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T-shirts and silver balls: Politics get mixed in with the profane at a Trump store

By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff, Frank Fenimore, CNN Boones Mill, Virginia (CNN) — Walk into Trump Town USA in Boones Mill, Virginia, and you may marvel at the breadth of human creativity, as long as you’re not distracted by how the merchandise tackles some of the most controversial political issues in the most vulgar way

Oct 20 • 9:05 AM EDT • Politics • kvia.com

Milwaukee-area bakeries serve Brewers-themed treats during World Series run

From baseball cookies to blue-and-yellow bread twists, businesses are getting creative to celebrate the Brewers.

Oct 19 • 8:34 AM EDT • Business • spectrumnews1.com

Streaming’s Biggest Show Returns…and a Buzzy Genre Struggles

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Obviously, the big news of the week (if not month) is Netflix letting go of executive Bela Bajaria, their chief content officer. I’m going to cover this in my next “Most Important Story of the Week”, but I also have a data angle that I might publish before then. (Too much news this month, am I right?) But first, I have a bonus Streaming Ratings Report issue for you. Today’s article is a bit of a grab bag of topics I’ve wanted to write about, but couldn’t squeeze into the (already very long) Streaming Ratings Report issues. The NFL drives huge viewership numbers, so I’ve got a look at that. A whole bunch of TV shows returned to the traditional broadcast channels, and I have thoughts. And I have a quick look at adult animated shows, since a couple flopped earlier this month. Plus, the Emmys aired earlier this month, and we got some fun data bout how popular those nominated shows are and why I’m not optimistic about the show’s future. That’s a lot, so let’s dive right in. Subscribe Sports - Football Remains the King of Streaming Over the last two Streaming Ratings Reports, I sorta ignored the biggest “show” each week. (I was tempted to say “piece of content” but I know that word bugs folks.) In my database, I call these “specials”, and they sure are special. I speak of the king of American TV: football!!! Streaming football is back and, unlike some other sports, it routinely dominates all viewership. Probably the best way to show this is to update one of my favorite graphics, the “40 Million Hour Club”1 since football games have joined that club each week they’ve premiered: (Yep, that’s the data through 28-Sep, the first four weeks of the season. As a reminder, I take the average minute audience provided by Nielsen, factor out a percentage of linear TV viewers in home markets, and multiply the run time by the three-hour runtime.) Again, the numbers are huge. Let’s start with Netflix. They grabbed the rights to the bonus opening week NFL Kickoff game (which was on YouTube last year) and it put up 18.5 million viewers on average. That nets out to 47.4 million hours of estimated streaming hours. That’s good! Though, notably, it’s well below Christmas Day games from previous years. Compared to other streamers/broadcasters, that’s a bit of a mixed result. On one hand, Netflix’s 18.5 million average is about what YouTube claimed last year, though Nielsen used a bespoke methodology at that time, so I trust this viewership figure more. So that’s good. (The game also shifted from a Friday to a Thursday and that could have helped the viewership as well.) And Netflix continues to best Prime Video in total viewership—as you’ll see next—though Netflix has had much higher-profile (opening week and Christmas Day) games. NBC/Peacock’s opening game the night before averaged 25.1 million average viewers, which is just much bigger than Netflix (or Prime Video). That’s the big caveat to all streaming viewership records: even in success, they can’t compete with traditional linear TV. Previously, I called this my “hierarchy of viewership”, and the data keeps supporting that thesis. The downside for NBC is that this game’s viewership was down compared to previous years, though it may be a counting issue. Here’s a great chart from Sports Media Watch: Indeed, looking at all the opening week games across all windows, Netflix still lags the other primetime windows, but does well compared to the afternoon games: I saw a few folks make the case that streamers still lag traditional broadcasters in reach, and I’d add they really lag compared to “broadcast plus streaming” options like NBC/Peacock, ESPN/Disney+ and CBS/Paramount+. The best data I saw for this came from Samba TV, who charted reach through the 2025 season, and, wow. (Samba TV’s numbers are historically lower than Nielsen’s, so don’t compare their household figures to Nielsen’s hours, but use them as a proxy for the relative reach of the streamers.) The good news is Prime Video is NOT having a down year. Their opening Thursday Night Football game reached 18.6 million viewers (about what Netflix got), but that’s a high for Prime Video on Thursdays and the biggest Thursday night game since 2015. The TNF games the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep continued this streak, getting 43.1 (16.8 million average viewers) and 42.5 total hours (16.6 million average viewers), which were both up from last year. Still, that continues the (typical) season slide: (For those new-to-streaming-football-numbers folks, the viewership declines for Thursday Night Football as the year goes along.) Overall, it appears as if Prime Video is now part of the “football habit”, be it for customers at home or out at places like bars and restaurants. And its viewership is slowly catching up to broadcast. One last chart shows this. Last season, Nielsen started adding out-of-home viewership to the charts, so I try not to do season-to-season comparisons as I did for the first few years. And while Nielsen added Big Data viewing this year, I’m going to compare the last two seasons. Here’s that chart, which shows the season-over-season gains: When it comes to streaming football, we have to keep a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our head… First, streaming doesn’t come close to matching broadcast’s reach and, thus, viewership. Second, even with that gap, football is still the biggest “thing” on streaming. It’s very, very popular. Third, while some methodology changes have likely helped Prime Video’s numbers, their viewership does appear to be growing. Lastly, yeah, the NFL started the season off poorly, with week one dragging down the numbers in year-over-year comparisons. However—and again, methodology changes may have helped this—the viewership grew compared to previous seasons over the next couple of weeks. So football is still king. On streaming and off. Television - Adult Animation Continues to NOT Make the Streaming Charts In the last two reports, two adult-animated shows whiffed: Netflix’s animated comedy, Dang! Paramount+’s Sega-video-game-inspired fantasy/comedy, Golden Axe. Neither made the charts, but that’s usually the case for animated shows. I mean, here’s literally every animated show that’s made the Nielsen Original charts since the start of 2025: And one of those shows is G_abby’s Dollhouse_! A kids show! The problem with charts like this is that they don’t give you a sense of how many shows miss the charts. Netflix had at least eleven animated flops, including comedies like Big Mouth (a show everyone assumed was popular in the pre-Streaming Ratings Era), Long Story Short, Haunted Hotel, Mating Season, Strip Law, and Alley Cats, and action shows like Blood of Zeus, Castlevania: Nocturne, Devil May Cry, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Prime Video had at least six animated misses, two in the same universe (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss), three more comedies (#1 Happy Family USA, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy and Kevin) and an action show (The Mighty Nein). Disney+ had MCU and Star Wars animated misses (Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld) but I can’t tell how many of those shows were geared towards adults. HBO Max had Harley Quinn and Hulu had Solar Opposites. None of these shows made the charts! That’s a lot of misses! If I remade the chart with all those misses, here’s how it would look: Listen, I know the counter arguments. First, it’s cheaper to produce animated shows than live action. Fair enough, but with viewership this low, even that cheaper price point starts to not matter. Second, just look at the acquired charts. Hit animated comedies can generate viewership for years! Shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers do really, really well. Fair enough, but streaming has failed to recreate the dynamic that Fox has mastered so well. That’s a problem for streaming still. Television - Emmys! The annual Emmys broadcast was a few weeks ago, and I’ve got data on how the nominees performed on streaming, plus hot takes on this year’s viewership (and the big news about the broadcast’s, er, streamcast’s future). We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… The top Emmy-nominated shows… ...why I’m worried about the future of the Emmys telecast... ...the pros of broadcast television ...and the cons... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue (since the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep were so light), but then I’ll be all caught up after a deluge of streaming ratings data from Nielsen in September. In the meantime, I’m going to try to take a look at Netflix’s stats to explain why Bela Bajaria is out. But even light weeks give me plenty to talk about. The Great British Baking Show returns to Netflix and Apple TV has a buzzy new star-studded comedy. And Netflix has a controversial-but-appears-to-be-popular new game show. Plus big films like Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner head to streaming. And is East of Eden a hit? After that, The Kardashians return to Hulu, Prime Video has a reboot of Carrie, and Netflix has a horror show, Below. Disclosure Day heads to Peacock, The Housemaid heads to HBO Max_,_ a new Ben Affleck film, Animals, lands on Netflix, and Apple TV has a new John Cena action film based on, checks notes, Hasbro’s Matchbox toys. Okay. Longterm, some interesting TV production news. HBO Max ordered How to Survive Without Me, starring Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson, Ray Romano and Rita Wilson, for fifteen episodes! I love that some streamers (or, at least, HBO Max) are finally ordering TV shows with more than eight episodes. In less wise production news, Landman does not appear to be coming back this year, since it just started production. Frankly, I don’t love this (get your shows out on time) but Landman is so popular, I doubt it matters.

