2026

In 1980, Paul Newman and his friend A.E. Hotchner were not setting out to build a food company. They were making salad dressing at home and handing bottles to friends as Christmas presents. The dressing proved popular enough that people began asking where they could get more. Two years later, the experiment became Newman’s Own,…

In 2006, a group of elite athletes who had given their time, energy, and resources to charitable causes began a conversation that led to Athletes for Hope. Boxer Muhammad Ali was among them. They noticed that many of their fellow athletes wanted to make a difference in the world but did not know where to…

The naval weapons station opened in 1944 as a munitions storage facility and fell out of use in 1999 The US Navy has approved an agreement that clears the way for the redevelopment of about 2,422 acres at the former Concord Naval Weapons Station in California. The agreement allows the City of Concord and master…

For 18 years, researchers kept large herbivores out of fenced plots in a Kenyan savanna to study what happened to the trees in their absence. During that period, tree cover increased rapidly, trees became taller, and tree numbers rose. The fences were removed in 2017, allowing elephants, giraffes and other large herbivores to return to…

Twitch streamer Reggie, also known as Lil Rodney Son, became emotional during a livestream on September 27, 2026, as he spoke about painful experiences from his childhood. He accused his brother, James Mack, of sexually abusing him when he was young and said the experience affected how he saw himself. Reggie also brought up fellow…