Sunday, August 16, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1954, the first issue of Sports Illustrated hit the newsstands, featuring a striking cover photo of Milwaukee Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews.

For decades, Parade magazine was a must-read part of Sunday newspapers everywhere, an insert that provided everything from celebrity news to the All-America High School Football Team. As we learn in today’s Whatever Happened To… section, the magazine eventually faded away as newspaper subscriptions dwindled.

In case you missed it, this week on The Flyover Podcast, Ayla shared what scientists said about when you should actually be eating dinner. Scientists say your dinnertime could be shaping your blood sugar, your cravings, and even your heart health, and the growing field of chrononutrition finds that eating at the wrong hour can throw off the body's internal clock. Poorer blood sugar control. Stronger cravings the next day. Even a higher risk of heart disease. Ayla explained what dinnertime is actually right for you, so before you plan tonight's meal, find out whether your schedule is working for you or against you. Tune in here!

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Violent Crime Posts Record One-Year Drop

Violent crime in the U.S. posted its largest one-year drop on record in 2025, with murders down 18.1%, robberies down 18.5%, and aggravated assaults down 7.2%, according to the FBI's annual report released on Friday.

The homicide rate of 4.1 per 100,000 people is tied with 1955 and 1956 as the lowest since 1900.

President Trump credited his administration's crime-fighting policies, including a crackdown on criminal migrants, fewer illegal border crossings, and National Guard deployments to cities like Washington, D.C.

Early data show declines continuing through the first half of 2026, pointing to another historic low.

Trump Makes Claim on Strait of Hormuz

President Trump claimed on Friday that he will soon make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory.

Trump did not elaborate on how he would make the critical shipping lane a U.S. territory, considering that Iran and Oman share jurisdiction.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday that the waterway “cannot be seized with a tweet, nor with an aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor through an election speech.”

With the price of a gallon of ⁠gasoline up 29% from a year earlier, Trump told a New York audience that paying "a tiny little bit more for your gasoline" is worth the cost of ensuring "a very evil country" could not have a nuclear ‌weapon.

Professor in Plagiarism Scandal Found Dead

Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the center of a plagiarism scandal, was found dead in London on Friday, one week after the university announced an investigation into his academic and professional qualifications.

Metropolitan police said the death was “unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious.”

Arday's appointment in 2023 received massive media attention, much of it celebrating the hiring of the youngest black professor at the university. But his story came under recent scrutiny, including claims that he plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. dissertation and that he once ran 30 marathons in 35 days to raise money for charity.

His death prompted outcries that the allegations were motivated by racism as well as hostility toward DEI policies at universities and other institutions.

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The following stories are featured exclusively on The Flyover Podcast—a daily show that gives you the most important headlines in under 15 minutes, straight from the heart of the country. Clicking the link will take you directly to these stories:

➤ College costs outpaced wages and left families scrambling to cover the bill. (Hear More)

➤ Teen trouble prompted one New Jersey town to tighten its summer rules. (Listen Now)

➤ A Supreme Court justice said conservatives faced an unexpected barrier on college campuses. (Podcast Available)

➤ NASCAR will not return to Rockingham Speedway in 2027 after uncertainty surrounding the facility brought the track’s two-year revival to a halt. (More)

➤ Seattle Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon agreed to a four-year, $132 million extension with more than $101 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history. (More)

➤ Fenway Sports Group agreed to sell a minority stake in Liverpool FC, reportedly about 30%, to 1892 Holdings, an investment group backed in part by Jeff Bezos. (More)

➤ The U.S. flag football team suffered its first defeat in 14 years, falling 38-32 to former Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa and American Samoa at the 2026 World Flag tournament. (More)

➤ British cyclist Finlay Tarling, 19, died Friday after a non-race vehicle reportedly traveling in the opposite direction struck him during the Volta a Portugal’s eighth stage. (More)

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▲	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	26,729.16	0.18%
▲	SPX S&P 500	7,785.76	0.44%
▼	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	53,732.41	-0.63%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$62,975.59	-2.88%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,380.40	1.02%
▲	SILVER Per Ounce	$64.99	1.24%
▲	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$82.40	5.08%

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➤ Nvidia disclosed on Friday that its stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter. SpaceX said it will exclusively use Nvidia's AI chips in its data centers. (More)