Oct 18 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Gov. Spencer Cox & Martin Luther King III Discuss Bridging Political Divides

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R), South Carolina former Gov. David Beasley (R), and Martin Luther King III discussed how faith leaders and political leaders can bridge political divides. They each shared a call to action, which included breaking bread with someone of a different background, working to make the world a better place, and preaching hope. The Salt Lake Tabernacle hosted the discussion.

Oct 15 • 5:34 PM EDT • Politics • c-span.org

IP Saves the Day On Streaming

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get started, I wanted to highlight a new idea I saw from Real Good AI, proposing a ratings system for AI use. (H/T to Anthony Kaufman’s article highlighting this.) It would look something like this: In general, I think that this is a solid, middle-ground solution that should appease both the pro-AI camp (who love AI) and the anti-AI camp (who wants to know if what they’re watching didn’t come from humans). Regardless of your feelings on AI/LLMs—I’ll never use it for my writing—transparency is often the best solution to many problems. In general, I think way more media outlets need to be using way more AI disclosures. My quick “Yes and...” to this idea: what about ads? In particular, I hate it when I see or hear ads that are obviously AI-generated, but a person or voice says, “I used this product”. AI doesn’t use products! Just today, I watched a YouTube ad where a “person” said they use some sort of rain wind chime...but that’s not a real person! They didn’t use this product. (Especially since the video of the wind chime itself also appeared to be AI-generated...) I believe most traditional advertising already has standards like this anyway.1 Okay, on to this week’s issue. We’re covering the week of 14-Sep, and then next issue, I’ll be fully caught up with Nielsen’s new release schedule. In the future, I plan to put out Streaming Ratings Reports each Monday after Nielsen’s Thursday releases. Overall, we had some big new shows this week, like Prime Video’s Reacher spinoff_, Neagley_, which is off to a big, big start, and Netflix’s latest in its Monster anthology, which is their largest opening since June and the second-largest since One Piece came out in March. All that, plus Slow Horses returns, the trio of returning shows (Lioness, Reacher and Ted Lasso) continue to dominate the top tens, Paramount+’s latest crime drama, a big whiff for a Netflix original film and a precipitous drop for Netflix film charts, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to September 20th 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - IP For the TV Win Can I use the dirty word of entertainment journalism right now? IP. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone I said it. But IP works at the box office, and we’ve seen some evidence it works in TV too. Not as well, and not all the time—no absolutes here!—but often enough. And glancing at the Nielsen top ten…it worked this week! Take Prime Video, who has a monster hit in the crime drama Reacher. Would a spinoff work for that show? Yep! They binge-released Neagley, about a detective from the original Reacher series, and its eight episodes debuted to 29.6 million hours. Here’s how it stacks up to Reacher, one of Prime Video’s biggest shows: That’s great. Nearly as strong as Reacher’s opening! (Both shows started with eight, binge-released episodes, so this comparison is apples-to-apples.) Notably, Prime Video scheduled the debut of Neagley to overlap with Reacher’s most recent season, to help drive tune-in. Obviously, I love smart release strategies like that. And even though I wrote “obviously”, it’s not really that obvious, since streamers don’t often take advantage of natural overlaps like this_._2 Other data backs how well Neagley performed. It opened at second place on Samba TV for two weeks and got 51.7 million hours on Luminate. That’s the eleventh biggest opening on Luminate since May of 2024 and tied with Bridgerton’s third season opening. That’s a huge opening! Its IMDb is solid too, a 7.7 on 24K reviews. Netflix’s latest edition in the “Monster” series—which started with Jeffrey Dahmer and comes from Ryan Murphy—did well too, opening to 24.7 million hours. That’s the biggest opening for Netflix since I Will Find You in June, and second biggest since March. Unlike the Reacher series, this franchise is trending downward, though. The first Monster show—Dahmer - Monster—was giant. More than anything, I think this reflects that Netflix running out of extremely popular—if that’s the right word?—serial killers to feature. Still, the data says this is a very good opening. It made it to third place on Samba TV for two weeks. It also opened to 40.0 million hours on Luminate. That’s not quite as elite as Neagley, but still very, very strong. I’ll be honest: my priors coming into any given week are that IP works to help drive buzz for new shows, but TV shows need to stand on their own even more than movies, so they will succeed or fail based on their quality. But these two spinoffs definitely worked. Quick Notes on TV The top show, film or special this week? Football, again. Specifically, Prime Video’s season opener of Thursday Night Football. The games run long (three hours) but mainly a lot of people watch each game. That adds up to a lot of viewership. Paramount released the second season of MobLand on an unusual day for that service, a Friday! Often, they put their new shows out on a Sunday, as they did last year with a run of shows (Lioness, Tulsa King and Landman). MobLand didn’t make Nielsen in its first week, but on Samba TV it got to eighth and seventh place. Luminate had a smaller opening too, only 5.3 million hours. MobLand missed the Nielsen charts for its first eight weeks, so this season is off to a stronger start. (Bonus