VOL. I · NO. 8605TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 20265¢

THE EDITION

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

127 stories filed by the Buffoon Desk.

CULTURE I Bought This Quince Cardigan Years Ago And I Still Wear It Constantly · via HuffPost

WORLD Banks block bail payments for Stolar and Mudra in high-profile corruption probe · via NV

WORLD Lithuania prepares enhanced drone defenses for substation near Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast · via NV

CULTURE These Laundry Detergents Smell So Good, 'I Want This Stuff Slathered All Over My Body And Wardrobe' · via HuffPost

WORLD Russian forces strike major Silpo supermarket logistics hub in Odesa · via NV

WORLD Convicted ex-Belgorod mayor Polezhaev killed in Ukraine war · via NV

COURTS Idaho fights to preserve near-total abortion ban · via Courthouse News

WORLD Russia’s economic downturn will become clear by October, economist predicts · via NV

CULTURE Prince and Princess of Wales walk red carpet with Tom Cruise at Digger premiere · via The Telegraph

WORLD Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking · via Mongabay

COURTS No sanctions for Carvana in artificial stock inflation case · via Courthouse News

WORLD Exclusive: Warehouse rents in western Ukraine triple amid Russian strikes · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Ex-Trump Press Secretary Says He’s ‘Backed Into A Corner’ And Predicts What’s Next · via HuffPost

WORLD Ukraine’s General Staff confirms strikes on Russian oil refineries in Bashkortostan and Samara · via NV

CULTURE More Marriages End This Way Than People Realize. The Hard Part Is Admitting It. · via HuffPost

WORLD Lukashenko disputes Trump’s Belarus potash deal, citing fully contracted supplies · via NV

CULTURE We're Doctors. We're BEGGING Parents To Stop Doing This 1 Habit With Their Kids. · via HuffPost

COURTS Ninth Circuit finds lower court missed the mark in Hawaii firearms regulation case · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Trump DOJ uses case of Utah letter carrier to highlight allegations of voting fraud · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Russia attacks Kyiv with jet-powered Shahed drones in daytime · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Nolan Wells' Family Pushes Back After Grand Jury Finds No Cause For Charges In His July Death · via HuffPost

COURTS North Carolina mail ballot changes challenged · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE GOP’s ‘rubberstamp’ of Trump puts US Senate in play, Dem campaign chair says · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Ukraine hits 300 Russian shadow fleet vessels in 11 weeks · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Conservative Wall Street Journal Heavyweight’s Patience With Trump Finally Snaps · via HuffPost

COURTS Honolulu pushes back on notice requirements before property is set aside as farmland · via Courthouse News

COURTS SCOTUS stays out of thorny surrogacy fight · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Democrats, experts call for revocation of school voucher program under adoption by states · via Michigan Advance

COURTS UK high court denies review for juvenile murderers sentenced as adults · via Courthouse News

COURTS Ninth Circuit affirms conviction of man who stole identity of dead child · via Courthouse News

COURTS HUD asks Ninth Circuit to let it cut funding for LA homeless services agency · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Arizona spends millions on the death penalty. Victims’ families want it spent on cold cases. · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Former VP Kamala Harris stumps with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, highlighting Black maternal health · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Angie Nixon to pay fine and do community service for staging sit-in at DeSantis’ office · via Florida Phoenix

COURTS Rap duo Salt-N-Pepa ask Second Circuit to revive UMG copyright case · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE President Trump Inks Historic Arctic Security Agreement · via White House

COURTS Edison unlikely to escape liability in Eaton Fire lawsuit · via Courthouse News

COURTS DC Circuit sides with minister in battle over Capitol steps protests · via Courthouse News

COURTS Screenwriter says Netflix copied her 2019 screenplay in ‘Apex’ · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE ‘Drive them into hell’: Trump tells UN he’ll make a deal with Iran or ‘annihilate’ it · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Judge suggests Trump’s most recent birthright citizenship orders may require new lawsuit · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Trump is backing a diesel export ban. How much would that do? · via Grist

COURTS Washington voter rolls · via Courthouse News

COURTS Trump backs stronger UK ties with Burnham yet criticizes Chagos deal at UN meeting · via Courthouse News

COURTS Arkansas seeks to kick big pharmacy middlemen out of drugstore business · via Courthouse News

COURTS Southern Illinois man challenges local sign ordinance at Seventh Circuit · via Courthouse News

COURTS Georgia Supreme Court intervenes in lawyers’ solicitation fight · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE False birth control claims are proliferating, survey says · via Stateline

WORLD Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds · via Mongabay

WORLD From north to south, protests sweep across Tunisia: Is change at hand? · via Global Voices

COURTS New York, Maine lead challenge against Trump offshore wind dealings · via Courthouse News

WORLD A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman’s probe into Katie Hobbs is a pay-to-play mess of its own · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Audit into public health contract process sparks outrage from Michigan House Oversight members · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Donalds might retain Joseph Ladapo as surgeon general — Jolly says he’d fire him · via Florida Phoenix

WHITE HOUSE States file new lawsuits against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind · via Stateline

WORLD Trump says talks in NYC with Zelensky will cover Russia–Ukraine negotiations and Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine · via Meduza

WORLD California Tribes receive beach and ancestral village site back from transportation authority · via Mongabay

CULTURE Russia-Ukraine war is accelerating the dangerous race toward fully autonomous drones · via The Conversation

COURTS Eighth Circuit grills Iowa on law regulating healthcare middlemen · via Courthouse News

COURTS San Francisco sues over Truth Social ‘insider trading’ · via Courthouse News

COURTS US signs Greenland defense deal with Denmark · via Courthouse News

WORLD Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust · via Grist

WORLD Can all Russians be held responsible for the war in Ukraine? A heated online debate runs up against international law’s principle of individual responsibility. · via Meduza

