The 5-and-20 rule on Nutrition Facts labels, and what it means for added sugars
The percent Daily Value on every food label runs on one FDA formula and one rule of thumb — here's how the math works, and where added sugars fit into it.
Newsroom
From Wall Street to the red carpet — the 140 publications of the VUGA Enterprises Network cover the stories millions of readers follow every day, across finance, fashion, health, entertainment and beyond. This is the network's collective pulse, refreshed around the clock. Every headline opens the full story at its source.
Page 102 of 112 · Updated 9 Oct 2026, 06:23 UTC
How Much Protein Do You Actually Need? What the Research Says
The government's protein number is easy to find and easy to misread. Here's what the official RDA actually covers, where the acceptable range goes much higher, and what the evidence does not settle.
Can Mindfulness Meditation Improve Your Workouts? What the Research Shows
Mindfulness training shows real gains in focus and pre-training anxiety in the research — here's what a 2024 meta-analysis and a 2025 umbrella review actually found, and where the evidence runs thin.
What grain basis measures, and why it swings by region
Basis is the cash price minus the futures price, and it moved sharply in 2024-2025 — here is what sets it and how to read it.
What the European Accessibility Act Means for Your Ebooks
A 2019 EU law now requires many digital products, including ebooks, to be accessible by design. Here's what indie authors and small publishers actually need to do.
How the 12-Team Playoff Actually Decides Who Gets In
Five automatic bids, thirteen committee members, and a seven-round secret ballot — here's the real mechanics behind the bracket fans argue about every December.
What a federal detention hearing is, and how judges decide
Under the Bail Reform Act, release is the default and detention is what the government must argue for — here is the sequence, the burdens of proof, and what the federal data show about who is held.
Why Literary Agents Never Charge to Read Your Manuscript
The field's own ethics code bans reading fees outright — here's what agents can charge for, and what a query actually needs to work.
Downtown Miami’s Freedom Tower Reopens as a Museum of Cuban History
Miami Dade College finished a $25 million restoration of the 1925 landmark on Biscayne Boulevard, reopening it in 2025 as a museum built around the building’s role processing Cuban refugees.
How Comic Book Grading Works: The 10-Point Scale, Page Quality, and Slab Labels
A grade is a description of a physical object, not a verdict on value: how certification services measure condition, paper and restoration, and what their own disclaimers decline to certify.
How Proof-of-Reserves Audits Actually Verify What an Exchange Holds
Merkle-tree attestations can show an exchange controls the coins it claims to hold, but the same reports say nothing about its liabilities or the quality of its other assets.
How to tell when it's time to toss your mascara
Mascara has the shortest safe shelf life of any makeup product, and the FDA's own guidance explains why the two-to-four-month window matters more than it looks.
What “Hypoallergenic” and “Non-Comedogenic” Actually Mean on a Beauty Label
The FDA does not define either term, and the ingredient list stops ranking at 1 percent. A guide to which parts of a beauty label carry a standard behind them and which are a brand's own claim.
How an Emerging NYC Artist Gets Free Materials From the City
Materials for the Arts runs a free warehouse in Long Island City stocked with donated fabric, paint, and furniture — here's who actually qualifies to shop it, and how an artist without a nonprofit gets in.
How to Push Ilford HP5 Plus to 1600 Without Ruining It
The film's own development chart says EI 1600 is well within reach. Here's how to meter, shoot, and develop for it without losing your shadows.
How Backcountry Permit Lotteries Actually Work
From preseason draws to daily walk-up odds, here's the mechanics behind the lottery systems that decide who gets to hike the country's most sought-after trails.
How States Decide Who Draws Congressional District Lines
The Constitution hands redistricting to state legislatures, but 18 states now route some or all of the job through a commission instead.
The 45-Day and 180-Day Rules That Govern a 1031 Exchange
A century-old tax provision lets real estate investors defer capital gains by swapping one investment property for another. Two federal deadlines decide whether the deferral holds.
What a fund's expense ratio is, and how to find yours
It never shows up on your statement, but it is taken every year. Here is what the percentage covers, what it costs in dollars, and where the number is disclosed.
Who pays for Rockland County's public libraries?
Rockland's 17 chartered libraries are funded four different ways, and which one applies to you decides whether you ever get a ballot.
Developing Countries' Debt Payments Hit A 50-Year High
Low- and middle-income nations paid $741 billion more in debt service than they received in new financing from 2022 to 2024, the widest such gap in five decades, World Bank data show.
How Ballot Curing Turns a Rejected Signature Into a Counted Vote
A mismatched or missing signature doesn't end a mail ballot's chances. Election offices flag it, notify the voter, and give them a fixed window to fix it — a process with its own deadlines, tiers of review, and paper trail.
How the buyer's premium works at Christie's and Sotheby's
A guide to the tiered fee added atop every winning bid at New York's two largest auction houses, and why both have raised it since 2025.
Kindergarten Vaccine Exemptions Reached a Record High for 2025-2026, CDC Data Show
New federal data show a rising share of incoming kindergartners entered school this year without required vaccinations, as measles activity climbs nationwide.
How Does Risograph Printing Actually Work?
A layered, one-colour-at-a-time process that turns a stencil and a spinning drum into the grainy, glowing prints illustrators can't stop making.
The VUGA Enterprises Newsroom aggregates headlines and short excerpts from the newspapers and magazines of the VUGA Enterprises Network. Every headline links to the full story on the publishing site. Part of the VUGA Network.