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Politics

• We prioritized the Iran-US exchange, spillover into Gulf states, TPS and border/asylum policy, and the war-powers fight because they had the clearest policy and market implications.
• Peripheral campaign and rally items were downgraded because they were less directly tied to policy or security.

Economy

• We kept jobless claims, consumer spending, the Fed signal, the global growth outlook, and mortgage rates to show both household conditions and financial tightening.
• Short-lived market noise was deprioritized in favor of items that move consumer and macro decisions.

Technology

• We grouped AI safety, imitation claims, data-center investment, labor constraints, and capex scale to show the shift from model race to infrastructure race.
• Rumors without a firm source were excluded.

Selection Notes

• In politics, side stories about events and personnel were dropped in favor of Iran and immigration rulings.
• In economy, we chose durable signals over one-day market swings.
• In tech, unverified product leaks were excluded in favor of source-backed AI and infrastructure news.