VOL. I · NO. 8579THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 20265¢

THE EDITION

Thursday, August 27, 2026

109 stories filed by the Buffoon Desk.

CULTURE I Fly Economy On A Monthly Basis — Here Are My 12 Favorite Products To Minimize Suffering · via HuffPost

WORLD Russian drones, missiles hit Kyiv Oblast, spark warehouse fire · via NV

CULTURE Best 1-Year GIC Rates In Canada For August 2026 · via Forbes

COURTS Fifth Circuit sides with news aggregator in copyright battle · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Ricky Schroder Posts Tone-Deaf, Inappropriate Dolly Parton Tribute · via HuffPost

WORLD Two Ukrainian soldiers detained for demanding kickback on military procurement contract · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Trump Makes Risky Plea To Voters That Could Blow Up In His Face · via HuffPost

COURTS Ninth Circuit rules California gun dealers must keep surveillance systems · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Oncologists Reveal The Cancer Symptoms People Often Overlook · via HuffPost

WORLD Air raid sirens sound in Kyiv as Russian drones target capital · via NV

WORLD Community programs linked to lower forest loss in Indonesia’s Borneo during COVID-19 · via Mongabay

COURTS OTF Jam testifies against Lil Durk in murder-for-hire trial · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Yes, We Really Do Use All Of These Cheap And Effective Beauty Products — Here's Proof · via HuffPost

WORLD Ukrainian drones strike key chemical plant and Ozon warehouse in Bashkortostan - video · via NV

CULTURE 12 Trendy Mary Jane Sneakers That Prove You Don't Have To Sacrifice Comfort For Style · via HuffPost

WORLD The ‘Stability-Instability Paradox’ Comes for Markets · via Foreign Policy

WORLD Five Russian drones violate Moldovan airspace during massive strike on Ukraine · via NV

CULTURE 'These Tights Have Changed My Life!': Reviewers Can't Stop Raving About These Flesh-Hued Tights · via HuffPost

WORLD The World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Comes to Small-Town Ontario | The Walrus · via The Walrus

CULTURE A Fire Broke Out Midair On An American Airlines Flight — And This Common Device Was To Blame · via HuffPost

COURTS Judge signals support of attorney fees request in $425 million Google privacy suit · via Courthouse News

WORLD Why Is Anti-Indigenous Racism on the Rise? | The Walrus · via The Walrus

WORLD VTB Bank stock sinks below nominal value amid Ukrainian strikes on Wildberries · via NV

CULTURE Doctors Say This Type Of Poop Says A Lot About Your Digestion · via HuffPost

COURTS Chinese tech giant challenges Department of Defense designation · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Democrats go on the offense, Republicans play defense after Hope Florida grand jury report leak · via Florida Phoenix

COURTS Ex-Abercrombie CEO deemed fit for sex trafficking trial in January · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Fringe candidates’ lawyer cries ‘conspiracy’ as Clean Elections fraud probe barrels ahead · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Cook Political Report shifts FL gubernatorial race from ‘solid’ to ‘likely’ Republican · via Florida Phoenix

COURTS Stars and Stripes journalists accuse Pentagon of retaliatory terminations · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE AG Mayes to examine Flock surveillance cameras and Arizonans’ privacy rights · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Gun policy emerges as an early flashpoint in Florida governor’s race · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector · via Mongabay

COURTS Judge grills feds over bid to reinstall Trump’s name to Kennedy Center · via Courthouse News

COURTS States sue Trump over obstacles to family planning grants · via Courthouse News

COURTS Lyft and the ADA · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE New House committee to examine signature verification sampling process for ballot initiatives · via Michigan Advance

COURTS The Game loses sexual assault appeal · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Canadian tariffs to further raise prices, a top concern for voters · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna · via Mongabay

COURTS Trump brings four more states into battle over tuition breaks for immigrants · via Courthouse News

CULTURE For some fans, Dolly Parton was more than a musical idol – she was a spiritual icon · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE President Trump Delivers for Texas: Lower Taxes, Border Security, and Jobs Coming Home · via White House

WHITE HOUSE US Justice Department challenges 4 more states over in-state tuition for immigrants · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Mayes calls Trump lawsuit against in-state tuition for immigrant students ‘baseless’ · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Postal Service pushes ahead on Trump order limiting vote-by-mail · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Penza police call reports of forced recruitment raids ‘false’ but concede some men may have posed as officers · via Meduza

WORLD 13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Housing, trucking, tax credits: Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda has a wide reach · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD Ukraine resumes missile-interception counts after Zelensky says some Patriots arrived from ‘Coalition of the Willing’ allies · via Meduza

WORLD Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary) · via Mongabay

COURTS Trump says US will rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ amid trade war with Canada · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE NEVER SURRENDER: Karoline Leavitt’s Historic Tenure as White House Press Secretary · via White House

