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Yesterday

Oliver’s Produce, a small family-owned farm and market in upstate New York, sold 700 heads of lettuce last July. This July, as an outbreak of cyclosporiasis scared people off from leafy greens at chain restaurants and grocery stores, sales more than doubled, to 1,500 heads.
An inmate who escaped from the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Kalihi this morning was located and arrested tonight on military property by Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam police.
WASHINGTON >> Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said today that he had been discharged from a rehabilitation facility after a nearly eight-week medical absence, announcing in a statement that he would continue recovering at home as the Senate takes its scheduled August recess.
U.S. health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to Mexican jalapeno peppers that has sickened 345 people in 27 states, prompting supplier Coast Citrus Distributors to recall peppers sent to restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill and QDOBA.
WASHINGTON >> A Senate committee voted today to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former top U.S. infectious disease official refused to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aug 5, 2026

FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a Maui Police Department lieutenant who was suspended earlier this year after allegations that he covered for a New Year’s Eve party featuring illegal aerial fireworks.
An inmate who escaped from the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Kalihi this morning was located and arrested tonight on military property by Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam police.
NEW YORK >> The Dow closed at a record today on signs of progress for a peace deal with Iran, while the Nasdaq saw its first decline in five sessions as SpaceX and AMD stumbled following their quarterly earnings.
WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have obtained the highest-resolution images to date of our sun’s visible surface, observing swirling, vortex-like patterns in superheated solar gases reminiscent of the shapes depicted in the nocturnal sky in Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting “The Starry Night.”
WASHINGTON >> Jeanine Pirro had had it up to here with Doug Burgum. The famously voluble U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia strode into the Oval Office late Monday with her future on the line and the interior secretary, whom she privately called an incompetent liar, in her crosshairs.
The Democratic Party’s progressive wing scored a high-profile victory today when Abdul El-Sayed won the party’s U.S. Senate nomination in Michigan, giving its anti-establishment message a boost ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Aug 4, 2026

The CDC is expanding the ongoing cyclospora outbreak to 15 states, adding six more states to the outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, the Washington Post reported today, citing three individuals familiar with the investigation.
NEW YORK >> The S&P 500 and the Dow closed at record highs today, powered by the latest batch of earnings from artificial intelligence-related companies such as Caterpillar and Palantir that assuaged demand concerns, while crude prices and Treasury yields dropped on hopes for a deal in the Iran war.

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