Congress passes several bills while the DOJ decides not to appeal a court ruling and 16 US states introduce daylight saving time bills.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-06 01:38Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A warm light falls on the US Capitol building as people in business attire walk around the steps, some looking at papers, others talking, while a few glance up at the clock tower, with a subtle shadow of a tree in the foreground and a clear blue sky above.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A warm light falls on the US Capitol building as people in business attire walk around the steps, some looking at papers, others talking, while a few glance up at the clock tower, with a subtle shadow of a tree in the foreground and a clear blue sky above. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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Department of State posts $26.5M Accenture obligation in 2 October contract batch
Five separate contract obligations were recorded by the Department of State on 2026-10-02, totalling $38.43M in new committed funds.
By Nora Castellanos · 49mFederal spending data shows the Department of State obligated $26.5M to ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC on 2 October 2026 under award 19AQMM25F7037.
This was the largest single obligation posted by the agency that day. Total obligations against the Accenture award now stand at $128M.
Four smaller obligations were posted the same day.
The Department of State obligated $3.95M to GREAT HILL SOLUTIONS, LLC under award 19AQMM25C0086. Cumulative obligations on that award reach $10.7M.
$3.71M was obligated to THE MIL CORPORATION under award 19AQMM26F7063. That award now has $5.42M total obligations to date.
MUSCOGEE STAFFING SOLUTIONS, LLC received $3.02M under award 19AQMM26F0315, bringing that award's total to $4.13M.
APPLIED DEVELOPMENT, LLC received $1.25M under award 19AQMM25F0592. Total obligations on that award are now $5.53M.
By this paper's arithmetic, the five obligations posted 2 October total $38.43M in new committed funds. No modification purpose or period of performance details were included in the posted records.
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