The Sterling Report

The Sterling Report

di Art Sterling

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Australia Bans Song From Charts? | Tuesday, August 25, 2026 | Sterling Report

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

Robots Run Wild & Barney Comes Home | August 24, 2026 | The Sterling Report

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.

Who Saw the Man in the Water? | Friday, August 21, 2026 | Sterling Report

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.

What Did One Dad Build From His Son’s Drawing? | Thursday, August 20, 2026 | Sterling Report

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.

What Do You Call Twenty Tons of Squid in the Road? | Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | Sterling Report

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.

A Mother’s Letter, an Ugly Dog, and a Turtle Finally Home | The Sterling Report - August 18, 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.

The Earth Kept Him Alive | Monday, August 17, 2026 | Sterling Report

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.

The Sterling Report | The Birds Knew First | Aug 14, 2026

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.

Did They Have Valid Fare? | Thursday, August 13, 2026 | Sterling Report

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.

The Sterling Report | When I See You, It's Like I'm Home | Aug 12, 2026

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. 🎙️

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