➤ New delinquencies for auto loans and mortgages rose slightly, while delinquencies for credit cards remain elevated, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (More)

➤ Tyson Foods will close two facilities and is pursuing the sale of a third as it makes "strategic changes" to its beef business amid U.S. cattle shortages. (More)

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➤ Your dinnertime could be shaping your blood sugar, your cravings, and even your heart health, and scientists say most people are eating at the wrong hour. So which dinnertime actually works with your body's internal clock instead of against it? (Podcast Available)

➤ A 162-year-old bottle of Guinness recovered from a shipwreck off England’s coast has scientists exploring whether they can recreate the historic brew. (See Bottle)

➤ An Arkansas high school football player practiced nearly an hour with a 2-foot cottonmouth hidden inside his helmet, escaping a bite before switching helmets and returning to practice. (See Snake)

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➤ Multiple shooters wounded five people outside a Virginia State University residence hall early on Saturday, leaving one in critical condition and prompting a temporary campus lockdown, police said. (More)

➤ A Bronx man faces hate crime charges after police said he disrupted Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, struck a 63-year-old woman, damaged property, and attacked a security worker. (More)

➤ Lala strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Saturday, threatening Hawaii’s Big Island with its first direct hurricane strike in 155 years, flooding rains, strong winds, and mudslides. (More)

➤ A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Flores Island on Friday, killing at least 47 people, damaging hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides, and prompting an initial tsunami warning. (See Damage)

➤ The FDA authorized Simparica TRIO to treat New World screwworm infestations in dogs as the flesh-eating parasite spreads along the U.S.-Mexico border, with 45 cases confirmed. (More)

➤ A Tennessee family’s drive took a wild turn when an estimated 5-foot gray rat snake slithered from beneath the hood and jumped from the moving car before they stopped. (See Slither)

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Whatever happened to Parade Magazine?

If you grew up in a household that got the Sunday paper, you knew Parade. It was right there between the comics and the coupons, a slim, glossy magazine you never subscribed to but never missed. And for decades, it was one of the most widely read publications.

Marshall Field III, the department store heir, launched Parade in 1941 as a picture-heavy Sunday supplement for his Chicago Sun and a handful of other papers. By the late 1980s, it was tucked inside more than 330 newspapers, boasting a circulation north of 35 million and a readership that topped 80 million. Here's a gallery of Parade’s own favorite covers.

Its features became Sunday morning rituals. Walter Scott's Personality Parade, the celebrity Q&A column on the inside cover, was written for 33 years by Lloyd Shearer under that pen name, and was arguably the most widely read column in America.

The annual What People Earn issue, which ran for four decades, let you peek at your neighbor's salary alongside Hollywood's. And the Parade All-America High School Football Team, launched in 1963, proved uncannily prophetic—its alumni include Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, and 14 future Heisman Trophy winners.

Parade even nudged history. In 1960, editor Jess Gorkin published an open letter to President Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, urging a direct crisis phone link, asking, "Must a world be lost for want of a telephone call?" After the Cuban Missile Crisis exposed just how dangerously slow superpower communication was, the Washington-Moscow hotline became a reality in 1963.

But Parade's reach was entirely a function of Sunday newspaper subscriptions, and when those started their long decline, the magazine went with them. Condé Nast parent Advance Publications sold Parade in 2014. The Arena Group picked it up in 2022 and killed the print edition months later. The last physical copy hit doorsteps on Nov. 13, 2022. A brief run as an e-magazine ended in December 2023.

Today Parade lives on as a website and email newsletter featuring recipes, listicles, and celebrity slideshows. The name is the same. Everything else that made it a Sunday morning institution is gone.

Were you a regular reader of Parade, and did you have a favorite feature? Let us know your thoughts by replying to this email.

What’s “galumphing”? Scientists borrowed the term from Lewis Carroll’s famous 1871 poem Jabberwocky to describe how seals wriggle their bodies across land. Now enjoy this seal “galumphing” while keeping its flippers out of the sand.

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"I didn't expect this. I had a different view of what my life was going to be, but this is what it is now. You make all these plans, and you have all these ideas of what it's all going to be like, and then it's…not."

Actress Nicole Kidman, on life after her divorce from country music star Keith Urban earlier this year.