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The Sterling Report:• Iran’s infrastructure comes under sustained attack. • Ukraine and Europe reshape the security landscape. • Greece struggles through worsening drought. • Apple and Nvidia trade places atop Wall Street. • A CDC food safety warning. • Oregon lightning fires and Texas flooding. • A new World Cup tradition. • World Skydiving Day sets a record. • And, For What It’s Worth… the lonely four-year-old whose wave brought an entire neighborhood together.

Texas faces another dangerous flooding event while new developments overseas raise concerns over global shipping. Plus the latest economic headlines, Starship Flight 13, an unusual Blue Angels safety review, and an extraordinary wildlife discovery eighteen years in the making.

Oil prices climb as fighting expands in the Middle East. A family memorial cruise turns tragic in San Francisco Bay. Scientists head toward Greenland aboard a ship with an unforgettable backstory. Plus America’s western heat dome, immigration developments, World Cup action, an unexploded World War II grenade, and one unforgettable lesson from a flooded Texas apartment.

Inflation cooled in June, but families are still feeling the strain. Art Sterling examines America’s heat dome, major wildfires in Minnesota and France, and a frozen-blueberry recall. Then: 22,000 Pitbull fans break a bald-cap record, a T. rex named Gus sells for more than $50 million, a father and son survive an ocean landing, and a coded light above San Jose finally reveals its three-year secret.

International tensions continue to rise while dangerous heat grips millions. We also look at America’s blood emergency, an inspiring World Cup journey, an exciting medical breakthrough, and a remarkable lesson from one of nature’s greatest travelers.

In a world engineered to erase the wait, Art Sterling makes the case for patience. From a Stanford nursery school to the spires of a six-hundred-year-old cathedral, from the giant sequoias of California to whales returning to seas we nearly emptied, this Sterling Special is a meditation on the things that refuse to be rushed. The harvest still in the dirt. The child not yet grown. The healing that takes longer than we were promised. A reminder that the things worth having keep their own time, and always have.Featuring the research of Dr. Gloria Mark on human attention, the famous marshmallow test of psychologist Walter Mischel, and the quiet arithmetic of nature’s comebacks.

Today’s Sterling Report covers rising tensions with Iran, a mysterious new fuel network offering unusually cheap gasoline, NATO developments, remarkable world records, unusual human-interest stories, and an unforgettable ending involving a painting that unexpectedly found its way back to its creator after half a century.

Another day of remarkable stories from around America and around the world. From renewed conflict in the Middle East and surprising diplomatic developments to strange small-town moments, practical money news, inspiring human triumphs, and the unforgettable story behind one of music’s most recognizable voices.

Escalating conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. Major economic developments in America. Weather across the country. Plus remarkable human-interest stories, a famous elephant seal in Tasmania, and a heartfelt “For What It’s Worth” that proves sometimes the answer has been with us all along.

Today’s Sterling Report covers the attempted bombing near French President Emmanuel Macron during a state visit to Syria, escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and at the NATO summit, severe weather across the United States, Cuba’s latest nationwide blackout, dramatic World Cup developments, and a remarkable scientific discovery about early humans that closes today’s report.

A controversial World Cup decision… a remarkable discovery across the Atlantic… and one Fourth of July story that reminds us what people can do when they refuse to give up.Those stories—and several others you may have missed—on today’s Sterling Report.

The song you sing at the fireworks was written about being shot at.Tonight, when they go off — don’t watch the sky. Watch the faces.Happy 250th birthday, America. 🇺🇸🎆7 stories. 7 days. One country.

We know a few of the names on the Declaration of Independence. We’ve forgotten what signing actually cost them. Signing was treason, and the penalty was death — and these weren’t reckless young men with nothing to lose. They were the most respectable men in America, with fortunes and families and everything to lose. And they signed anyway. This is the story of the price they paid: the scholar broken in a freezing prison, the father offered his captured sons’ freedom if he’d recant, the old farmer hunted into the winter mountains, the financier who bankrolled the revolution and died in a debtor’s cell — and the one signer who, under torture, finally broke.Day 6 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.The Sterling Report is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Seven stories. Seven days. One country. 🇺🇸

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, Art Sterling presents a special Independence Day commentary examining the state of the nation beyond the daily headlines.Drawing on history, perspective, and the enduring character of the American people, this episode asks whether America is truly broken—or whether we’ve simply forgotten where to look.

