The Friday, August 28, 2026 Edition
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The number of boxes of toilet paper stacked to the ceiling aboard the USS New Orleans that blocked fire-suppression systems and contributed to a $12 million blaze, Navy investigators found. That works out to roughly $120,000 in damage per box.
Source: Stars and Stripes
Today: Play continues at the US Open in New York, with Taylor Fritz among the stars in action.
This weekend: Main-draw singles play gets underway at the US Open, with Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz headlining the men's bracket.
- 1845Scientific American, the longest-running US magazine, publishes its first issue
- 1867The United States takes possession of the Midway Islands in the Pacific
- 1955Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till is abducted and murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the civil rights movement
- 1963Martin Luther King Jr. delivers 'I Have a Dream' at the March on Washington
The cowboy clinics selling unproven longevity treatments
How lightly regulated 'cowboy' clinics are cashing in on unproven longevity treatments sold to patients chasing a longer life. (Read, paywall)
Financial Times$ Subscription
Frequent Flockers. Repeat searches prompt officer firings, arrests
How police officers' repeat searches of Flock surveillance cameras have prompted firings and arrests across the country.
USA Today · Kenny Jacoby, Austin Fast, Jack Lemnus
This American Commando Parachuted Behind Enemy Lines in Both the European and Pacific Theaters of World War II
The story of an American commando who parachuted behind enemy lines in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II.
Smithsonian
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