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Sources: WaPo plans to launch video podcasts, one hosted by columnist Megan McArdle next month and a flagship show led by Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal in January (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

Post Traumatic Disorder
Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

Post Traumatic Disorder (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p39#a251008p39

Trump Admin Gets UN To Slash 'Ineffective' Peacekeeping Force's US-Funded Budget (Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-gets-un-to-slash-ineffective-peacekeeping-forces-us-funded-budget/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p139#a251008p139

An active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Bliss was arrested Wednesday in El Paso 
on charges of espionage
for allegedly attempting to transmit national defense information about United States tanks to Russia.
Twenty two year-old Taylor Adam Lee,
who held a top-secret security clearance,
allegedly tried to share sensitive information on the U.S. Army’s M1A2 Abrams tank
with someone he believed represented the Russian government.
He is accused of passi…

Fort Bliss soldier arrested for attempting to send US tank secrets to Russia
A Fort Bliss soldier was arrested for allegedly trying to pass classified U.S. tank data to Russia in exchange for citizenship, the Justice Department said.

XG-Attention-WGAN PIC: Utilizing XGboost-Attention-WGAN for Photonics Integrated Circuit Design
Mahmood Hasani, Atena Shircharandabi, Masiha Rabiei, Mobin Motaharifar, Mehrdad Ghasemi, Yaser Mike Banad, Sarah Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03651

XG-Attention-WGAN PIC: Utilizing XGboost-Attention-WGAN for Photonics Integrated Circuit Design
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are fundamental for optical computing, communication, quantum information processing, and precision sensing. However, traditional numerical simulations for designing PIC components are computationally intensive and struggle with high-dimensional parameter spaces. This paper introduces XG-Attention-WGAN PIC, a novel framework that synergistically combines Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to enhance pa…

Individual sailors and soldiers who destroyed boat Tuesday may have committed war crimes.
"'…zero evidence of self-defense…Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,' according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at…Washington Office on Latin America. 'Even if…drugs aboard…not a capital offense.'"
Lethal force against civilians in international waters 'is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson."

Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law
Attack raises serious questions about president’s legal authority for lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers

Source: The Washington Post's Opinion editor, Adam O'Neal, is laying off six employees and some contractors as part of a plan to shake up the section (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1973826666121097505

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
scoop: Adam O’Neal, the new Opinion Editor at The Washington Post, is laying off staffers as part of a plan to shake up the section. A source says six employees are affected. I’ve also been told some contractors are being terminated. Here’s one email provided by a source:

Trump administration to help share new HIV drug with impacted nations (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/04/trump-hiv-aids-pepfar-lenacapavir-gilead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p146#a250904p146

Raiders Are Confident in Position That Was Once a Weakness https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-aidan-oconnell-pete-carroll-training-camp-seattle-seahawks

An interview with WaPo's new Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal on its editorial pivot to "personal liberties and free markets", why people don't trust WaPo, and more (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/editorial-ov

Editorial overhaul: Washington Post's new opinion chief feels the weight of the challenges ahead
The Washington Post's new opinion editor Adam O'Neal spoke with Fox News Digital about the challenges he faces as he reshapes the paper's editorial pages.