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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its allies. This came as the US and its allies got ready to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and stop a bigger, more destructive conflict in the region. A senior Hezbollah commander was killed last week in Lebanon, and Hamas’s top political leader was killed in Iran. This comes after almost 10 months of war in Gaza. Iran and its allies have said they will attack Israel and blamed them. Hamas says that talks have begun about…

Some analysts on Wall Street are very pessimistic. They say that signs that the economy will slow even more and pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut rates faster will make defensive stocks shine and small caps fade. Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist, Mike Wilson, said that the rising unemployment rate on Friday joins other signs of a weakening job market, such as the hiring rate, the payrolls survey, the Conference Board’s employment trends index, and the employment gauges on both the ISM manufacturing and services sector. Wilson said, “For almost seven weeks, we have to wait for the…

Washington, D.C. On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign started a new website called “Republicans for Harris.” She wants to win over Republican voters who are turned off by Donald Trump’s campaign. According to Harris’ team, the program will be a “campaign within a campaign.” Well-known Republicans will use their networks to get people to vote, with a focus on primary voters who backed Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador. This week, events will be held in Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania to start the program. The campaign said that Republicans who support Harris will also be at rallies this week…

PARIS — Imane Khelif, an Olympic boxer, said that the hateful attention she has been getting because of misunderstandings about her gender “harms human dignity.” She also called for an end to bullying athletes because the backlash against her has had a big effect on her. In an interview with SNTV, a sports video partner of the Associated Press, on Sunday night, the Algerian athlete talked about her rough time at the Olympics. “I send a message to everyone in the world to respect the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter and to stop bullying all athletes,” Khelif said in…

The July jobs report just set off an important recession indicator that is closely watched on Wall Street. However, the person who made it doesn’t believe that the U.S. economy is in a recession at the moment. And Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, said the indicator doesn’t mean anything in particular. First, let’s look at the numbers: the unemployment rate hit 4.3% in July. The three-month moving average of the unemployment rate is at least 0.5 percentage points higher than the lowest three-month average from the previous year. As per the Sahm rule, when the level of…

This is SAINT-DENIS, France. Noah Lyles beat Kishane Thompson of Jamaica by.005 seconds to win the 100-meter race at the Olympics on Sunday. It took him about 30 seconds after the race was over to find out that he had won, making it one of the closest sprints in history. After Lyles, Thompson, and five others crossed the line, the word “Photo” appeared next to their names on the scoreboard. Lyles walked along the track with his arms around his head. Things finally got better. It took Lyles 9.784 seconds to beat the Jamaican by a tiny bit more than…

A lot of people think that McDonald’s Corp. could offer deals like the ones its restaurants in other countries do since their second-quarter earnings were not as good as expected. More specifically, McDonald’s can be found in Australia, Germany, and France. MCD 2.95% has released a platform called McSmart that has value choices. Like a McSmart meal, which has two sandwiches (burger and chicken) with fries and a drink. This is different from the $5 American McDonald’s value meal, which has a sandwich, four Chicken McNuggets, fries, and a drink. From social media posts like this one, it looks like…

An after-tax operating profit of $11.6 billion was made by Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B -0.80% in the second quarter. This was due to higher profits from selling insurance and more income from the company’s large cash reserves. During that time, the company bought back only $345 million worth of stock. This was one of the lowest quarterly totals seen in a number of years. In the first quarter of 2024, it was $2.6 billion, and in the fourth quarter of 2023, it was $2.2 billion. On June 30, Berkshire’s total cash rose to a record $277 billion, up from $189 billion…

This weekend, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with six possible running mates. Next week, she will make an official announcement and go on a fighting tour with her new running mate. Two people who know how Harris chose her candidates say that she plans to meet Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, and Tim Walz of Minnesota, as well as Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The people were given anonymity so they could talk about secret campaign discussions. Even though her selection process was cut short,…

Wednesday, Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, put a “heavy thumb” on the scale in favor of lowering interest rates as soon as the next policy meeting in September. When asked what would happen next, he didn’t say much. Author Johnathan Pingle, an economist at UBS, told MarketWatch, “There hasn’t been a lot of talk about what happens” after September. When the Fed met on Wednesday, its interest rate stayed the same, somewhere between 5.25% and 5.5%. Rates have been this high for a year. After the press meeting, economists said it looks like the rate will be…