Independence nearly failed. On July 1, 1776, the vote fell short — the colonies split, the alliance cracking — and one man who could break the tie was eighty miles away, dying of cancer, when a violent thunderstorm rolled in. Caesar Rodney rode anyway. This is the story of the reluctant year, the man who stepped aside for a cause he opposed, the dying rider in the rain, and the strange truth about why we celebrate on the wrong day. The things we call inevitable were never guaranteed. They hung by a thread.Day 5 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.The Sterling Report is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Seven stories. Seven days. One country. 🇺🇸

Eight days beneath a collapsed shopping mall… and one man refuses to give up.Today on The Sterling Report, Art Sterling brings you the stories behind today’s headlines: Ukraine’s deadly overnight missile attack, the miraculous rescue of Hernán Gil after eight days trapped beneath rubble in Venezuela, the heat gripping America before Independence Day, an unforgettable proposal atop the Empire State Building that ended in handcuffs, preparations for America’s historic 250th birthday celebration, humpback whales returning to Rio, a famous World Cup duck, and one Arizona school officer who quietly changed the lives of 144 children.Real news. Real stories. The brighter side of America… and the world.🇺🇸 New episodes every morning.

Federal agents confront a father over a single email. The Supreme Court issues a unanimous ruling on birthright citizenship. Venezuela’s death toll continues to rise as American troops assist in rescue efforts. Plus a dangerous U.S. heat wave, a new Florida law that could save children’s lives, a rescue dog making miracles happen, and a 2,000-year-old scroll that finally revealed its secrets.Stand by for news.

He beat the most powerful empire on earth — and then did the one thing no conqueror in history had done. When an officer put it in writing that he should be king, George Washington wrote back the same day and refused. Twice he handed absolute power back and went home to his farm. This is the story of the man who could have been king, the ancient Roman he modeled himself on, and why he dreaded the presidency like a walk to the gallows.Day 4 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.The Sterling Report is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Seven stories. Seven days. One country. 🇺🇸

History remembers who wrote the Declaration of Independence. It forgot the immigrant printer who set it in type through the night — and the one stray letter that almost created a completely different country. This is the story of the forgotten hands that carried America’s promise to a continent: the printer, the riders in the mud, the women who held it all together, the soldiers with no statues. The words got the glory. But the carrying is the country.Day 3 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.The Sterling Report is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Seven stories. Seven days. One country. 🇺🇸

A drone collides with a JetBlue airliner over New York. President Trump demands lower gas prices ahead of the Fourth of July and warns against price gouging. A dangerous heat dome spreads across much of America as millions prepare to travel. Plus, a surprising museum discovery, Wall Street rallies, holiday travel tips, Costco’s Independence Day closure, and a story you’ll remember in today’s “For What It’s Worth.”Join Art Sterling for today’s headlines, the stories behind them, and a thoughtful look at the people, places, and moments that often go unnoticed.🇺🇸 New episodes every weekday.

The most famous thing King George III ever “said” about losing America — he never said it. The quote was invented in our own lifetime, and borrowed from another doomed king. The truth is stranger and sadder: a good man who believed he was defending freedom, who lived to watch his enemy hand power back, and who died not knowing his own wife’s name. A story about the oldest mistake there is — believing the world can’t change under your feet.Day 2 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.The Sterling Report is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Seven stories. Seven days. One country. 🇺🇸

A miraculous rescue in Venezuela. A missing child found nearly 1,500 miles from home. A California couple runs toward danger in Mexico. Plus, the World Cup, CherryBaby101, and why visitors from around the globe are rediscovering the America many of us take for granted.

250 years ago this week, in a hot little room in Philadelphia, a handful of ordinary men did the most dangerous thing of their lives — and built a nation out of a single sentence.This is Day One of our seven-part countdown to America’s 250th birthday. 🇺🇸Art Sterling takes you back to 1776 — to the desk where Thomas Jefferson wrote the words that defined a country, and the two small edits that changed everything.Seven days. Seven stories. One country. A new Sterling Special Report every day through the Fourth of July.Like 👍 and follow so you don’t miss a day of the countdown.#America250 #July4th #AmericanHistory

SNITCHES GET STITCHES?It’s an old saying.But what happens when governments encourage neighbors to report neighbors?This Sterling Special Report journeys from Salem to East Germany, from Anne Frank to the Underground Railroad, asking what history teaches about trust, liberty, and the people living right next door.As America turns 250, it’s a story worth remembering.

Two devastating earthquakes strike Venezuela just seconds apart.Europe faces an unprecedented heat emergency as temperatures shatter records across the continent.The U.S. Supreme Court delivers three major decisions in one morning, while Washington reverses itself in less than forty-eight hours.Plus, a look back at the day the Korean War began……and the remarkable story of a fifteen-year-old Scottish boy who saw two strangers in trouble and launched his own rescue before professional crews could arrive.The Sterling Report with Art Sterling. News told differently. Short. Clear. Memorable.#SterlingReport #WorldNews #BreakingNews #Venezuela #EuropeHeatwave #SupremeCourt #KoreanWar #Scotland #GoodNews #ArtSterling

A nation ground to a halt. A thousand-year-old secret surfaced from the earth. And one familiar name became famous while the man behind it disappeared.Plus storms, diplomacy, space history, and one of the world’s most unusual religious traditions.

