Hisense has revealed a dual-display e-ink phone called Hisense A10. The secondary screen is magnetically attached, allowing users to snap it on or off whenever needed. The phone is expected to be priced around 3999 yuan (approximately Rs 56,500) in China.
On July 1, 2025, CDC quietly cut the list of pathogens states are required to report from eight down to two. According to CDC’s own surveillance page, 843 people across 32 states had been sickened by Cyclospora since May 1 as of July 9. Michigan reported more than 1,500 cases by July 10.
There is an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite in the U.S. that has sickened more than 3,000 people. The CDC will no longer track infections caused by cyclospora and five other common foodborne illnesses from July 1, 2025. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service staffing dropped by 25% and half of the area veterinarians retired or resigned. The New World Screwworm continues to spread in Central America.
Some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Party uses local associations and chambers of commerce abroad as intermediaries to exert pressure on business interests in China. The United Front Work Department has come close to monopolizing traditional Chinese-language media and WeChat groups overseas. Taiwan's National Security Bureau has identified two core goals behind the Party's cognitive warfare targeting Chinese Americans. Trump marked America’s 250th anniversary with blunt warnings about communism.
U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico have moved in opposite directions. Canada's total exports in the first quarter of 2026 fell roughly $5 billion below the 2022-2024 average. Mexico's exports in 2026 rose sharply. Canada placed retaliatory tariffs on a range of American goods in early 2025 and kept them in place even after dropping most of the other counter-tariffs. Mexico moved in the opposite direction with agriculture increasing by 0.7% and industrial goods by 13.1%.
The Yampa River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in the American west. It supplies water to more than 40 million people across seven states, dozens of tribes and parts of Mexico. The basin irrigates more than 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares) of farmland, fuels an estimated $1.4tn in economic activity, and provides critical habitat for more than 150 threatened or endangered species. The Colorado River is dangerously overdrawn and enormous cuts are needed to bring the basin back from the brink.
Biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner discovered that 14% of seagulls nesting on the Channel Islands were female. Their research was published in 1972, but it took five years to be published due to the controversial subject matter. In 1977, the LGBTQ rights movement was facing major opposition, especially in regard to equitable housing. Anita Bryant had successfully repealed an ordinance in Dade County, Florida that protected same-sex couples from housing discrimination.
Investment in data centers to power artificial intelligence is pushing up prices for memory chips, computer processors and electricity. It's the latest in a series of waves that have boosted inflation. Apple is raising prices for laptops and iPads by about 15% to 25%. Microsoft announced that the price of its Xbox video game console will increase $100 by Aug. 1.
The US and Iran exchanged fresh strikes overnight into Monday as they continued their tit-for-tat attacks. US Central Command said American forces carried out a new round of attacks to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated Monday with attacks on US allies in the Persian Gulf and beyond, targeting US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Patricia Evangelista is an investigative journalist for the Filipino news website Rappler. She is the author of Some People Need Killing (2023), a memoir about her time reporting on the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines. The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Netherlands, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
Salima Kitwana's son Hemedi disappeared after the disputed 2025 elections in Tanzania and the violent crackdown that followed. Hundreds of families across Tanzania are still searching for answers after post-election violence that officials say left 518 people dead. The European Parliament moved to block the proposed disbursement of a 156-million-euro development package for Tanzania’s 2026 cooperation programme.
Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is the oldest person to be executed in Florida's death chamber in modern times. Dominick Anthony Occhicone, 80, has spent nearly four decades on death row after being sentenced in the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986. He is scheduled to die on July 28. Dennis Sochor, convicted of killing 18-year-old Patricia Gifford just hours into 1982, would be a week older if his execution is carried out on Tuesday.
Enrique is a high-level co-ordinator in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. He explains how ingredients to make the deadly drug fentanyl are shipped thousands of miles from Chinese factories to laboratories in Mexico. Enrique credits Brother Wang with establishing this supply chain. Brother Wang is a 39-year-old Chinese national whose real name is Zhang Zhidong.
