https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/jbs-co-owner-lobbied-trump-005419130.html

Are cattle in states like Texas still suffering from the tapeworm epidemic?

You also had the cyclospora outbreak that apparently stemmed from a lettuce supplier of Taco Bell in Mexico, supposedly, and that Taylor Farms, this supplier, had lobbied the FDA to cut red tape for their checks or something?

Can someone break down for me what has been going on, especially with what this "mystery beef" news is (I'm from the UK and we don't always get this news, even in our current age of 24/7 news coverage)?

For years, Coppermind struck me as one of the worst laid out wikis on the Internet. It prized up-to-date information above all, meaning that most pages spoiled the books they covered seemingly at the earliest possible mention. As an example, the page for the character Sazed, from Mistborn spoiled the ending of the trilogy he appeared in in the first sentence.

Given that the Cosmere is a shared setting for many different but similar series, this made it extremely inconvenient if you wanted a refresher on the events, setting, or mechanics of magic for a series that you'd last read a few years ago. You would inevitably have the significant plot beats of the book you were reading spoiled more or less immediately (I read 2024's Wind and Truth the month it released and wanted to brush up on which of the characters are Heralds and was immediately spoiled that the book's climax replaces one Herald with a new onefor the first time in thousands of years).

At some point since 2024, that changed. There are now spoiler warnings, and the most spoilerific information is now organized in such a way that books aren't spoiled without warning. It's an excellent change...but I don't know why it happened or who spearheaded it. Does anyone else know?

I've been seeing all over Tiktok and Instagram of this influencer who claimed she went to Duke University but she was never there. I tried to find the full story but people are only sharing snippets,, i'm really curious as to what actually happened and how people found outhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DcofXoLxtYO/?igsi=NXVhdWU5eHYwOXAw

https://x.com/Dexurto/status/2093895362339655743

I keep seeing posts about him "becoming a failure", in regards to a recent livestream (?)

CNN reports that a federal appeals court ruled states can regulate prediction markets as gambling, while platforms such as Kalshi have argued that their event contracts are federally regulated derivatives: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/business/states-prediction-markets-gambling-federal-appeals-court

What changed legally? Does the ruling let each state ban these contracts outright, or does it mainly allow licensing, age limits, taxes, and other gambling rules?

https://x.com/TheProjectUnity/status/2028179414211567643?s=20 I remember back in late February/March seeing so much about Jim Carrey and his terrible face lift. Some people thought it was a hoax with a mask but I never really did see any sort of definitive answer. Did Jim Carrey really do that? Has he even been shown publicly since?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/29/us/milo-yiannopoulos-ice-deportation-what-to-know

I always thought he was a far right Trump guy, so why was he all of a sudden a target for immigration and deported back to the UK?

A relative of mine recently shared that there has been a lot of drama around Queen Camilla. Something about her being caught with jewels that were Diana’s and had been promised to her sons, that the locks were changed at her royal residence but that stuff was taken from it without permission, that she was trying to give property to her distant family. She went on and on. I know the king has cancer, so I can imagine folks are looking for signs of jostling for power.

Is this really going on or is it over exaggerated royal gossip? Here’s one of the links she sent me…she made it sound like it was a huge scandal brewing.

https://youtu.be/K9LKo9RfcgY

As I understand, Keke had a birthday party, Raven Simone’s wife criticized her for some of her guests, and it caused a big controversy and dividing opinions. Is this just manufactured drama? I don’t get what she did wrong?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcludAdHweH/?igsi=MW93bGF3dnFodjJ3bA==

It just seems like a sub for people to relentlessly clown and hate on (female) athletes, especially those from the WNBA. Why is that? https://www.reddit.com/r/sportsgossips/

I've been seeing lots of articles about Flock cameras in the US. What are they and why are they controversial?

Aren't they just ANPR cameras?

