Certain RSS Feeds no longer parsing correctly?

[private_ale]

For the past year my forum has been posting CNN RSS feeds into our news room and for the most part it's worked out good, but as of recently they just do not correctly parse the links in the feeds.

To be specific, this is the feed link I have been using: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
Normally it would generate the normal output, however recently they only output the following:
Obama administration officials say relatives of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab flew to the U.S. and helped get him talking to investigators, giving them valuable intelligence.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:yIl2AUoC8 zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:7Q72WNTAK BA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:V_sGLiPBp WU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:V_sGLiPBp WU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:qj6IDK7rI Ts"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:gIN9vFwOq vQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=PqeGLR5Zx9g:W2iUBmoEDFY:gIN9vFwOq vQ" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/PqeGLR5Zx9g" height="1" width="1"/
Normally my first instinct would be to disable hooks, which I did, unfortunately to no avail.
This has just recently started, in fact, the last successful feed was approx. 5 days ago. No changes have been made to the forum in the last 5 days (or even the last two weeks for that matter).

Does anyone have an opinion or recommendation, running latest 3.8.4PL2

[Digital Jedi]

I did a quick demo of this feed and it previews fine, but it looks like this when I turn Convert HTML to BB Code off.

[private_ale]

Hi,

Thank you for answering.
Unfortunately this does not solve the problem, as even when disabling it from being converted to bbcode it fails to properly post.

Just as a test I locally installed a fresh copy of vb3.8.4PL2 and when adding the feed the problem presented itself again, so at least I know it's not my install :)

Any other ideas/opinions/thoughts?

Much appreciated.

[Digital Jedi]

If should properly preview if you set that setting to Yes. It looks like the very first HTML bracket "<" is being stripped out for some reason. Can you think of any reason why it would be doing that, even in an Admin CP preview?