COURTS Judge approves Bank of America’s $72 million settlement with Epstein victims · via Courthouse News

COURTS UK asylum claims fall 21% as government moves to curb backlog · via Courthouse News

CULTURE US-Canada trade war deepens as Trump revives Depression-era trade tool – what’s at stake for consumers and the midterms · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Pediatric group wins early legal battle against DeSantis administration and its Medicaid rates · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD iStories investigation shows how Russia recruits soldiers for its war against Ukraine: private firms, targeted Telegram ads, and phone numbers bought for as little as 12 cents apiece · via Meduza

WORLD More than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites may face climate risks, new data shows · via Mongabay

COURTS European soccer federation eyes criminal case against FIFA boss · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America · via White House

COURTS Clashes in Spain’s Ceuta month after mass migrant influx · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Abortion initiative group sues Idaho state officials over ‘misleading’ ballot language · via Stateline

WORLD One Russian region’s ban on sharing information about Ukrainian drone strikes is so vague that officials just brought charges against a local news outlet for paraphrasing the governor · via Meduza

CULTURE Commentary: Dolly Gave Appalachian Women Permission to Reach Beyond the Stereotypes · via Daily Yonder

WORLD ‘Devastating’ rush for critical minerals has little to do with green energy: Report · via Mongabay

COURTS Israeli minister sets out plan to ‘Judaize’ Arab population centers · via Courthouse News

COURTS Russia dismisses as ‘scare stories’ US reports about attacking NATO · via Courthouse News

WORLD ‘Congratulations. Thank you so much for your son,’ says Sochi’s mayor, decorating the parents of a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine · via Meduza

WORLD Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas · via Mongabay

COURTS Death toll rises, rescuers search for 1,400 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans could be removed from the mail voting list in 2027 · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Trump has widened scope of anti-immigrant policy in second term · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Four EU countries push Brussels to reopen the frozen Russian assets debate · via Meduza

WORLD US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act · via Mongabay

COURTS HRW slams ‘ruthless’ Taliban as new law bans protest · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Why the US-Canada trade war could change how American farmers grow their crops for years · via The Conversation

CULTURE Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Costly Attack Submarine Maintenance Challenges · via GAO

CULTURE NASA is gearing up to launch its next flagship space telescope – combining spy technology with sophisticated infrared detectors · via The Conversation

CULTURE USS Abraham Lincoln’s record deployment highlights shortfalls of US military readiness · via The Conversation

CULTURE ‘Mad honey’ that can stop your heart is now being sold online worldwide · via The Conversation

CULTURE Dementia care navigators help Coloradans get the support they need · via The Conversation

WORLD Crews have spent a week battling a wildfire in the mountains near Yalta. It broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack, though occupation officials won’t say what caused it. · via Meduza

CULTURE I surveyed workers to see if AI had caused job losses and was surprised by the findings · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK National Security Space: DOD Has Opportunities to Improve Its Use of Commercial Data and Related Services · via GAO

WORLD Ukraine is now striking warehouses belonging to another Russian online marketplace — Ozon. Here’s every facility targeted so far. · via Meduza

CULTURE Why Democrats are amplifying corruption talk: A historical strategy for parties out of power · via The Conversation

WORLD Kremlin says Russia doesn’t need military escalation because its army is ‘advancing anyway’ · via Meduza

WORLD In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Why on Earth are so many data centers being built? · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists · via Mongabay

WORLD The day after the central Nepal flood · via Global Voices

WHITE HOUSE Learning to Burn · via Stateline

CULTURE Earlier Lifeline for Rural Hospitals Faces Test Under ‘Big Beautiful’ Law · via Daily Yonder

WHITE HOUSE Garfield Township puts a 1-year ban on data centers, cryptocurrency mining · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Photo essay: Communities embrace fire to protect against out-of-control blazes · via Stateline

WORLD Russia is in the grip of a second fuel crisis. Meduza analyzed nearly half a million crowdsourced reports to find out how bad it really is. · via Meduza

CULTURE Oklahoma Public Libraries Become Broadband Access Hubs · via Daily Yonder

WORLD On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US · via Grist

WORLD ‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem · via Grist

WORLD A ‘leading’ Chinese miner of Mozambique’s heavy sands linked to environmental destruction · via Mongabay

WORLD The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it · via Grist

WORLD Wildberries CEO Tatyana Kim still tops Forbes’ list of Russia’s richest women, despite losing $2 billion amid Ukrainian strikes on the company’s warehouses · via Meduza

WORLD A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves · via Mongabay

WORLD How Buryat fashion designer Oksana Alkhunsaeva stitched her life back together in Russia · via Global Voices

WORLD China’s Tianmu Mountain reserve tackles modern conservation amid religious tradition · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Florida pushes publishers to play down climate change in textbooks · via Florida Phoenix

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