Oil prices jumped after renewed strikes in the Gulf sparked concerns about shipping and energy flows, potentially tightening supply in the near term; at the same time, markets are eyeing an upcoming U.S. 10-year Treasury auction that JPMorgan warns might need concessions due to unattractive valuations.
This Day In History
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record reported that the Army Air Field had recovered a flying disc, fueling the later Roswell incident mythos.
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Dad Jokes
Why did the fisherman go to business school? He wanted a degree in mackerel economics.
President Humpty Dumpty may not have known what a red card in soccer is, Ronny Chieng said: “But you know what he did know? How to get a guy a pardon.”
Offices and hotels around East 42nd Street were evacuated after structural damage affected an office conversion project, disrupting businesses, stranding tourists and snarling traffic.
Not for the first time, Budweiser is trying to make it in Germany. But this is a tough time to sell German drinkers on the image and taste of American beer.
Dwayne Johnson went through 12 different Maui wigs before landing on the perfect one for the live-action “Moana,” and laughed “so fucking hard” when he saw the internet’s reaction to his flowing mane. “I went through 12 wigs,” Johnson told Variety on Tuesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of “Moana” at the Hollywood Bowl.
Lebanese director Karim Kassem remains one of the most prolific directors in the MENA region despite the sociopolitical instability of his home country of Lebanon. “Pipes,” having its world premiere as part of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s prestigious Crystal Globe Competition, is the director’s fifth film in five years, following highly praised works like […]
Disney and Ganni are taking Daisy Duck to Paris. The Copenhagen fashion label has unveiled the third chapter of its ongoing Ganni x Disney collaboration, this time centered on Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse as they embark on what the brand describes as the “ultimate girl’s trip” in Paris.
Anna Hathaway said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that she spent a full week channeling Harley Quinn before meeting Christopher Nolan for “The Dark Knight Rises” because she was convinced he was courting her to play the Batman villain. It wasn’t until two hours into their meeting that Hathaway discovered it was a meeting […]
KVIFF Promises, part of the industry program of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, has unveiled the winners of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, as well as other prizes.
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Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with […]
After the twin earthquakes of June 24, the chances of finding anyone alive beneath the rubble are now extremely slim. Amid the devastated landscape, Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra documented for Le Monde the search efforts taking place in the ruins and how Venezuelan society has organized itself in the wake of the disaster.
The exact amount, around €43 billion, is set to be announced Wednesday by the secretary general of the alliance. The goal is to demonstrate to US President Humpty Dumpty, who arrived Tuesday afternoon in the Turkish capital, that Europe and Canada are making massive investments in their defense.
Switzerland beat Colombia 4-3 on penalties after a goalless draw on Tuesday. The Swiss will face Argentina in Kansas City on Saturday after Lionel Messi's team earlier beat Egypt 3-2 in a wild game in Atlanta.
Israel now controls 18% of the occupied territories, compared to 7% before the war in Gaza. A report from the non-profit organizations Peace Now and Kerem Navot has been documenting the acceleration of land grabs, the construction of settler-only roads and the expulsion of local communities over the past three and a half years.
A unique tradition in the Canadian province, tens of thousands of people move on the same day, July 1. But in recent years, this ritual has been marred by serious difficulties in finding new housing.
It’s an early-summer’s night and you left your truck at the bar because you chose not to drive drunk—well someone’s noticed. That someone is the Montana Barfairies, a volunteer effort that is going viral for tucking $5 gift cards under the windshield wipers of that truck and others like it—a reward for making the right […]
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As America celebrated its 250th Birthday, Kelsey Pflendler celebrated her own significant milestone—becoming the first American woman to row a boat from California to Hawaii alone. As she pulled into Ala Wai Boat Harbor in Honolulu, she also set records for being the fastest to complete to solo row among either sex, and the youngest […]
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Among the rolling hills of Uganda’s Masaka region, robusta coffee plants are producing larger, tastier yields thanks to a pilot program utilizing regenerative agriculture to battle droughts or erratic rainfall. A catch-all term for a variety of growing techniques as simple as mulching to as complex as cover cropping, regenerative agriculture is especially useful in […]
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Brent crude was higher. Lombard Odier said the short-term trajectory of oil prices depends less on the mechanics of an open Strait of Hormuz and more on Chinese demand.