Where’s the beef? Trump says he’s got ‘300,000 metric tons’ of it
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

President announces cattle imports to be sold at below-market rates until just after Election Day

Trump’s ‘impossible reunion’ stunt shows the writers of this soap opera are getting lazy
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

Television procedurals resurrect dead characters when the writers' room is out of ideas. With his approval at an anemic 38 percent, prices climbing and a war in its sixth month, the president needs a subject he can still book — and Kim Jong-un is next, writes Andrew Feinberg

Group blasts Trump’s ‘baseless’ threats of $5B defamation lawsuit over National Guard report he didn’t like
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

Center for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden says the president is trying to ‘silence’ the group with yet another First Amendment threat

West Nile virus deaths are climbing as US enters peak season for deadly mosquito-borne infections
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

Most people infected with West Nile virus are asymptomatic but roughly one in five experience develop flu-like symptoms or worse

Several people injured in sword attack on Swedish high school
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

The school had just opened after summer recess and for some students Friday was their first day at the senior high school

Publix is making a major change to how its express lanes operate
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

Supermarket chain operates more than 1,400 stores across eight southeastern states

Employer ‘backs down on four-day return-to-office’ after protests
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

Airbus workers had protested the plans to work on-site four days a week by September

Taylor Farms lettuce that sparked explosive diarrhea outbreak may have been shipped to 7 more states
Posted on Friday August 21, 2026

There are now 27,000 cases of the parasitic infection reported across the country