WORLD World Rhino Day: What does it take to save a species? · via Mongabay

COURTS Top Spanish court helps clear Catalan leader’s return · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Dana Nessel says she’ll vote for Abdul El-Sayed, ending potential Michigan Democratic Party rift · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Why scientists want your photos of wildlife eating lunch · via Grist

WORLD Trump is expected to press Zelensky to accept a Russia-Ukraine energy truce at their NYC meeting · via Meduza

WORLD Brazil creates four Amazon reserves as plans to pave rainforest highway advance · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE First Lady Melania Trump Unveils New Fostering the Future Together Technology Alliances, International Events, and Membership Expansion · via White House

COURTS Hungary declines to join Kyiv-led regional group · via Courthouse News

COURTS Digital trail of missing Ukrainian children leads to stop at Europe’s human rights court · via Courthouse News

COURTS Arkansas pushes Eighth Circuit to revive Ten Commandments requirement in schools · via Courthouse News

COURTS Iowa newspaper subscriber gets last gasp at lawsuit over 2024 Trump poll · via Courthouse News

COURTS Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of deadly strikes as thousands flee · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE DeSantis’ commerce secretary approved as Pensacola State College president · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget · via Mongabay

COURTS Trump threatens Iran and Cuba at fiery UN speech · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE President Trump at the United Nations: “While Others Have Talked, I Have Acted” · via White House

WORLD Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again? · via Mongabay

CULTURE Lula’s UN address points to two starkly different visions of Brazilian nationalism ahead of crucial election · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF GREENLAND TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT OF 27 APRIL 1951 PURSUANT TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK ON THE DEFENSE OF GREENLAND (1951 DEFENSE AGREEMENT), INCLUDING ALL RELEVANT SUBSEQUENT AGREEMENTS RELATED THERETO · via White House

WHITE HOUSE Fewer students, too many schools: Communities confront closures and consolidations · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Michigan Smart Trade Alliance tracker shows over $26 billion in tariff-driven costs paid statewide · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Photographing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict — Interview with Federico Borella · via Mongabay

COURTS Rwandan doctor faces first UK genocide charges over 1994 killings · via Courthouse News

FACT CHECK Federal Real Property: GSA Should Publicize Accessibility Complaint Process for Its Office Buildings · via GAO

CULTURE How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Tribal Water Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve Federal Assistance · via GAO

COURTS A better way · via Courthouse News

CULTURE No cheery time for election pollsters in run-up to US midterms · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Telecommunications: Better Information Sharing Needed to Ensure Compliance with Foreign-Sourced Equipment Prohibitions · via GAO

WORLD Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk · via Mongabay

COURTS Colorado’s high court won’t review Tina Peters case · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Other presidents have let white-collar criminals dodge financial penalties – but not like Trump · via The Conversation

CULTURE EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs · via The Conversation

CULTURE Game delays for lightning may be annoying, but they save lives – a sports meteorologist explains the risk · via The Conversation

CULTURE It’s OK if managers step in to help their sales staff – but not too much · via The Conversation

CULTURE The SAT has changed since it debuted 100 years ago – but questions remain about its relevance · via The Conversation

CULTURE When your child asks if they’ll be harmed like the people on the news, what do you say? Psychologists provide tips on how to talk about identity · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Most Florida universities fell in national rankings, per U.S. News & World Report · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Drone hits same apartment building outside Moscow for second time. Photos. · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE State officials call for more funding to address chemical plume in Antrim County · via Michigan Advance

CULTURE Study: Rural Hospitals Struggle with Increased Data Demands · via Daily Yonder

WORLD Honoring Jane Goodall’s conservation legacy and combatting misinformation · via Mongabay

WORLD Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo · via Michigan Advance

WORLD A clean energy source is buried under the desert, but it takes water to use it · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE Lindsay Clancy case could spur legislative action on postpartum depression, psychosis · via Stateline

WORLD Hungary’s prime minister opposes plan to build oil storage facility for Ukraine on Hungarian soil · via Meduza

WORLD Technology-facilitated trafficking: How Bangladeshi migrants become victims of recruitment in Cambodia · via Global Voices

WORLD Ukrainian drones attack Samara as fire is reported at Kuybyshev oil refinery, one of the Volga region’s largest · via Meduza

WORLD Russia strikes four Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones. Regional officials say three people were killed in Dnipro, and one may be trapped under rubble. · via Meduza

WORLD Macron says France and U.S. working to halt strikes on infrastructure in Ukraine · via NV

WORLD California high-speed rail cash crisis threatens new cutbacks · via Newsweek

WORLD Drought and state neglect deepen health crisis for Peru’s recently contacted Matsés · via Mongabay

WORLD Ukrainian tennis star Svitolina speaks out on 'neutral' athletes representing Russia and Belarus · via NV

WORLD Russian strikes hit two gas stations on Kyiv–Chop highway in Zhytomyr Oblast · via NV

WORLD Russia plans to produce up to 14,000 Dan-T weapons in 2027, RBC-Ukraine sources say · via NV

WORLD Hunger in Oleshky: About 2,000 people cut off from supplies since may in Russian-occupied city · via NV

WORLD My tenant refused to leave my property. I ended up living in a van · via The Telegraph

WORLD Ex-DM Fedorov says no concrete funding offers yet for potential political project, but 'many' are interested · via NV

WORLD Ukrnafta and ORLEN explore refining Ukrainian crude in Central Europe · via NV

WORLD EU condemns Russian parliamentary elections, rejects voting in occupied territories · via NV

WORLD Drop in Russian ballistic missile use signals winter barrage preparations — Bloomberg · via NV

CULTURE Compare The Best American Express Credit Cards · via Forbes

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