Today on The Sterling Report: London’s climate talks meet dangerous heat in real time, Europe’s heat wave turns deadly, Chico faces a library shooting, the Supreme Court rules in a green-card immigration case, warehouse and industrial fires burn in Los Angeles and Houston, markets fall, and Chad Caruso crosses America on a skateboard.

Today on The Sterling Report: a Seattle dim sum meal breaks a Guinness World Record, researchers explain how heat stress is becoming longer and harder on the body, and a Texas truck crash releases about two million bees. Plus: the day’s major news from the DEA fentanyl investigation, Qatar, U.S.-Iran talks, South Korea, Brexit, and more.

Art Sterling covers the day’s sharp turns: Europe’s hard vote on migrant returns, a Tokyo school fire, Times Square gunfire, a U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat, Luigi Mangione’s defense reversal, a deportation case involving South Sudan and Vietnam, World Cup ticket trouble, Dragon Boat Festival traditions, ranch dressing at TSA, a record-setting town crier, fungi cleaning river water, and a medical first for a young burn patient in Ontario.

On today’s Sterling Report: the U.S. and Iran sign an initial deal to end fighting and begin nuclear talks, an eighteen-year-old dies after a Central Park carriage accident, archaeologists find what may be an early wooden model for Stonehenge, and Sherwood Forest loses the Major Oak. Plus: stocks rebound, gas prices fall below four dollars, Wales refuses a coal mine expansion, Jessica Meir captures the Southern Lights from space, ancient teeth change the plague timeline, Tom Dreesen dies at eighty-six, and beavers help ease flooding near a London Tube station.

Today on The Sterling Report: a Texas highway turns into a rescue scene after a business jet crashes and catches fire, Tropical Storm Arthur forms in the Gulf, Ireland makes basic income for artists permanent, a runaway Tasmanian devil is finally caught, the world’s oldest tortoise adds another record, rescued grizzlies get a snow day, and Kevin Bacon becomes Kevin Bean.

On today’s Sterling Report: a disrupted attack plot targeting the White House UFC event, a deadly B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base, and a possible U.S.-Iran signing ceremony. Plus: Pizza Hut is sold, gold and silver prices move, Royal Ascot hats take over the grandstand, Merlin the duck becomes a World Cup favorite, new UFO files include a potato-shaped object, Bridgeport girls prepare to launch the HERSound Podcast, scientists extract RNA from mammoth remains, and McDonald’s brings back the fried apple pie with a 35-foot roadside sculpture.

On today’s Sterling Report: the G7 summit opens in France, Russia strikes Ukraine, Britain targets social media use by children under sixteen, and Rio investigates a deadly helicopter collision. Plus: SpaceX continues moving after Friday’s market debut, gold and silver prices, UFC Freedom 250 on the White House grounds, a seven-hour cliff rescue in San Francisco, the world’s largest soccer ball in Boston Harbor, a kangaroo loose near Montreal, deer crossing an unfinished wildlife bridge, and a former fisherman cleaning trash from Canadian harbors.

In this Sterling Special Report, Art Sterling traces the long and surprising history of fighters in the White House — from Andrew Jackson’s duels and George Washington’s wrestling days, to Abraham Lincoln’s prairie strength, Theodore Roosevelt’s boxing and judo in the White House basement, and Donald Trump’s decades-long connection to boxing, wrestling, and the fight game. With a UFC octagon planned for the South Lawn, the story becomes something more than a spectacle. It becomes a look at America’s restless, striving, combative spirit — and the presidents who carried it.

Art Sterling covers the World Cup’s return to American soil, Canada’s first home World Cup match, the revival of ancient golden sea silk, SpaceX’s historic market debut, a Stanford cartilage breakthrough, the UFC coming to the White House lawn, a loose skunk in Wisconsin, Scottish fans running bars dry, and George Mason’s forgotten stand for the rights Americans still live under.

Art Sterling covers the day’s sharp turns and strange corners: the World Cup begins, James Webb finds a planet with two different skies, Canada weighs social media restrictions for young users, the Knicks make history, NASA heads to the World Cup Fan Festival, eight goats test the patience of Ohio deputies, and a dog named Bruce survives a drift into the North Sea.

Wednesday’s Sterling Report covers earthquake recovery in the southern Philippines, global economic talks, EU-South Korea digital trade, a Somali World Cup referee’s homecoming, a major U.S. immigration enforcement bill, national park history disputes, an Ebola monitoring case ending safely, World Cup hydration breaks, a deep whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, China’s neutrino detector, World War One soldiers buried in Belgium, loose pigs in Connecticut, a fifty-sweater world record, and a Quebec boy’s painted-rock snake.