note: the first season streams on both Prime Video and The Roku Channel, but I only have it as Paramount+ on those charts.) I’ve mentioned a few times that foreign-language originals do lower numbers than English-language originals on Netflix most of the time. But I don’t usually emphasize what country those originals come from, and observationally, they tend to be from Western or Northern European countries, in general. So credit to Not a Stranger, a Turkish Netflix original, for breaking through on Luminate, getting to 7.9 million hours in its first full week on those charts. As I mentioned last issue, Crew Girl ended up making the Nielsen charts in its second week. That’s still a soft performance compared to many shows, but again this, one looks affordable. And if you’re curious, here’s how it stacks up to some other sports romance shows: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… …about a new data source and how it drives streaming viewership… ...what reality show is struggling in its latest season…. ...what Netflix film bombed…. ...How Reacher, Ted Lasso, and Lioness are doing on the charts… ...what obscure sport put up great viewership numbers… …how far streaming films are falling… …all the flops, bombs and misses for the last week… …and more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue, then we’ll be all caught up with Nielsen’s data. Yes! The goal is to have my report out on the Monday after I get Nielsen’s data. So next issue, I’m looking at East of Eden, The Great British Baking Show, a Willy Wonka game show (that people are upset uses AI, but viewers might not care), and a Cosby show spinoff reboot on Netflix, and Brothers on Apple TV (starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey). That’s about it for TV, but who’s going to win the streaming week, The Breadwinner or Backrooms on streaming? Answer: Toy Story 5. Plus Netflix has a Unabomber film and a new Tyler Perry film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma tries to repeat The Substance’s run on MUBI, and Paramount+ has Jackass: Best and Last. Long term, Netflix is remaking Lonesome Dove. I love this choice, but man, there are a lot of westerns on TV right now. And they’re making Sega TV shows, including a Crazy Taxi TV show and Sonic show with an “edge”.

Oct 15 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Youhong (Nancy) Guo wins 2026 Packard Fellowship - College of Arts and Sciences

Guo is one of 20 fellows this year whose work spans the breadth of science and engineering disciplines.

Oct 15 • 9:06 AM EDT • Science • college.unc.edu

Canada's Purebread Plans to Acquire Caffè Artigiano's Cafe Business

Purebread Brands signed a letter of intent for a C$7.7 million stock acquisition of Caffè Artigiano’s cafe business and 27-location network.

Oct 14 • 7:29 AM EDT • Business • dailycoffeenews.com

Blink brought 30+ new murals to Cincy, NKY. Here's where to see them

Blink Cincinnati 2026 has ended, but the festival left behind over 30 new permanent murals across the region. Here's where to see them.

Oct 14 • 12:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • cincinnati.com

The Breadwinner Was So Offensive To Me As A Dad, I Almost Didn't Finish It

I genuinely can't believe no one stopped this movie.

Oct 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

RFK Jr. tasks researchers with studying vaccine injuries

The US Department of Health and Human Services launched a program this week to study and capture the breadth of vaccine injuries, reviving a longtime priority for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and stoking concerns from some public health advocates.

Oct 8 • 4:23 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com

RWJBarnabas Health and Local Elected Officials Partner for Food Distribution Event

In September at the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center in Essex County Branch Brook Park, RWJBarnabas Health and Clara Maass Medical Center joined Senator Teresa Ruiz, Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin, Assemblywoman Shanique Speight, Assemblywoman Carmen Morales and Assemblyman Michael Venezia to distribute 180 boxes filled with healthy produce, eggs, bread and more to community members.

Oct 7 • 3:17 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org

The counties to watch on the massive midterm elections battlefield

The breadth of the public backlash against President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term is rapidly widening the campaign battlefield for 2026.

Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

NYC bakery’s $60 loaf of bread sparks social media buzz

Oct 2 • 6:26 PM EDT • Business • cnn.com

Contrasting Anthropic and Oura IPO plans show stock market breadth issue

Anthropic is racing toward a massive IPO while Oura hits pause, exposing Wall Street's increasingly narrow AI obsession.

Sep 30 • 5:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

What Panera Bread’s Founder Wants CEOs To Consider About Their Health

Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich asks CEOs to look years ahead. His question also brings a more personal decision about health into focus.

Sep 27 • 11:45 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

What Panera Bread’s Founder Wants CEOs To Consider About Their Health

Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich asks CEOs to look years ahead. His question also brings a more personal decision about health into focus.

Sep 27 • 11:45 PM EDT • Health • forbes.com

Plovdiv Science Festival 2026: Events in English

The fourth Plovdiv Science Festival is being held from October 22 to 25 2026, and includes events in English. October 22, 5.30pm, Cosmos Hall: Bread for the future: enhancing the resilience of crop…

Sep 27 • 12:03 PM EDT • Science • sofiaglobe.com

Corbion launches second cultured preservation solution

The portfolio now includes Verdad Essence WH150.

