The Sterling Report

On today’s Sterling Report: a disrupted attack plot targeting the White House UFC event, a deadly B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base, and a possible U.S.-Iran signing ceremony. Plus: Pizza Hut is sold, gold and silver prices move, Royal Ascot hats take over the grandstand, Merlin the duck becomes a World Cup favorite, new UFO files include a potato-shaped object, Bridgeport girls prepare to laun...

On today’s Sterling Report: the G7 summit opens in France, Russia strikes Ukraine, Britain targets social media use by children under sixteen, and Rio investigates a deadly helicopter collision. Plus: SpaceX continues moving after Friday’s market debut, gold and silver prices, UFC Freedom 250 on the White House grounds, a seven-hour cliff rescue in San Francisco, the world’s largest soccer ball in...

In this Sterling Special Report, Art Sterling traces the long and surprising history of fighters in the White House — from Andrew Jackson’s duels and George Washington’s wrestling days, to Abraham Lincoln’s prairie strength, Theodore Roosevelt’s boxing and judo in the White House basement, and Donald Trump’s decades-long connection to boxing, wrestling, and the fight game. With a UFC octagon plann...

Art Sterling covers the World Cup’s return to American soil, Canada’s first home World Cup match, the revival of ancient golden sea silk, SpaceX’s historic market debut, a Stanford cartilage breakthrough, the UFC coming to the White House lawn, a loose skunk in Wisconsin, Scottish fans running bars dry, and George Mason’s forgotten stand for the rights Americans still live under.

Art Sterling covers the day’s sharp turns and strange corners: the World Cup begins, James Webb finds a planet with two different skies, Canada weighs social media restrictions for young users, the Knicks make history, NASA heads to the World Cup Fan Festival, eight goats test the patience of Ohio deputies, and a dog named Bruce survives a drift into the North Sea.

Wednesday’s Sterling Report covers earthquake recovery in the southern Philippines, global economic talks, EU-South Korea digital trade, a Somali World Cup referee’s homecoming, a major U.S. immigration enforcement bill, national park history disputes, an Ebola monitoring case ending safely, World Cup hydration breaks, a deep whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, China’s neutrino detector, World Wa...

A U.S. Army Apache goes down near the Strait of Hormuz, two aviators are rescued by a Navy drone boat, oil traders watch the Middle East, and economists expect interest rates to stay steady. Plus: state primaries, a surveillance deadline in Congress, river cleanup ahead of the 2028 Olympics, a California condor’s historic return to Oregon, ancient discoveries in Scotland and Germany, rescued dogs,...

On today’s Sterling Report, Monday delivers jittery markets, rough June weather, masked wrestlers promoting reading, Australia’s massive illegal cockroach seizure, a surprise box office win, Broadway’s Tony Awards, Christian Eriksen’s frightening collapse and hopeful update, and a South London hospice reunion with a twist almost too beautiful to believe.

There was a time when going to the movies felt like entering a little temple on Main Street. You sat down in the dark, and the movie began. But somewhere between the red carpet and the quarterly report, Hollywood began to mistake recognition for wonder. Reboots replaced risk. Nostalgia became a business plan. Franchises stopped earning loyalty and started demanding it. In this Sterling Special Rep...

A drone drifts into a NATO port. Pirates surface from the sea floor. Fire tornadoes may become an oil-spill tool. And in California, three mule deer cross a bridge built not for cars, but for them. Art Sterling brings the day’s serious, strange, and hopeful stories together.

A missing Everest guide, a mountain rescue, monsoon rains, war powers, strange science, Notre Dame’s hidden layers, rare otter pups, and a Taiwanese snail race — today’s Sterling Report follows the stories that make the day serious, strange, and worth hearing.

Art Sterling follows the day’s serious and strange stories: PewDiePie’s Odysseus self-hosted AI workspace, Amazon overtaking Walmart on the Fortune 500, the hidden power and water costs of AI data centers, new species discovered on Angola’s Lisima plateau, Oamaru’s steampunk festival, humanoid robots in Tokyo, WKRP becoming real radio in Cincinnati, Bryce Harper’s unusual toothbrushing routine, an...