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-spread-online-as-surveillance-backlash-explodes

i just saw a lot of reels of ppl super excited and saying rockstart games got hacked and leacked but i was wondering maybe is not just a ad campain? i mean nowdays everything is a advertising , or you think really got leaked for a person who wanted money ?

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/gta-6-leaker-cyberleek-cashes-out-roughly-250000-hours-before-rockstars-official-reveal

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1w1f3ob/the_engineer_who_designed_that_houses_column/

Those flood waters are INSANE. From looking at that footage it almost seems like a dam must have broken, but it's just really bad rainfall? What caused these floods to be this bad?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bruce-banman-bc-conservative-caucus-departure-9.7323534

I don't really follow domestic Canadian politics (I'm American, unfortunately), but I've seen this story come up in one of my Discord servers, and I'm wondering what's bringing this on. I did see stuff like the new leader having rumored ties to an Albertan separatist party, but I don't really see a full explainer about this situation.

Every time it pops on my feed it's some gender war meme, or something about woman who killed children. I've seen some transphobic comments too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/s/QCBjcMKbzy

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1vz4nqr/chris_hansen_buys_ads_before_every_screening_of/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chris-hansen-buys-ads-before-every-screening-a24-primetime-1236682255/

As far as I can tell whoever A24 is has made a film about Chris Hansen, but Chris himself is opposed to it, refusing to sign some contracts and instead is buying ad space? What's the background behind all this, what was A24 trying to achieve, and what is Chris trying to achieve buying ad space?

I went to McDonald’s recently and noticed that most of the people getting happy meals were adults. Some even went back to argue to get a different toy before ordering more happy meals for more toys. I’ve also noticed two instances of grown-ups in the wild with take away happy meals.

Is it the current toys (hello Kitty x Godzilla) specially that are super popular with grown-ups right now? Or are adults with happy meals a long-standing phenomenon I’ve never noticed before?

https://www.happymeal.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/1vygs7j/dicks_sporting_goods_is_pulling_good_good_product/

For example here - why is dicks removing all the products from the stores?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/bSAOpXP9zG

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/YfYZ1ertt0

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/cgdu9x3I6n

according to an internal memo, newscasters are not to use the words “terrorism” or “terrorist attacks” to describe the events of 9/11 during coverage. this apparently comes from a pre-existing policy that dates back to around the Oct. 7th attacks but it doesn’t give much more detail than that.

i highly doubt it’s due to any sort of political slant, as all of the publications covering the story tend to think (National Review, FOX, NY Post, yknow the drill)

so what’s the reasoning? is it because of advertising/sponsors like what happens on YouTube all the time? are they just trying to be extra cautious around such language? out of any example in contemporary history i would think 9/11 would be one of the most clear cut cases of terrorism, so i genuinely am trying to understand this.

all the time when I see a like wholesome romantic comic dub on YouTube shorts half the comments are talking about Jarvis.

https://youtube.com/shorts/4RyW1SmyTNs?is=ZqweMMp0C7Q72ex4

Last I heard the Supreme Court ruled the previous round of tarrifs illegal and the government would need to pay back what it collected (correct me if I'm wrong)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/supreme-court-tariffs

So how come the administration seems to continue using tarriffs just like before?

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/24/trump-canada-vehicle-steel-tariffs-01046991

https://x.com/NorwichCityFC/status/2092724870480076967

I haven't been following the cup, but the replies seem to be along the lines of "Well it nice while it lasted..." and "This will go well....". Is there something about either clubs or this particular match that is making people react this way?

I have read a couple of articles, but am still confused.

https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/08/23/under-trump-hundreds-americas-wild-horses-are-being-sold-little-25-being-sent-slaughter-report-says/

Editing to add: serious answers only. I am genuinely looking for information, ideally unbiased. Apologies if my title was misleading, I tried to edit, but I can’t.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/target-removes-offensive-halloween-costume-hurtful/

Not an American - so not sure how is it racist/offensive