Sep 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • foodbusinessnews.net

New Business: Flatbread Co. to take over IHOP in Bedford; Salem restaurant gets new name

An “earth oven” flatbread pizza company with locations in destination spots like North Conway and Portsmouth — and even Hawaii — is set to open in the former IHOP building

Sep 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • unionleader.com

American Society for Microbiology honors Vanderbilt Health investigators

American Society for Microbiology awards highlight the ‘strength and breadth’ of microbiology research at Vanderbilt Health.

Sep 16 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org

Scientists find the whole grain “sweet spot” for better heart health

Eating four to six servings of whole grains a day may deliver meaningful benefits for heart health, according to a large review of 87 clinical trials. Researchers found improvements in body weight, waist size, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, triglycerides, and some markers of inflammation.

Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • sciencedaily.com

Oregon Business & Industry names 16 finalists for manufacturing contest

Bend, Ore. (KTVZ) --- Oregon Business & Industry has named 16 finalists for its fourth annual Coolest Thing Made in Oregon contest. The statewide competition aims to recognize the breadth and ingenuity of Oregon's manufacturing sector. A panel selected this year's finalists from scores of products nominated by residents over the spring and summer. The

Sep 15 • 10:57 AM EDT • Business • ktvz.com

Roanoke’s “Bread Lady” turns weekly baking experiments into a growing business

Sep 14 • 5:04 PM EDT • Business • wsls.com

The most radical act this election season? Texans dining together.

We can spend another election cycle shouting across the divide, or we can sit down, break bread and begin closing it.

Sep 14 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com

Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina launches April 22, 2027

Fighting game Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on April 22, 2027, publisher Aniplex and developer French-Bread anno…

Sep 11 • 11:06 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

Four Islamic polymaths prove breadth beats specialisation

The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way

Sep 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • aeon.co

Is David Beasley the most interesting second act in politics?

Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, known for his principled stance on removing the Confederate flag and his leadership as UN World Food Programme head, launched the Breaking Bread Together m…

Sep 9 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com

Home-based bread business Golden Grain opens first Worcester café

Golden Grain Artisanal Bread Café, which began in a family kitchen in 2024, is opening its first brick-and-mortar location at 250 Commercial St. in downtown Worcester

Sep 8 • 11:13 PM EDT • Business • theworcesterguardian.org

AZ's R&D chief Barr touts internal 'science success story' after IL-33 antibody's stellar showing in COPD

With a detailed data drop that AstraZeneca’s R&D chief described as an internal “science success story,” the British Big Pharma has secured an FDA priority review for what it believes could become a flagship biologic in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In detailed results from the late-stage Oberon and Titania trials—first teased in March and detailed in full at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Barcelona this week—the drugmaker laid out the extent of its IL-33 inhibitor’s potential to reduce moderate and severe exacerbations in a wide range of COPD patients still struggling with those “lung attacks,” as AstraZeneca’s Sharon Barr, Ph.D., called them, despite using standard-care inhaled therapy. In the headline results, a 300 mg dose of tozorakimab given once every four weeks curbed those moderate and severe exacerbations in the studies’ primary population of former smokers by 29% in the Oberon study and 34% in Titania. In the overall population of both current and former smokers, these reductions were 30% and 29%, respectively, versus placebo and inhaled standard of care. The benefits also extended to clinically meaningful exacerbation reductions in all prespecified patient subgroups and specifically turned up promising signals in patients across a range of blood eosinophil counts, with Barr telling Fierce that “it’s the details that make this even more exciting than the high-level results that we’ve already shared.” In fact, during AZ’s tozorakimab poster presentation at the ERS 2026 Congress this past weekend, attendees were so enamored by the data that event organizers had to encourage people to clear the room and look at the other presentations on offer, Barr said in an interview. “I think it really speaks to the fact that there is a lot of buzz around these data because the entire respiratory community has been so desperate for new therapies for these patients,” she explained. The respiratory disease continues to represent a “staggering unmet medical need,” Barr said, highlighting the COPD exacerbations that the Oberon and Titania studies homed in on, which she added carry a greater mortality risk than a heart attack. “When a patient has a severe exacerbation, only about half of them are still alive within three and a half years,” she pointed out. As for tozorakimab specifically, Barr christened the molecule “an AstraZeneca science success story,” harkening several years back to the point at which researchers began to explore IL-33 as a driver of respiratory disease, and COPD in particular. At the same time, “there was still so much that wasn’t understood,” she admitted, highlighting the insight that IL-33 signals through both ST2 and EGFR through the RAGE pathway, a discovery Barr attributed to AstraZeneca's own scientists. Understanding the need to tackle both pathways in COPD—and aware of competitor candidates in the hopper, including one that bound ST2—the company ultimately had to make some “courageous decisions,” Barr said. These included taking a prior COPD molecule offline and going back to the drawing board to reinvent its potential IL-33 label “to make sure that we had a molecule that could block signaling through both arms of the pathway, through both the reduced form and the oxidized form, knowing that we wouldn’t be first, but striving to be best.” “When we put [tozorakimab] into the clinic, we firmly believed that we had a differentiated molecule, and we saw the other molecules blocking just ST2 or partially blocking IL-33, unable to deliver two positive pivotal studies in COPD,” Barr explained. “We kept marching forward because we believed our molecule was differentiated, and now I think we have the clinical validation that supports that.” Ultimately, AstraZeneca finds itself on much better footing these days when it comes to potential biologic rivals to tozorakimab in COPD. Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent, for instance, is approved to treat COPD exacerbations in patients with high eosinophil counts, but not low ones. Meanwhile, the future has become cloudier for other next-gen IL-33 candidates from Sanofi and Regeneron, as well as Roche, which have suffered trial flops in recent years. One other potential ingredient for AstraZeneca’s success in its duo of studies was that the company was “ambitious in the trial design, willing to look at an all-comers population,” Barr said, “and willing to enroll the most severe patients.” Prior studies for would-be biologics rivals in COPD “avoided enrolling” those patients, she pointed out. She also highlighted the Big Pharma’s painstaking design of exacerbations in its trial, which “gave us a very rigorous readout,” and pointed to “the extra effort and investment” the company put in to understand the effect of mucus plugs in patients. Barr described mucus production as a “key feature in disease diversity,” noting that mucus plugs—obstructing clumps of mucus that block patients’ airways—are associated with worse outcomes in COPD. In its data announcement, AstraZeneca noted that an integrated analysis of Oberon and Titania found tozorakimab “demonstrated a reduction in patients’ mucus plug score,” with the pharma claiming its biologic is the first to deliver such results in a broad COPD population. “So being able to reduce those mucus plugs, we expect, is an important part of driving benefit for patients who are living with COPD,” Barr said. Again touching on the breadth of the study populations, Barr added that tozorakimab “worked across all eosinophil levels in both current and former smokers across all levels of lung function,” which she suggested “really simplifies decision-making for clinicians, and it allows them to offer therapy to the broadest possible patient population.” In the highest patient eosinophil count group, tozorakimab helped chart a 43% reduction in exacerbation risk, which Barr stressed were “unprecedented data.” In the mid-level group, AZ’s drug delivered a 23% reduction and, in the lowest group, a 34% reduction in eosinophils, which Barr said suggests efficacy “in all patient subgroups.” As for AZ’s recent guidance upgrade on the medicine’s sales opportunity, the lift from a $3 billion to $5 billion range to $5 billion plus was informed by multiple factors, Barr said, including the fact that “in 2024, there were multiple competitors, and there aren’t anymore.” Additionally, “we know that this is a massive unmet medical need, and this is a really incredible set of data that we think will be very convincing to the clinical community,” Barr said. Looking ahead to a potential evolution of the COPD treatment landscape, Barr noted that most patients start treatment in the community with an option like a triple therapy, and for them, having an option like AstraZeneca’s inhaler Breztri will remain a “really important part” of that journey. But of the patients uncontrolled on triple therapy, which Barr described as “about half of them today,” just a “small fraction” are currently eligible for biologic therapy, which she emphasized AstraZeneca is working to change. Understanding that COPD is not a “one-size-fits-all” disease, AstraZeneca is also looking at its antibody drug Tezspire for patients with T2-driven disease, and the company continues to think about new mechanisms for tackling COPD through both systemic and inhaled drugs, Barr said.