Today on The Sterling Report: El Niño may be returning, Britain’s oldest known rock art emerges from a Welsh cave, Uber’s lost-and-found box tells on America, and NASA explains the boom that shook parts of New England. Plus, a Long Island village has no mayoral candidates, America prepares for its 250th birthday, a Missouri man finds a $50,000 lottery ticket in his truck, and a Sydney concert is s...

In this Sterling Special Report, Art Sterling examines the rise of flattering artificial intelligence, the growing use of chatbots for emotional advice, China’s rapid push in the global AI race, and the need for temperance in the age of powerful machines. A human-centered report on technology, truth, and the future worth keeping.

Art Sterling follows the strange and tender stories off the main road: Shuetsu Sato’s duct-tape signs in Tokyo, an electric toilet-paper haul in Australia, Arcata’s Kinetic Grand Championship, a robin nest stopping a Ford F-250 in Olathe, a blue whale skeleton at Oregon State’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, hope for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, and Joe Symonds, the 87-year-old DoorDash driver whos...

Art Sterling follows the stories hiding in plain sight: a golden yak from folklore, a sea slug smaller than sesame, a hidden chamber beneath Lincoln, a chatbot caution, a record made of paper cups, and the Chrysler Building’s secret race for the sky.

Art Sterling covers a Roman villa discovery in northern France, early heat across Western Europe, a Minnesota Medicaid fraud case, the death of Clarence B. Jones, the Garden Grove chemical tank scare, plans for a UFC event on the White House South Lawn, Miles Davis’s 100th birthday, and the near-eradication of Guinea worm disease.

Art Sterling marks Memorial Day with a look at American military cemeteries around the world, the Dutch families who adopt graves at Margraten, the origins of Decoration Day, unsettled holiday weather, public tours at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, 108-year-old Susan Young Browne renewing her license in Delaware, Sausal Creek restoration in Oakland, and the science behind children’s laughter.

Today’s Sterling Report takes the side roads: Norway’s electric flying ferries, hydrogen seeping from ancient Canadian rock, oysters rebuilding a harbor, a million bees on a Tennessee ramp, goats leading rescuers to a buried storm shelter, AI watching for whales, and thousands of trout carried home one silver flash at a time

Today’s Sterling Report follows unusual and uplifting stories from around the world: India’s Rah-Veer Good Samaritan program, Indigenous divers helping control Australia’s sea urchin problem, a medieval notebook found in a German latrine, Singapore’s idea for AI “nutrition labels,” endangered American historic places, severe spring weather, Boston Logan’s remote TSA pilot, Seattle’s Tall Tour, bas...

Today’s Sterling Report looks behind the headlines: an Ebola outbreak moving through central Africa, the human cost of AI automation, villagers helping bring back India’s giant tortoise, SpaceX’s Starship V3 test, hard questions in Washington, a San Diego security guard who protected children, wildfire evacuations near Simi Valley, an old physics mystery, ancient games of chance, modern heirlooms,...

From Iran tensions to a 2,600-year-old chamber in Luxor, from supercomputers to severe storms, today’s report ends with a story about children, illness, and the power of belonging

Art Sterling follows the hidden labor behind the AI boom, a wonderfully odd furniture-building championship in London, Indonesia’s first giant panda cub, severe weather across the central U.S., Richard Glossip’s release on bond, a Florida record fish, declining school enrollment, and a powerful final story about sepsis and listening when the body whispers.

Today’s Sterling Report follows World Cup heat concerns, a rare gold discovery in Norway, a dementia-friendly zoo tour in Berlin, a Florida ocean rescue, and a heartfelt close on aging, caregiving, and the families making room.

Floodwaters rise. Oil moves in the shadows. Washington argues over what goes in your gas tank. And somewhere in America, a 911 call from twenty-two years ago comes back with a cap and gown. Today’s Sterling Report brings the day’s news with warmth, wit, and yesterday’s charm.