A U.S. Army Apache goes down near the Strait of Hormuz, two aviators are rescued by a Navy drone boat, oil traders watch the Middle East, and economists expect interest rates to stay steady. Plus: state primaries, a surveillance deadline in Congress, river cleanup ahead of the 2028 Olympics, a California condor’s historic return to Oregon, ancient discoveries in Scotland and Germany, rescued dogs, and one Oklahoma cat nursing an orphaned rabbit.

On today’s Sterling Report, Monday delivers jittery markets, rough June weather, masked wrestlers promoting reading, Australia’s massive illegal cockroach seizure, a surprise box office win, Broadway’s Tony Awards, Christian Eriksen’s frightening collapse and hopeful update, and a South London hospice reunion with a twist almost too beautiful to believe.

There was a time when going to the movies felt like entering a little temple on Main Street. You sat down in the dark, and the movie began.But somewhere between the red carpet and the quarterly report, Hollywood began to mistake recognition for wonder. Reboots replaced risk. Nostalgia became a business plan. Franchises stopped earning loyalty and started demanding it.In this Sterling Special Report, Art Sterling explores the strain on the old bargain between Hollywood and the audience. From Star Wars becoming a managed brand to the rise of internet-born horror like Backrooms and Obsession, this is a story about money, memory, risk, and the one thing Hollywood still cannot manufacture by committee: a good story.

A drone drifts into a NATO port. Pirates surface from the sea floor. Fire tornadoes may become an oil-spill tool. And in California, three mule deer cross a bridge built not for cars, but for them. Art Sterling brings the day’s serious, strange, and hopeful stories together.

A missing Everest guide, a mountain rescue, monsoon rains, war powers, strange science, Notre Dame’s hidden layers, rare otter pups, and a Taiwanese snail race — today’s Sterling Report follows the stories that make the day serious, strange, and worth hearing.

Art Sterling follows the day’s serious and strange stories: PewDiePie’s Odysseus self-hosted AI workspace, Amazon overtaking Walmart on the Fortune 500, the hidden power and water costs of AI data centers, new species discovered on Angola’s Lisima plateau, Oamaru’s steampunk festival, humanoid robots in Tokyo, WKRP becoming real radio in Cincinnati, Bryce Harper’s unusual toothbrushing routine, and a For What It’s Worth closer on the surprising science of homing pigeons.

Today on The Sterling Report: El Niño may be returning, Britain’s oldest known rock art emerges from a Welsh cave, Uber’s lost-and-found box tells on America, and NASA explains the boom that shook parts of New England. Plus, a Long Island village has no mayoral candidates, America prepares for its 250th birthday, a Missouri man finds a $50,000 lottery ticket in his truck, and a Sydney concert is saved by a pianist from the audience.

In this Sterling Special Report, Art Sterling examines the rise of flattering artificial intelligence, the growing use of chatbots for emotional advice, China’s rapid push in the global AI race, and the need for temperance in the age of powerful machines. A human-centered report on technology, truth, and the future worth keeping.

Art Sterling follows the strange and tender stories off the main road: Shuetsu Sato’s duct-tape signs in Tokyo, an electric toilet-paper haul in Australia, Arcata’s Kinetic Grand Championship, a robin nest stopping a Ford F-250 in Olathe, a blue whale skeleton at Oregon State’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, hope for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, and Joe Symonds, the 87-year-old DoorDash driver whose wrong turn led to unexpected help.

Art Sterling follows the stories hiding in plain sight: a golden yak from folklore, a sea slug smaller than sesame, a hidden chamber beneath Lincoln, a chatbot caution, a record made of paper cups, and the Chrysler Building’s secret race for the sky.

Art Sterling covers a Roman villa discovery in northern France, early heat across Western Europe, a Minnesota Medicaid fraud case, the death of Clarence B. Jones, the Garden Grove chemical tank scare, plans for a UFC event on the White House South Lawn, Miles Davis’s 100th birthday, and the near-eradication of Guinea worm disease.

Art Sterling marks Memorial Day with a look at American military cemeteries around the world, the Dutch families who adopt graves at Margraten, the origins of Decoration Day, unsettled holiday weather, public tours at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, 108-year-old Susan Young Browne renewing her license in Delaware, Sausal Creek restoration in Oakland, and the science behind children’s laughter.

Today’s Sterling Report takes the side roads: Norway’s electric flying ferries, hydrogen seeping from ancient Canadian rock, oysters rebuilding a harbor, a million bees on a Tennessee ramp, goats leading rescuers to a buried storm shelter, AI watching for whales, and thousands of trout carried home one silver flash at a time