Sep 8 • 10:50 AM EDT • Science • fiercebiotech.com

Pfaff tells ‘UpFront’ Dems must focus on ‘bread and butter’ issues to win in November

State Sen. Brad Pfaff says Democrats must focus on "bread and butter affordability issues" in order to unite and win in November as he hosted numerous candidates at his annual corn roast at the La Crosse County Fairgrounds.

Sep 7 • 3:57 PM EDT • Politics • wispolitics.com

Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, The Bread Board

Read the release on Sen. Ernst's website HERE. Throughout this Congress, Chair Ernst plans to recognize a small business in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: The Bread Board of Marion County. Throughout the 119th Congress, Chair Ernst plans to recognize a small business in each of Iowa's 99 counties. “The Bread Board has risen to the occasion, growing from Heidi’s passion for baking into a thriving Pella bakery that brings people together,” said Chair Ernst. “From serving fresh sourdough and homemade meals to supporting local businesses, schools, and community events, Heidi and her team have proven they have the perfect recipe for success.” Heidi Rozenboom grew up baking fresh bread alongside her grandmother, always using the same bread board that would eventually inspire her business’ name. Years later, Heidi started selling fresh bread to local coffee shops and cafes. As demand grew, she opened her storefront in downtown Pella in 2021 and named her bakery the Bread Board. Today, the Bread Board serves fresh sourdough bread, pastries, homemade meals, and other baked goods. Stay tuned as Chair Ernst continues to recognize outstanding Iowa small businesses with her Small Business of the Week award. ###

Aug 31 • 6:01 PM EDT • Business • sbc.senate.gov

OOI Participates in Woods Hole Science Stroll

The Woods Hole Science Stroll is an annual event that highlights the major research institutions located in Woods Hole village (WHOI, MBL, NOAA, USGS, USCG), and also includes over 20 organizations representing a breadth of STEM research, education, and environmental groups (Fig 1). The all-day event is open to the…

Aug 31 • 4:25 PM EDT • Science • oceanobservatories.org

Rockstar Has GTA 5 Fans Marveling At How Far GTA 6 Has Come

Is Rockstar Games' much-anticipated GTA 6 the best thing since sliced bread, or just GTA 5 with a new coat of paint?

Aug 30 • 1:11 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

Fazoli's remaining location in Sioux Falls closes

Sioux Falls diners no longer have access to unlimited breadsticks from Fazoli's.

Aug 25 • 4:47 PM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business

QXO (QXO) is Rebuilding Business Models for Greater Value

Orbis Investment Management, an investment management company, released its Q2 2026 investor letter for “Orbis Global Equity Strategy”. The letter can be downloaded here. In the first half of 2026, the Global Equity Strategy returned 19.9%, surpassing the MSCI All Country World Index by 7.8%. The market faced narrow breadth in the quarter. The strategy focuses […]

Aug 25 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Business Monday: Punalu‘u Bake Shop donates last of its sweet bread after Lala severe damages from Lala

Punuluʻu Bake Shop general manager Zachary Kennedy said it will take time to rebuild the badly damaged properties of the business, “we are 100% going to rebuild.”

Aug 24 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • bigislandnow.com

Reading Isn’t Rocket Science… But In This Case…

While Hackaday’s bread and butter is, of course, hacks, we sometimes cover things that most of us are interested in that are probably out of reach for the typical hacker. Space, for example, …

Aug 20 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • hackaday.com

News | Live Nation looks to bake up entertainment at former San Diego Wonder Bread factory

Venue operator plans to convert 102-year-old property into 4,000-seat music hub

Aug 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • costar.com

Seven Virginia Tech faculty elected to 2026 Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

The new members represent the university's research breadth in wireless communications, cybersecurity, cancer biology, medical education, AI, drug delivery, and comparative oncology.

Aug 12 • 5:28 PM EDT • Science • news.vt.edu

The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels

Editorial: Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged

Aug 9 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

Can You Eat Moldy Bread? Here’s What a Dietitian Says

It is generally not recommended that you consume moldy bread. Some molds have mycotoxins, harmful compounds that may cause gastrointestinal symptoms.