On July 1 and 2, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hit a Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) camp near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region with two ballistic missiles and two drones. The operations followed at least four reported clashes between Iranian forces and Kurdish dissident armed groups in Mahabad, Saravan and Paveh. Five IRGC members were killed during the fighting on June 29 and 30, while six fighters from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan were killed on July 1, and four men from another Kurdish group, PJAK, died on June 30. The tensions come against the backdrop of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Norway revoked export approval for a missile system intended for the Royal Malaysian Navy's Littoral Combat Ships. Malaysia considers the cancellation of the export license as an unexpected breach of trust. Malaysia's navy needs modernization. The 13th Malaysia Plan may decide whether Malaysia can accelerate naval modernization or remain trapped in prolonged procurement uncertainty. Türkiye has developed an indigenous naval industry.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died on Sunday. He is remembered as a staunch defender of Palestinian rights. He was the first Arab leader to break the siege on Gaza. He visited the Gaza Strip in October 2012, six years after Israel imposed its crippling international blockade on the territory following the 2006 Palestinian elections. Sheikh Hamad announced an increase in Qatar’s reconstruction grant to the enclave from $254m to $400m.
The U.S. government abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026. Since then, the Trump administration has used carrots and sticks to cajole Maduro's government to support its aims. In the early 19th century, the South American revolutionary Francisco de Miranda visited New York on a charm offensive to meet with leading statesmen, including President Thomas Jefferson. Miranda had spent over two decades courting allies in the US in support of South American republicanism. Alexander Hamilton was one of Miranda's most influential advocates.
The Trump administration published the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions last week. The agenda details all the proposed rules and rescissions under consideration by the current administration. It also includes a new policy on corporate poultry processors, who are among Trump's largest political donors. Pilgrim's Pride, the nation's second-largest poultry processor, donated $5 million to President Trump's 2025 inauguration. Ronald Cameron, the owner and chairman of Mountaire Farms, the fourth-largest processor, has donated $1 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's main Super PAC, and $2 million to Preserve America. In February 2024, an Agriculture Department rule required poultry processors to provide more
Falling fertility rates threaten long-term energy demand, according to Wood Mackenzie. The global fertility rate fell to 2.2 births per woman in 2025, which is dangerously close to the 2.1 replacement ratio needed to keep the population stable. The United Nations projects global population will rise from 8.2 billion in 2025 to 10.0 billion in 2060.
A Chinese shipyard has designed a floating, nuclear-powered logistics hub that acts as a container terminal, power station, and green-fuel factory far out at sea. The concept was unveiled at the Posidonia exhibition in Athens. Decarbonisation needs rapid emission cuts, and tweaks will hardly cut it. There is no international rulebook for this innovative concept. Port states and the IMO should designate sovereign-neutral sandboxes in deepwater zones.
The Strait of Hormuz is raising costs without a complete closure. Government and refiners are buying strategic reserves for storage. Traders value physical availability over theoretical production capacity. The next Oil bull market may not begin with a dramatic production collapse or a sudden supply emergency. It could begin quietly through government tenders, refinery purchases and commercial inventory rebuilds.
DATALAND is the world's first A.I. museum, recently opened in L.A. by Refik Anadol. It's located on Grand Avenue across the street from the late architect’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and covers about 35,000 square feet. Visitors descend an escalator to a massive space with 720 million pixels swimming with imagery inspired by the Yawanawá rainforest of the Amazon.
The United States has conducted a new wave of strikes against Iran, prompting retaliatory attacks by Iranian forces across the Gulf region. Iran's IRGC says it attacked sites linked to the US military in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman after latest US bombardment. The Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Washington and Tehran in mid-June extended an April ceasefire and began to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Bessemer, Alabama, released a non-disclosure agreement between city leaders and developers of a hyperscale data center. Environmental groups threatened to sue the city over its refusal to share public documents related to the proposed construction of a 4.5 million-square-foot data center on the rural southwest edge of the city of 25,000. The agreement requires city officials to destroy all copies of information the developer considers confidential.
