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A man had a television show he could not sell. The networks did not want science fiction. So he stopped calling it science fiction and told them it was a Western.They bought it. Then they cancelled it.Also: a drought shuts a national park, and the leopards get it to themselves. Four paintings out a window in the south of France, and two of them nobody alive can buy. A volcano called the Child, and what its parent did in 1883. An island in the dark with ninety one percent of the lights out. Bears down among the houses. A driveway in Malibu that went into the sea. A seventy nine year old on a mountain, and the Black Hawk that came for him. And a boat that turned toward the fire instead of away from it.Tuesday, September 8th, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

Sixty years ago a young man in New Jersey signed up to run toward other people's worst nights. Nobody ever paid him a dime for it.Last week his town thanked him. Which is usually how these things end.Also: a general who handed out chocolate to children, buried this morning with a crowd in the street. A promise the Germans call the firewall. Twenty one miles of water that a fifth of the world's oil has to pass through. A hurricane that has made its turn, and the anniversary falling on Friday. A voice out over Elliott Bay before daylight. A man on the Passaic River aboard something that belongs in a bedroom. And a mountain near Antarctica with something in its crater that has never once gone cold.Monday, September 7th, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

They painted a school bus every color there was and put a sign on the front with where they were going. Somebody spelled it wrong. Nobody ever fixed it.Sixty years later it comes back to San Francisco.Also: nine days underground, and two men come up through a hole in the mud. A drone found lying inside an airport fence, and what it was lying next to. Wool on a dying glacier. A hurricane whose trouble is not where it is. Something floating in the medicine on a hospital crash cart. A fine paid eight months ago and a lesson apparently unlearned. Nineteen hundred Chicagoans doing to themselves what they usually save for company. And a ring under a rock, twenty eight years gone.Friday, September 4th, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

They looked for thirty six years. Cassini flew around that planet for thirteen of them and never saw a thing.Then Saturn turned back toward us, and there it was.Also: a boy of seventeen climbs a fence, and taking him turns out to be the mistake. A president flies to Cairo and tells the room who ought to be in charge of it. A storm that will not move. A company firing people while the money comes in. A town fifteen minutes down the road that dug its own wells. A woman whose mother taught her to play three weeks ago. And a burglar at the top of the stairs, growling.Plus a correction we owed you.Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

Boaters kept calling it in. Trees on it. Grown trees. Drifting.The man at the power company looked at the pictures and figured somebody had made them on a computer.Also: a court sits down to define a word that nobody had to define four years ago. A king swears an oath four days after a funeral. Two governments using the same word to mean opposite things. A storm that could not make up its mind. A shot given on the first day of a life, and who is not getting it now. Somebody telling stories about electricity. A scalpel that met something it could not cut. A company that changed hands with nobody clapping. And a farm in Kentucky that a man never left.Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

Three people came to him with a warning that morning. Not one of them could say what was coming.So he rang the bell.A ferry that should not have sailed. A valley that flooded twice. A rain that fell on the wrong ground. A man who looked out his front window and went outside. And six thousand young trees given a disease on purpose.Monday, August 31st, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.

King Harald of Norway has died at eighty-nine. As a boy he fled an invasion, and an American president took his family in. As a young man he told his father what he would surrender rather than give up the woman he loved.The Nepal-Tibet toll climbs past five hundred and seventy-nine, with ninety Americans unaccounted for and two new lakes hanging above the valley.Japan spends ninety-six billion dollars propping up the yen, and the result is worth hearing. The Fed chairman says nothing at Jackson Hole and the bond market answers anyway. Money waiting for Kroger pharmacy customers who act before December. And a mailbox test that changed the odds for three hundred seventy-six thousand people.A New Hampshire man whose house was on fire made a decision at five in the morning. A line drawn through Arizona tribal land in 1853 comes back around. And in Oklahoma, the hundred and fiftieth year of a dance that has never once been missed.A king crowned at three. A foal born where none has been born in two centuries. And a speech with a different title.Art Sterling. The news, straight down the middle.

What the instruments recorded on the Nepal-Tibet border was not what anyone first believed, and the correction changes the whole story. The toll has multiplied since yesterday.A glacier in far northern Greenland lets go of an island of ice the size of Manhattan. Nvidia posts ninety-six billion dollars in a quarter and gets squeezed by something ordinary. The makers of ChatGPT build a chip in nine months, and how they designed it is the part worth hearing.Meta pays seventeen billion over harm to children, and the market reacts in a way you might not expect. A jobless figure that refuses to move. A dresser recalled in May before anyone was hurt, then sold anyway through four companies in four states. An Alaska ballot with the same name on it twice.And a man in 1859 they called Crazy Drake, a roundabout in England where the graves were supposed to be gone, and a moon that slides into the earth's shadow and stops just short.Art Sterling. The news, straight down the middle.