Jul 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • health.com

Inside Duke’s growing student pop-up business scene

From banana bread and matcha to handmade crochet, student-run pop-up businesses have become an increasingly visible part of Duke’s campus life.

Jul 23 • 11:40 PM EDT • Business • dukechronicle.com

Costco adds hot fan favorite to food court menu as shoppers debate taste and value

Costco is expanding its famously affordable food court menu with a new $6.99 chicken strip meal and the addition has already divided shoppers over its flavor, breading and value.

Jul 17 • 6:28 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

Taco Bell, Panera see fewer visitors amid cyclospora outbreak

Foot traffic at Taco Bell, Panera Bread, and Chopt has fallen as fresh produce concerns grow across the US during a cyclospora outbreak.

Jul 17 • 9:27 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Winter Sports Club responds to Nordic combined’s removal from Olympics

In a gut-punch to the Steamboat Springs Nordic combined community, the sport has been removed from the Alpes 2030 Winter Olympic games in France. Nordic combined has long been a bread-and-butter sport for the Steamboat...

Jul 16 • 7:06 AM EDT • Sports • steamboatpilot.com

A career worth the call: After 52 years in four sports, umpire Rene Arsenault hangs up his gear

When Rene Arsenault began his career behind the dish as an umpire, things certainly looked different across the landscape in the country. It was 1974 in Fitchburg. He was a plucky high school graduate. The average home cost about $21,000. Gas prices hovered around 30 cents a gallon and a loaf of bread listed for […]

Jul 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • recorder.com

New Sixer Dean Wade embraces ‘thankless job' on defense

New Sixer Dean Wade knows his bread and butter in the NBA is often a “thankless job.”

Jul 7 • 3:33 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com

State Street Health Care ETF Tops Invesco Pharma on Cost and Size

Compare sector breadth, yield, and recent performance as these two healthcare ETFs take different approaches to growth and income.

Jul 4 • 12:05 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Naks Pan is a new salt bread business on Oʻahu

The home bakery specializes in shio pan, or salt bread, and cream pan. The Japanese bread rolls are available in a variety of flavors, while the cream pan…

Jul 3 • 5:00 PM EDT • Business • alohastatedaily.com

This Baker’s Business Is Booming (and It’s Not Just Because of the Cannon Fire)

Justin Cherry’s breads are in demand this semiquincentennial, as is his knowledge of historical baking methods.

Jun 29 • 5:02 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com

ConcernedApe Explains Why He's Shown So Little Of Haunted Chocolatier: 'I Would Rather Serve A Fully Baked Bread'

Eric Barone posted his first blog update in six months yesterday to reassure fans he's still hard at work.

Jun 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com

Need for bread | Unexpected closure of Terranetti's Bakery has left several businesses scrambling

Terranetti's Bakery closes, and local shops are scrambling for bread

Jun 25 • 7:47 PM EDT • Business • wgal.com

I ordered the same meal at Olive Garden and Carrabba's; clear winner

I compared bread, salads, entrées, and desserts from Olive Garden and Carrabba's to see which Italian-American chain had the better dishes and deals.

Jun 22 • 1:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Jason Bateman recalls financial pressure to 'not get fired' as child actor

Former child actor Jason Bateman recalls juggling school, work, and the pressure to 'not get fired' as his family's major breadwinner.

Jun 21 • 12:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Iconic Ohio baking company to liquidate after 120 years of business: 'Devastating'

Schwebel Baking Company, the iconic Ohio bread maker founded in 1906, will liquidate and close its Youngstown bakery after failing to find a buyer.

Jun 19 • 5:29 AM EDT • Business • abc6onyourside.com

Is Bread Actually Healthy? Here's What Nutrition Experts Say

The nutrition profile of bread depends on which type it is, how you consume it, and what else you’re eating.

Jun 15 • 11:04 AM EDT • Health • time.com

Hillsborough's Accidental Baker grows from home kitchen to award-winning cracker company

The Accidental Baker produces artisan flatbread crackers out of Hillsborough.

Jun 12 • 3:32 PM EDT • Business • abc11.com

NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket

A collaboration of scientists from NASA and Brazilian research institutions has produced a detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images

Jun 5 • 1:50 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy

Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too

Jun 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 Reveals Cover Athletes Celebrating The Next Generation of Football Stars

Dante Moore, Malachi Toney and Kewan Lacy Appear on the College Football 27 Standard Edition, While Deluxe Edition Features Colin Simmons, Leonard Moore, Jayden Maiava and Coach Curt Cignetti Fans Can Expect Full Game Reveal This Thursday and Worldwide Launch on July 9 EA SPORTS™ today revealed the covers of EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 ahead of the game’s full reveal this Thursday. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney, and Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy shine on the Standard Edition cover as a trio of electrifying playmakers who stood out in a competitive 2025-2026 college football season. The Deluxe Edition is joined by prominent defenders Texas linebacker Colin Simmons and Notre Dame cornerback Leonard Moore, alongside USC quarterback Jayden Maiava, national championship-winning coach Curt Cignetti, several beloved mascots and iconic gameday gear, celebrating the breadth of successful collegiate programs. Standout athletes Kewan Lacy, Malachi Toney

Jun 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • ir.ea.com

EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 Reveals Cover Athletes Celebrating The Next Generation of Football Stars

Dante Moore, Malachi Toney and Kewan Lacy Appear on the College Football 27 Standard Edition, While Deluxe Edition Features Colin Simmons, Leonard Moore, Jayden Maiava and Coach Curt Cignetti Fans Can Expect Full Game Reveal This Thursday and Worldwide Launch on July 9 EA SPORTS™ today revealed the covers of EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 ahead of the game’s full reveal this Thursday. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney, and Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy shine on the Standard Edition cover as a trio of electrifying playmakers who stood out in a competitive 2025-2026 college football season. The Deluxe Edition is joined by prominent defenders Texas linebacker Colin Simmons and Notre Dame cornerback Leonard Moore, alongside USC quarterback Jayden Maiava, national championship-winning coach Curt Cignetti, several beloved mascots and iconic gameday gear, celebrating the breadth of successful collegiate programs. Standout athletes Kewan Lacy, Malachi Toney

Jun 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • news.ea.com

Review: Might be better to stay at home for comedian Nate Bargatze’s turn as stay-at-home dad in ‘The Breadwinner’

Comedian Nate Bargatze's acting turn as a stay-at-home dad is helped by comedy cameos but lacks a cohesive story to connect the often disjointed scenes.

