The problem with creating an incredibly popular product is that your success will eventually attract competitors. And sometimes those competitors will pounce precisely when you’re at your weakest. Such is the case with Sriracha hot sauce maker Huy Fong Foods, which is locked in a battle with local officials in Irwindale, California over noxious chili odors allegedly emanating from its new factory there. There’s a lawsuit in the courts and even the possibility the factory could be declared a public nuisance, which could force it to shut down or relocate.

RICHMOND, Virginia — Richmond is poised to become the next battleground in the contentious debate over Confederate monuments in the US. The former capital of the Confederacy is home to some of the nation's largest and oldest monuments memorializing Confederate leaders, including Civil War Gens. Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson; Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis; and Confederate naval Cmdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury.

TIME July 16, 1965 12:00 AM GMT-4 A President signs many proclamations, Lyndon Johnson last week told his White House guests. Some of them are “of great significance.” Others, he continued in a monument to restraint, are of “somewhat lesser significance and import.” The President just wanted to make clear that he thought that the proclamation he was about to sign—designating next Sept. 13 as World Law Day—Was in the great-significance category.

Some successful horror auteurs spend their entire careers recycling the same tropes, but Mike Flanagan prefers to push himself. The creator of an annual fall miniseries for Netflix, along with an impressive list of big-screen chillers, he’s taken on the difficult tasks of adapting Stephen King in the features Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep; Shirley Jackson in his first TV show for the streamer, The Haunting of Hill House; and Henry James in the follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor.

IAN LANGSDON / EPA Laura Trott kisses her gold medal after winning the Women's Omnium race during the London 2012 Olympics on Aug. 7, 2012. It began in the Aquatics Center, the swimmers bending down at the starting blocks, the light from the pool bouncing off their glittering nails. At first it went unnoticed, but as the likes of Missy Franklin and Rebecca Adlington held up their medals for the camera, it was hard to miss.