A small quake in the Himalayas shook loose something much bigger, and the valley below had only minutes.South Korea, the country the world called a cautionary tale, released a figure this morning that has now held for two full years.Canada matches our tariffs dollar for dollar, and its prime minister admits a cost most leaders wouldn't say aloud. In China, an earthquake alert told millions of people one thing before the machine changed its mind.Inflation is stuck, but a second number in the same report says more about how Americans feel. Bill Gates, after forty years of optimism, asks for something nobody expected. A sprout outbreak with an unusual twist. A hundred and fifty million dollars finished off the Oregon coast, still missing one thing. Nebraska farmers and the Sierra Club in the same firehouse. Fairfax County's crossing guards, two days into the school year. Sixty-five Michigan districts buying something together.And a song Dolly Parton sealed in a box in 2015, not to be opened until 2045 — along with the one practical thing she put in there beside it.Art Sterling. The news, straight down the middle.

A village empties overnight in France, Australia rewrites its own charts, Texas loses fifty thousand acres, and California looks up.

China’s latest journey to the Moon never leaves the ground. A machine does something that should make the fastest humans look twice. And after nine long years, a telephone rings with news nobody expected.Plus: dangerous weather, a nationwide food warning, an old American witness getting a second chance, MrBeast versus 100 state troopers, a blue celebrity hiding in the Virginia woods… and one very unusual competition in Germany.The Sterling Report — Monday, August 24, 2026.

The Pacific may be winding up the strongest El Niño on record — enough to make next year the hottest ever. Sri Lanka's trucking water to the leopards. China turns a rocket launch into a beach party. The New York Times loses a libel case for the first time in fifty years. Airbus meets the one thing it can't fly over. A tornado hits a packed Long Island beach. IndyCars take the National Mall. Wild horses run from the helicopters. Gary, Indiana goes two weeks dark. A donkey named Freddy. A star that outshines its galaxy. And a 120-foot fall at Glacier, and the one who happened to be looking. Friday, August 21, 2026.

A farm boy borrowed more than any company on Earth and built an empire — and this week a court decided his fate. Brazil's satellites run the numbers on the Amazon. A stone in the sand may answer a 139-year-old riddle. The old Almanac sees the winter coming. America's biggest store comes up short. New York's rent-free grocery stores have the corner grocers afraid. A barefoot thief takes a little farm's only van. Something new hits the Moon. And in Portland, a father turns his son's drawing into something you can ride. The Sterling Report for Thursday, August 20, 2026.

The driest desert on Earth drowns in a single afternoon. Afghanistan's best grape harvest in years has nowhere to go. Gold jumps on Wall Street — and it isn't good news. A tumbleweed becomes a government problem. Four hundred guinea pigs, and the woman who can't quit them. A Rhode Island road buried in squid. A Texas calf loose in a Walmart. And in Cairo, a blind young man builds something that lets his blind sister take in a safari. The Sterling Report for Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

Heat and violent storms divide the country. A letter from a mother helps decide one of the most important votes in American history. A runaway snow monkey returns home, the World’s Ugliest Dog reveals a beautiful second act, and a rare sea turtle completes an extraordinary journey across the Atlantic.

On Indonesia’s Independence Day, quake survivors stay out of houses left standing. Belgium’s century fire meets a change in the weather. Italy’s Po River keeps dropping.Indiana reckons with a record flood that’s still on the move. Lala leaves Hawaii. Something new watches the Western ridgelines.A fisherman off Washington lands a catch that doesn’t belong there. A bear lets itself into a Kentucky kitchen. And a diver goes into a flooded Mexican cave and doesn’t come back out — for fifteen days.Art Sterling. Weekdays.

Record rain turns Tokyo’s Narita airport into a shelter for seven thousand travelers. Serbia’s drought drops the Danube low enough to raise sunken Nazi warships from 1944. In Panama, seabirds fly north ahead of a strong El Niño — before the forecasters call it. At home: nineteen million eggs recalled at the FDA’s highest level, a record stingray surge off Southern California, and retail sales falling as the American shopper pulls back. Then the calves at Chili’s, Count Binface’s run for Parliament, an eighteen-year-old who found nine million in gold and gave it back, and the nine-year-old who built a museum. Art Sterling, weekdays.

Taiwan slows its own internet to a crawl — on purpose. A Russian ghost ship bleeds oil across a whale sanctuary off Oman. Thailand bans the shotgun raffle.A derecho tears across the Midwest. A two-dollar ticket takes a billion.It took an army to move the avocados. A drought in Rome hands back a two-thousand-year-old bridge. And two goats board a city bus in Portland, fare status unknown.Art Sterling. Weekdays.