Jun 1 • 7:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com

Frozen food item sold at Costco recalled over salmonella concern

Frozen Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread sold at Costco is recalled over potential salmonella concerns linked to a recalled milk powder ingredient.

May 31 • 7:17 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

Nate Bargatze is trying to revive the all-ages comedy. Will it work?

“The Breadwinner,” which arrived in theaters Friday, is the rare PG comedy aimed at families.

May 30 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com

Opinion: Follow California’s lead in protecting workers from AI displacement

By an Executive Order, Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to fill a gaping public policy void on a bread-and-butter issue for workers. Illinois and Gov. JB Pritzker would do well to follow suit.

May 27 • 5:32 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Advancing high-threat pathogen preparedness in WHO South-East Asia Region: 2025 in review

Effective preparedness for high-threat pathogens demands more than technical tools — it requires a coherent strategy, sustained country engagement, and the institutional infrastructure to translate evidence into action. In 2025, the Pandemic and Epidemic Management (PEM) Unit advanced all three, working across the full spectrum of high threat pathogen (HTP) preparedness: from methodology development and evidence generation to country-level technical support, emergency response, and regional workforce strengthening.At the core of the PEM unit's work is building the regional evidence and policy architecture needed to prioritize and respond to HTPs systematically. A major milestone was the development of the HTP Prioritization Methodology — a structured, multi-criteria approach to ranking pathogens by epidemic potential, severity, and national context — and its national pilot in Bangladesh, where SARS-CoV-2, Nipah, dengue, and cholera emerged as the highest-priority threats, informing the PEM unit's contribution to 2026–27 biennium prioritization and workplan development (Access link here).Underpinning this work, the PEM unit advanced the peer-reviewed evidence base for HTP preparedness in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR), with three publications in international journals in 2025: Development of a zoonotic influenza distribution assessment and ranking system (ZIDAR): Technical application in Nepal to support cross-sectoral risk-based surveillance in One Health; Implications for influenza A virus surveillance in Southeast Asian Region countries: a scoping review of approaches for the surveillance of swine influenza viruses at human-swine interfaces in BMJ Public Health; and Operationalizing multisector partnerships: a Theory of Action and Reflection tool for zoonotic influenzas in Health Policy and Planning. Together, these contributions move the Region’s HTP preparedness agenda from practice to science — generating the transferable methodological foundations that will inform evidence-based capacity strengthening in Member States.Country-level engagement in 2025 reflected the breadth of contexts in which HTP preparedness must function. Technical support was provided for Mpox and cholera events across the Region, including coordination of cholera and acute watery diarrhea prevention and control in Myanmar in the wake of the March 2025 earthquake. In Myanmar, the PEM unit contributed technical leadership to the earthquake emergency response — one of the most complex humanitarian emergencies in the SEAR — as Health Operations and Technical Support lead within the Incident Management Support Team. This included strengthening emergency response planning, supporting operational and after-action reviews, and providing monitoring and evaluation support for both acute and protracted crisis response. The breadth of HTP support provided to emergency operations across the SEAR was documented in the PEM unit’s contribution to the regional report for the Health Security Interface Technical Advisory Group.In Sri Lanka, technical collaboration with the WHO Country Office and the Ministry of Health laid the groundwork for the National Steering Committee's 2026 annual meeting, development of Standard Operating Procedures for specialized emergency response, and a national training programme — all structured around evidence-based risk assessment for specialized hazards including HTPs.Across the SEAR, the unit contributed to strengthening the workforce architecture that underpins HTP response. Technical inputs shaped the WHO South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Workforce Strategy 2025–2030, and the PEM unit supported conceptual development of the health emergency workforce framework for the Pandemic Fund Round 3 proposal.Alongside this, the unit's sustained engagement on the meningitis agenda culminated in the launch of the Regional Implementation Framework to Defeat Meningitis in South-East Asia by 2030 at the Seventy-eighth Session of the Regional Committee, ensuring the Region's priorities were reflected in the Global Technical Task Force and expanding the unit's HTP engagement beyond outbreak-prone zoonotic pathogens (Regional Implementation Framework to Defeat Meningitis in South-East Asia by 2030).Taken together, 2025 demonstrated that meaningful HTP preparedness is built incrementally — through methodology, engagement, and the steady accumulation of institutional capacity across Member States.Bangladesh piloted the HTP Prioritization Methodology and identified the highest-priority pathogens in the country context (Photo credit: WHO Country Office, Bangladesh).

May 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int

Science Learning Center changes name, recognizes Dr Louisa Stark

This past Memorial Day Weekend, the Genetic Science Learning Center formally announced a name change. “For our new name, we needed something that reflected the breadth of our work, extending from genetics and healthcare to all realms of science,” keynote speaker Kagan Breitenbach told the audience.“Second, we wanted a name to reflect our legacy...

May 25 • 7:20 PM EDT • Science • dailyutahchronicle.com

Better Health Care ETF: Fidelity's FHLC vs. State Street's XLV

Expense ratios match, but portfolio breadth, yield, and stock concentration set these two healthcare ETFs apart for investors seeking sector exposure.

