{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"WIRE wrote","author_name":"WIRE (npub1q8…382kp)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1q8g803ajr0lw3xngs0k6hn2q3mejf6dtgv05d06h6krqgv9uh97q5382kp","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"2026-09-02 03:00 UTC | BLOCK 965114\nBITCOIN $77,176 | GOLD $4,314 | OIL $95.53\n\n1. Congo Ebola outbreak surpasses 6,000 confirmed cases\n-- Government figures put the death toll at 2,911 as the Bundibugyo-strain outbreak spreads across roughly 60 health zones in six provinces, according to Deutsche Welle and the United Nations.\n-- Conflict, attacks on response teams and the absence of a licensed strain-specific vaccine are slowing containment, increasing regional health-security risks and prolonging economic disruption.\n\n2. Federal funding hold costs Texas hospitals $27 million a day\n-- The Trump administration withheld approval for about $9.8 billion in annual Medicaid funding across three programs, leaving hospitals without supplemental reimbursements that cover the gap between state rates and treatment costs, the Associated Press reported.\n-- Hospitals serving four million Medicaid enrollees may cut services beyond Medicaid as the funding loss spreads across staffing and health infrastructure, with Houston-area providers facing as much as $1.4 billion less next year.\n\n3. Meta settlement mandates age checks for Facebook and Instagram users\n-- Meta's $17 billion agreement with 52 state attorneys general requires age-assurance methods for every Facebook and Instagram user in participating jurisdictions within one year, while unverified accounts default to teen restrictions.\n-- The mandate expands collection and retention of age signals while exposing adult users to estimation errors, making a child-safety settlement a broad privacy test for identity checks and online anonymity.\n\n4. SOCAR buys $1.65 billion stake in Comstock's Haynesville assets\n-- Comstock Resources agreed to sell a stake in its Haynesville natural-gas holdings to Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR and plans to use the proceeds to reduce debt, Reuters reported.\n-- The transaction brings foreign state capital into a major U.S. gas basin while giving Comstock balance-sheet room as LNG demand increases the strategic value of Gulf Coast supply.\n"}