Eli Blackmon, now 13, was 11 when he saw videos on TikTok showing people putting NeeDoh squishy toys in the microwave in order to soften them. The hot gel caused third-degree burns on the boy’s neck and chest. He had weekly visits with the burn unit for four months. The family also faced thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills, doctor bills and wound care supplies.
A ballot measure could amend the Colorado Constitution to enshrine fossil fuel companies’ right to sell methane gas. The broad language of the measure makes it difficult to predict how state agencies would implement it if it passes. Many people worry the amendment would endanger Colorado's ability to reach its climate goals.
Marilyn Shuler has worked as a utilization review nurse for 39 years at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx in New York City. She and 12 other nurses were laid off on Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software. The layoffs come in the wake of a massive nurses strike across several New York hospitals in January 2026.
Masoud Andarabi is the former interior minister of Afghanistan and the former acting director of the National Directorate of Security. He and Tushar Shetty discuss the international re-engagement of the Taliban regime and what it means for the regional order. They discuss the distinction between the Taliban’s consolidated control and its absent legitimacy, the geopolitical logic behind Russia's recognition, China's Digital Silk Road and the surveillance infrastructure embedded in Afghanistan.
97% of construction companies lack real-time visibility into their tools, materials and equipment, even with asset management systems in place. Majority of respondents feel at least “somewhat confident” in their organization’s ability to make data-driven asset decisions, but only 2% rely on detailed data.
Kristine Fifer's son, Eddie, has cerebral palsy, feeding tube, and other medical conditions. He didn't qualify for around-the-clock nursing care. Fifer spiraled as she sought to pay for the care. She lost her job, took on heaps of debt, and eventually called a lawyer about filing for bankruptcy.
During the World Cup, bets worth a billion euros will be made in Germany. 300 to 400 million of that money will flow to illegal providers. There are many losers in the betting business for a variety of reasons. It also affects bettors and clubs.
Radiation therapy is used in more than half of cancer cases in the U.S. It's one of the most commonly used cancer treatments. More than 50 million Americans live in counties without a radiation oncology practice site. Rural communities are most at risk of losing access to radiation therapy.
The Social Security Trust Fund will be depleted in the fourth quarter of 2032, three months earlier than expected last year. The main retirement trust fund will run out of money in late 2032. That could put pressure on Treasury yields, impacting borrowing costs and mortgage rates. 30-year mortgage rates could rise from roughly today's 6.3 percent range to 9 percent.
Ukrainian attacks have affected more than half of Russia's refining capacity since the start of May. Ukrainian forces have carried out about 50 attacks on Russia's fuel-producing facilities in the past 100 days. The drop in production has prompted a ban on most diesel exports to the end of July and restrictions on gasoline and jet fuel shipments introduced earlier.
Blaze broke out in the Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris on Sunday afternoon. It has spread to about 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of forest and is still spreading early on Monday morning. It blocked the A6 highway and disrupted key train lines. The Paris region remains under the highest heatwave alert. Since the start of the summer, 44 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting forest fires.
A Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase a man hiding behind a parked car. It was one of four drones that followed him across the city in one hour, following him through traffic and following him as he exited the car and ran into an apartment complex. He was tackled by police as half a dozen more police arrived on the scene. The footage was accidentally uploaded to the open internet via Skydia's website. Security researchers Sam Curry and Maik Robert discovered it and shared it with WIRED.
Hisense has revealed a dual-display e-ink phone called Hisense A10. The secondary screen is magnetically attached, allowing users to snap it on or off whenever needed. The phone is expected to be priced around 3999 yuan (approximately Rs 56,500) in China.
On July 1, 2025, CDC quietly cut the list of pathogens states are required to report from eight down to two. According to CDC’s own surveillance page, 843 people across 32 states had been sickened by Cyclospora since May 1 as of July 9. Michigan reported more than 1,500 cases by July 10.
There is an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite in the U.S. that has sickened more than 3,000 people. The CDC will no longer track infections caused by cyclospora and five other common foodborne illnesses from July 1, 2025. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service staffing dropped by 25% and half of the area veterinarians retired or resigned. The New World Screwworm continues to spread in Central America.
