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Gross domestic product grew at a slower rate in the second quarter and persistent price pressures are unsettling financial markets.
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Apple earnings live updates: iPhone, AI and Tim Cook's final CEO call CNBCApple beats Q3 estimates on strong iPhone sales, but China, Services come up short Yahoo! Finance CanadaApple's Profit Increases 27 Percent, Topping Wall Street Expectations The New York TimesApple revenue, profits beat expectations on iPhone, Mac sales Reuters
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Prospects who could be dealt by the Trade Deadline -- one for each team MLB.comMLB trade deadline rumors: Yankees need OF help, Tarik Skubal watch is on AOL.com5 MLB Trade Predictions Involving Braves, Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, and Brewers Ahead of Monday's Deadline heavy.comFive MLB teams that will be most aggressive at trade deadline Tulsa World
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The restaurant company provided no update on the cyclospora outbreak tied to Taco Bell restaurants is affecting its business.
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Kevin M. Warsh has made controlling inflation the top priority of his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. But his hesitancy to embrace the possibility of higher borrowing costs has sparked a backlash.
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FIFA has faced backlash from global soccer governing bodies over the proposal to allow private investment.
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Three-quarters of Americans think Trump isn't focusing on top US issues - poll The GuardianAs Trump's approval rating reaches embarrassing depths, the GOP faces a difficult choice MS NOWJuly 29, 2026 Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson | SubstackFrom bad to worse for Trump and his base CNNTrump Is Absolutely Flailing in High-Quality Polls New York Magazine
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Topic: FuturismInventionsPeople love and hate Daylight Savings Time. Or more to the point, they hate the transition to and from it, particularly the spring one where you get 1 hour less sleep. It's even been tracked that traffic accidents go up after this shift.
There's a virtue to DST, though. We've become a night culture, and many of us get up well after sunrise and stay up well into dark, wasting hours of daylight every day. DST reduces that, though if you start the day too soon, you are rising and commuting in darkness. In the "energy crisis" they made year-round DST and many complained their kids were going to school in the dark. Of course, you can just resolve to get up earlier, or later, as you like, and control your own day, but many people must work on dictated schedules, and everybody wants to be in sync with those around them.
In the era before clocks, people tended to wake around sunrise each day. Indeed, the dawn twilight is what woke them up. Then they stayed up for 16 hours. In summer, it was 16 hours of day. In winter, they would get what daylight there was, then stay up into the night. Each day, they got up with the sun, arising at a different time, a few minutes earlier than before from December to June, a few minutes later the other half of the year. This is the natural clock that we evolved to, and is probably best for us.
Japan
Before contact with the west, Japan used a very different system. The day was divided into 12 "hours" or
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Shell's profits for this quarter doubled year on year, as multinational energy companies enjoy a windfall as a result of soaring gas prices since the Iran war.
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