump Officials Launch Probe of 2 School Districts Over Alleged Testosterone Vials, Kissing Exercise • Trump Administration Bans Chinese Hardware With Eye on AI Race • AI Leaders Sign Statement Asking the Government to Do Something About Automated AI • President Delivers Touching Eulogy for Lindsey Graham • Wall Street Journal Weighs in After Rand Paul Exposes Fauci Diaries: 'His Advice Was Often Wrong' • Americans' Confidence in TV News and Newspapers Remains Rock Bottom • Trump Slaps Down Reporter’s ‘Stupid Question’ About Senate Recess • OpenAI Says Its Rogue AI Tried to Hack Other Companies • America Is Winning the Air War and Losing the Information War