Tonight the moon crosses Europe — first eclipse there in 27 years.A teacher saved a house by refusing to hang up the phone.A boy pulled a piranha out of a Philadelphia lake.And two sisters found out a childhood joke was true.Stand by for news. 🎙️

In Colombia this morning, they are digging with their hands.A typhoon crossed six thousand miles and still reached Beijing.A man asked his AI for a better gym spot. He never said how. It found a stranger in the way — and removed them.Stand by for news. 🎙️

Colombia came apart this morning, and the reason it wasn’t far worse is a number sixty miles under the ground.A man who had the job seventy-two hours.One word in an FDA advisory doing more work than it can hold.Lake Mead beat its own record by inches, and held it two hours.A Texas barn, and the goose that would not shut up.And on a cliff in Queensland, four men who could have walked down at any minute.Art Sterling. Weekdays.

Three signatures in the holy city. A boy with his grandfather’s pistol. Ninety seconds of darkness in a room in Manchester, and the trains are still wrong two days later.Jobs went missing in July, and the number that fell is the one that should worry you.A nurse on a Montana mountain, ten miles from the truck, doing arithmetic.A parcel forty years in the mail.Ninety thousand ducks, a river, and a young woman from Clarendon Hills who did not need a whole sentence.A man in Peabody, Massachusetts, who you could hear before you could see.And for what it’s worth: two words on a receipt, one wastebasket, and six tons of garbage.Art Sterling. Weekdays.

The doctors in Bunia walked out this morning. Three months without pay, in the worst Ebola outbreak Congo has ever had — and the money is sitting there, waiting on a clerk to verify a list.Also today: a drone and an explosive beside a German runway. Twenty-eight million Americans under a flood watch. A ninety-seven-year-old on the top wing of an airplane. A professor who broke a three-hundred-year-old record and then got beaten by his little brother.And a bartender in Michigan, thirty days out of a CPR class.This is Art Sterling. Have a Great Day.

A river gives back what it swallowed eighty-two years ago. A man who never won an election wins by one vote in a hundred. Spain’s fires from orbit. Spokane counts what it lost. And a hundred and fifty-one years after Charles Darwin made a claim he couldn’t prove, somebody finally settled it.This is Art Sterling. Have a Great Day.

Today’s Sterling Report covers the return of Middle East negotiations, dangerous heat across much of America, Europe’s growing immigration debate, cooling inflation, Spider-Man’s record-breaking debut, a remarkable helicopter horse rescue, and one unforgettable act of generosity from a Wisconsin roadside.

Spain struggles with a massive migrant surge in Ceuta, France stabilizes a destructive wildfire, Amazon and Apple send markets in opposite directions, dangerous heat grips much of the United States, and an incredible 150-year-overdue library book is finally returned.

Southern Japan continues searching through earthquake wreckage as wildfires spread across France and Spain. China shuts down popular artificial-companion services, Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions before Congress, inflation cools slightly, and New England faces another day of flooding. Page Four brings the unusual OnlyMarms campaign and Libby Downey’s remarkable decision to attend law school at eighty-eight.

Southern Japan counts the dead after a powerful earthquake. Anthony Fauci sits before a Senate committee and refuses to answer. Heat grips West Texas and New Mexico. New York tracks a Legionnaires’ outbreak. And in rural Texas, a field of telescopes gives city dwellers back the night sky.

Japan is rattled by a powerful earthquake near Kumamoto. Anthony Fauci’s diary opens ahead of a committee hearing. And one sailor, adrift in the Pacific with no mast, no fuel, and no phone, survives thirty days at sea.This is The Sterling Report for Tuesday, July 28th, 2026.Stand by… for news.

Today on The Sterling Report: historic evacuations in Europe, fire danger in the American West, tragedy in Seattle and Michigan, a Hollywood return, a circus elephant’s quiet retirement, and a young Ojibwe boy building something small enough to sit on a shoulder… but big enough to carry a language.

On this edition of The Sterling Report: Hurricane Fausto heads across the Pacific, orcas sink another yacht off Spain, West Virginia reels from flash flooding, and a rare Amur leopard escapes from a South Carolina zoo.Plus: Japan builds a human refrigerator, Alberta battles giant goldfish, Ohio has a pickle spill, and one paralyzed man feels his dog’s fur again after a breakthrough medical procedure.

Attacks in the Red Sea send oil above one hundred dollars as Congress weighs presidential war powers and moves against lawmakers trading stocks. Tropical Storm Bertha prepares for a rare second landfall, scientists confirm a major discovery beyond our solar system, and William Shatner reveals the private struggle behind his surprising new chapter.

The Sterling Report for July 22 follows the continuing conflict in the Middle East, political changes abroad and in Washington, Tropical Storm Bertha’s impact along the Gulf Coast, new discoveries in science and AI, and a collection of remarkable stories that remind us why the human spirit still makes the best headlines.

Global conflict, major U.S. developments, dangerous weather, remarkable records, inspiring rescues, and one unforgettable story of courage—today’s Sterling Report brings the day’s biggest stories together with Art Sterling’s signature storytelling style. Join us for another edition of news that informs, surprises, and leaves you with a little hope.

Today’s Sterling Report looks beyond the headlines with international developments, consumer news, remarkable human-interest stories, and a reminder that the smallest acts of service are often the most memorable.

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.