May 24 • 6:19 PM EDT • Health • fool.com

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

May 24 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Feature: Moore ’26 Keeps Busy with Double Science Major and Music

Luke Moore ’26 came to Kansas Wesleyan on a music scholarship. He’s graduating this weekend (May 16) with a double major in Chemistry and Physics. He’s as active on the music side as he is with his science activities — he’s played the cello for 10 years, including four years at Kansas Wesleyan. It’s common, he said, for scientists and musicians to share those interests. “I’ve spoken to plenty of musicians who would have done science if they weren’t musicians, and I’ve talked to plenty of scientists who would have done music if they weren’t scientists,” Mooresaid. He played the cello in the string orchestra, which he’s done since his first year, and as a junior and senior, sang in the Philharmonic Choir as a bass. He hadn’t sung in a choir since middle schoolin Garden City, but he found he really enjoys that aspect of his college career. Also as a junior, Moore helped re-activate the STEM Club as vice president. For two years, he helped build the club’s battlebot. Last year the bot came home from battles in Kansas City in pieces, lots of pieces. This year it came home with the first-place trophy. He’s helped make frozen nitrogen ice cream at Homecoming and other events and helped organize the STEM Club’s first gingerbread house competition for the holidays. Willing to get his hands – and face – dirty for science, he encouraged fellow musicians and scientists to smash him in the face with whipped cream pies on Pi Day (March 14) as a fundraiser for the STEM Club. His capstone project involved developing a metallic organic framework (MOF) that takes a methylene blue dye out of water. “I’m proud that I was able to design this project, and I was proud that I did end up making the MOF,” Moore said. The professors and attitudes at KWU have made all this possible. “I don’t actually have time for everything,” Moore said. “I have to prioritize things. Things inevitably fall through the cracks, but it’s hard for me to choose one over the other, because I like a lot of things. And I don’t want to not do music, and I don’t want to not do science.” Moore said that Kansas Wesleyan, as a smaller university, gives students the opportunity to try things. “If I were to want to be in a music ensemble, it would probably be a bit harder in a larger school. One nice thing about this school is that everyone’s involved in something,” he said. “Professors know that you have other things going on, and they are flexible and understanding.” Moore has applied to grad schools, with an goal of earning his Ph.D. and landing at a university big enough to allow for a small research team that also gives him an opportunity to teach. He’s off to a good start. Moore is receiving the award for Outstanding Research in the Math, Physics and Computer Studies Department at Commencement this year. Story by Jean Kozubowski

May 15 • 4:27 PM EDT • Science • kwu.edu

Sports bar opening in SoMa as World Cup prepares to kick off

This SoMa sports bar will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, with dishes that include bread pudding French toast, sausage Benedict, hot honey chicken biscuits and pork belly nachos.

May 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sfchronicle.com

Grocery Business Hall of Fame unveils 2026 inductees

Grocery Business Hall of Fame Class of 2026 Meet the 20 individuals being inducted into this year's Grocery Business Hall of Fame. TORONTO, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grocery Business Hall of Fame has announced its 2026 class, recognizing 20 individuals for their contributions to Canada’s grocery industry and the communities they serve. Selected by an industry committee, this year’s inductees span retail, supplier and industry stewardship roles, reflecting the breadth of leadership driving

May 13 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Baton Rouge entrepreneur rebuilds life one loaf at a time

After surviving three heart attacks and open-heart surgery, Baton Rouge entrepreneur Matt Bolton traded the industrial construction business for a slower—but no less demanding—second act in artisan breadmaking, 225 writes. What began as a sourdough hobby in retirement has grown into BlueRabbit Bakehouse, a Jefferson Highway bakery drawing weekend lines for its small-batch loaves, spreads […]

May 12 • 3:57 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com

Sara Lee owner to invest $1B in US business

The bread and pastry company said the funding will support innovation and affordability efforts as the Mexico-based company expands its reach in one of its largest regions.

May 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • fooddive.com

Trouble for Labour across a scrambled political map

Breadth of previous support for the party makes it vulnerable to losing everywhere, to everyone, this week

May 4 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • ft.com

Chris Mason: Elections this week a smorgasbord of competitiveness

The scale of these elections looks set to vividly expose the breadth of Labour's vulnerabilities, Chris Mason writes.

May 3 • 9:08 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com

Is pita bread actually healthy?

Here’s what pita bread is, how it can be healthy and why moderation still matters.

May 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina announced for PS5, Switch 2, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC

Publisher Aniplex and developer French-Bread have announced fighting game Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam). It will launch in ear…

May 2 • 12:05 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

What I buy at Trader Joe's for easy meals, from dietitian

As a dietitian, I buy items like turkey burgers, steamed lentils, frozen berries, salted edamame, and seeded bread at Trader Joe's for easy meals.

Apr 26 • 7:02 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Health Sciences Showcase Highlights Advances in Care

President Andrea Goldsmith attended a presentation highlighting the breadth of work taking place across Stony Brook University’s Health Sciences Schools.

Apr 16 • 11:24 PM EDT • Health • news.stonybrook.edu

Scientists Reveal Why Bread Can Cause Weight Gain Without Overeating

It's not just 'calories in, calories out'.

Apr 16 • 7:30 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com

Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories

Bread and other carbohydrate staples may be doing more than just filling plates—they could be quietly reshaping metabolism. In a surprising twist, researchers found that mice strongly preferred carbs like bread, rice, and wheat, abandoning their regular diet entirely. Even without eating more calories, they gained weight and body fat, not because they overate, but because their bodies burned less energy.

Apr 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Young sibling duo starts small bread making business

Our team stopped by the Youngstown Flea this afternoon and found 12-year-old Gloria, and her 10-year-old brother Israel running their own stall.

Apr 11 • 5:59 PM EDT • Business • wkbn.com

Young sibling duo starts small bread making business

Our team stopped by the Youngstown Flea this afternoon and found 12-year-old Gloria, and her 10-year-old brother Israel running their own stall.

Apr 11 • 5:59 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

Scientists Are Turning Bread into Fuel. It Could Revolutionize Manufacturing.

Bacteria and breadcrumbs could soon replace fossil fuels—and drastically lower harmful emissions.

Apr 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

Final session days put key Kentucky bills back in play

Kentucky lawmakers will gavel in April 14 for the last two days of the 2026 legislative session.

Apr 7 • 6:50 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com

The truth about rye bread – healthy choice or overhyped staple?

Rye isn’t for everyone. Here’s what it is, why it can be a nutritious choice and why moderation and ingredient quality still matter.

Apr 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

Chemists make hydrogen from breadcrumbs in groundbreaking reaction that could replace some fossil fuels

Chemists say they’ve found a way to turn breadcrumbs into hydrogen, potentially offering a sustainable alternative to one of the most common chemical manufacturing processes.

Apr 2 • 1:11 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com