Alex Dobrenko

🏫 Since the start of the Covid pandemic, teachers and other school personnel across America have reported an increase in physical violence committed against them by students.

🖱🍩 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Monday, June 5th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🍩 The real story of National Donut Day starts all the way back in WWI and involves a group of volunteers named the "Donut Lassies." --> 

🥩📉 Someplace, somewhere, the Eat Mor Chikin cows are fist hoof pumping. Because US beef production is on track to drop by more than 2 billion pounds next year, its biggest annual decline since 1979, according to Agriculture Department data.

📉👶 Since 1972, the US fertility rate (aka the avg number of children per woman) has been at or below the level needed to maintain our current population in the long term – and 2022 was no different, per new CDC data.

🌎 About 9% of adults around the world identify as LGBTQ per a new global survey, Sweden is on the verge of becoming the first “smoke-free” European country, and more.

🔥 It’s Friday, June 2nd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📽️❌ Studios are pausing most book-to-screen adaptations amid the ongoing writer's strike in Hollywood →

🌈❌ The California State Assembly has passed a bill that would ban the sale of any food products containing certain chemical additives – which are found in Skittles, Nerds, Hot Tamales, Sour Patch Kids, and Starbursts.

🌎 A priceless 16th-century painting stolen by Nazi Germany in WWII has been returned to Poland, India is eliminating all public school lessons on evolution and the periodic table, and more.

🏛️🛸 A newly-formed NASA committee in charge of investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs, held its first public hearing yesterday.

🔥 It’s Thursday, June 1st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏈📺 TV's most-watched programs of the 2022-2023 season are...the NFL on Sunday night, Yellowstone, and the NFL on Monday night --> 

🎓 This spring, the number of US students attending college across all sectors fell for the tenth consecutive year, per a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

🌎 Moscow was attacked by drones yesterday morning, the Gloucester Cheese Roll (where a group of contestants chasing after a wheel of cheese as it rolls down a steep hill) took place, and more.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, May 31st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📺 Succession aired its series finale on Sunday; a look back at the show's success (get it??); don't worry, no spoilers here, we promise -->

🌎 A beluga whale previously suspected of spying for Russia resurfaced near Sweden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, and more.

🤝 On Saturday, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement on legislation that would raise the federal debt ceiling to avoid an impending default on US government debt.