The Saturday, August 15, 2026 Edition
Mangione Pleads Guilty, Berkshire Buys Alphabet, and Webb's 'Black Hole Star'
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The number of years since Jif last changed its logo -- the peanut butter brand just unveiled its first rebrand in three decades. Design watchers are calling it a rare case of modernizing a legacy American brand without killing its quirk.
Source: Fast Company
This weekend: The FedEx St. Jude Championship plays its weekend rounds in Memphis, with Scottie Scheffler atop the leaderboard.
This weekend: NFL preseason games play out across the league, the first slate since Friday's round of player discipline.
- 1914The Panama Canal officially opens to ship traffic
- 1945Japan announces its surrender, effectively ending World War II (V-J Day)
- 1947India gains independence from British rule after nearly two centuries
- 1969The Woodstock music festival opens on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York
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