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The Sterling Report

by Art Sterling

Society & Culture

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. 🎙️

They Were Us | The Sterling Report | Tuesday, August 11, 2026

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. 🎙️

Sixty Miles Down - Monday, August 10, 2026

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.

Not Payable | The Sterling Report | Friday, August 7, 2026

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 Sterling Report — Thursday, August 6, 2026

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.

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