The Little Debbie brand has been around since 1960, and for most of that time, things stayed pretty consistent: the same soft cakes, the same waxy chocolate coating, and the same boxes in the snack aisle that you’d walk by a hundred times without buying one. That has changed recently. There have been some quiet but noticeable changes at McKee Foods. The brand has been moving faster, releasing more products, and working with other brands in ways that make it seem less like a traditional snack company and more like one that is paying close attention to what’s going on…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
Broad Peak doesn’t make a fuss like some mountains do. It is in the Karakoram range of Pakistan and is 8,047 meters above sea level. It is the twelfth highest mountain in the world and is close enough to K2 that base camps share the same cold, glacial air. The name isn’t always the thing that gets people’s attention. But on July 30, 2026, Broad Peak became the most important mountain in the world, and it wasn’t for a record. That morning, during what looks like a push to the top, an avalanche hit somewhere between Camp II and Camp…
Millions of Americans do something that doesn’t make much sense anymore: they walk around their homes and reset their clocks, phones, microwaves, and car dashboards. In the process, they lose an hour of sleep in the spring and gain it back in the fall. Most of the time, they just wonder why this is still done in 2026. It looks like Donald Trump has been thinking the same thing. One of Trump’s more unusual policy goals this term has been to push for permanent daylight saving time. The biannual clock change was called “ridiculous, twice yearly production” by him on…
A Reddit thread keeps coming up. It was first posted on r/BoomersBeingFools years ago, and its main message is simple: “Not a problem, we refuse to take care of you.” It will be an old people’s home.” Every few months, it comes up again and gets hundreds of thousands of votes. Each time, millennials list their complaints in the comments, such as high housing prices, student loans, and a retirement system that worked great for one generation but quietly fell apart before the next one came along. It spread all over again in July. The timing wasn’t a mistake. This…
There is a certain type of Silicon Valley story that seems to write itself. A young genius leaves a prestigious school in a contentious situation. Puts out a manifesto. Hundreds of millions of dollars are raised. Becomes the person that everyone either looks up to or looks down on. Then it turns into a lesson that everyone talks about at cocktail parties after one bad week. That story is Leopold Aschenbrenner’s story, but it moved faster than most and has so many numbers that it’s hard to keep them all in your head. Aschenbrenner was born in Germany to parents…
The Schengen Area has always been based on the somewhat optimistic idea that 29 countries with very different histories, economies, and border exposures could share a border and still allow people to freely move between them. That was a good enough premise for most of the last 30 years. Then, on July 31, 2026, tens of thousands of people crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in a single day. This put more pressure on the idea than it had been in years. Italy was the first to move. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that Rome would end…
The line between Spain and Melilla has never been a quiet spot. It covers 12 kilometers and is located in North Africa, where Spain and Morocco meet. It has always had a strange, tense feel to it, with European law, African geography, and a fence system that goes three layers deep. The events of the last few hours of July 2026, however, went far beyond what that word can describe. Between 300 and 400 people came into Melilla illegally, which was bad enough for the Beni Enzar crossing to be closed. But the bigger surprise was happening next door in…
In late July, Grant Park fills up in a different way. The air along the lake gets thicker, the grass near the main stage turns to dirt, and Chicago stops feeling like a city and more like a place to visit. This is what Lollapalooza has done to the area since it moved here permanently in 2005, and the 2026 edition, which runs from July 30 to August 2, has the kind of lineup that makes the weekend feel like it’s really worth planning around. This year’s headliners are Charli XCX on Friday, Lorde on Thursday, Tate McRae on Sunday,…
NASA’s Curiosity rover rolled into a valley called Valle Grande on June 19 and 20, 2026. These were the 4,930th and 4,931st days of its mission on Mars. Inside, the science team found something that stopped them in their tracks. There were honeycomb-shaped cracks in the rusty Martian surface that went all the way across the ground in front of them. Each polygon was about 1.5 to 3 inches across. As far as Curiosity’s cameras could see, there were hundreds or even thousands of them, spread out like geometric wallpaper. “This sea of polygons took our breath away,” said Ashwin…
Finding out that about 1% of your genome belongs to someone scientists can’t quite name is a little unsettling, but in the best way possible. There are no known fossils. Not a face. No one has fully agreed on a species name. It was only a genetic signal, spread out in the human genome like graffiti from a culture that vanished before anyone could write it down. That’s pretty much what a new study that came out on July 30, 2026, in Science says. UC Berkeley researchers created a computer method called TRACE, which stands for “Tracking Archaic Contributions via…