Some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Party uses local associations and chambers of commerce abroad as intermediaries to exert pressure on business interests in China. The United Front Work Department has come close to monopolizing traditional Chinese-language media and WeChat groups overseas. Taiwan's National Security Bureau has identified two core goals behind the Party's cognitive warfare targeting Chinese Americans. Trump marked America’s 250th anniversary with blunt warnings about communism.
U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico have moved in opposite directions. Canada's total exports in the first quarter of 2026 fell roughly $5 billion below the 2022-2024 average. Mexico's exports in 2026 rose sharply. Canada placed retaliatory tariffs on a range of American goods in early 2025 and kept them in place even after dropping most of the other counter-tariffs. Mexico moved in the opposite direction with agriculture increasing by 0.7% and industrial goods by 13.1%.
The Yampa River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in the American west. It supplies water to more than 40 million people across seven states, dozens of tribes and parts of Mexico. The basin irrigates more than 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares) of farmland, fuels an estimated $1.4tn in economic activity, and provides critical habitat for more than 150 threatened or endangered species. The Colorado River is dangerously overdrawn and enormous cuts are needed to bring the basin back from the brink.
Biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner discovered that 14% of seagulls nesting on the Channel Islands were female. Their research was published in 1972, but it took five years to be published due to the controversial subject matter. In 1977, the LGBTQ rights movement was facing major opposition, especially in regard to equitable housing. Anita Bryant had successfully repealed an ordinance in Dade County, Florida that protected same-sex couples from housing discrimination.
Investment in data centers to power artificial intelligence is pushing up prices for memory chips, computer processors and electricity. It's the latest in a series of waves that have boosted inflation. Apple is raising prices for laptops and iPads by about 15% to 25%. Microsoft announced that the price of its Xbox video game console will increase $100 by Aug. 1.
The US and Iran exchanged fresh strikes overnight into Monday as they continued their tit-for-tat attacks. US Central Command said American forces carried out a new round of attacks to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated Monday with attacks on US allies in the Persian Gulf and beyond, targeting US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Patricia Evangelista is an investigative journalist for the Filipino news website Rappler. She is the author of Some People Need Killing (2023), a memoir about her time reporting on the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines. The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Netherlands, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
Salima Kitwana's son Hemedi disappeared after the disputed 2025 elections in Tanzania and the violent crackdown that followed. Hundreds of families across Tanzania are still searching for answers after post-election violence that officials say left 518 people dead. The European Parliament moved to block the proposed disbursement of a 156-million-euro development package for Tanzania’s 2026 cooperation programme.
Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is the oldest person to be executed in Florida's death chamber in modern times. Dominick Anthony Occhicone, 80, has spent nearly four decades on death row after being sentenced in the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986. He is scheduled to die on July 28. Dennis Sochor, convicted of killing 18-year-old Patricia Gifford just hours into 1982, would be a week older if his execution is carried out on Tuesday.
Enrique is a high-level co-ordinator in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. He explains how ingredients to make the deadly drug fentanyl are shipped thousands of miles from Chinese factories to laboratories in Mexico. Enrique credits Brother Wang with establishing this supply chain. Brother Wang is a 39-year-old Chinese national whose real name is Zhang Zhidong.
On July 1 and 2, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hit a Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) camp near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region with two ballistic missiles and two drones. The operations followed at least four reported clashes between Iranian forces and Kurdish dissident armed groups in Mahabad, Saravan and Paveh. Five IRGC members were killed during the fighting on June 29 and 30, while six fighters from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan were killed on July 1, and four men from another Kurdish group, PJAK, died on June 30. The tensions come against the backdrop of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Norway revoked export approval for a missile system intended for the Royal Malaysian Navy's Littoral Combat Ships. Malaysia considers the cancellation of the export license as an unexpected breach of trust. Malaysia's navy needs modernization. The 13th Malaysia Plan may decide whether Malaysia can accelerate naval modernization or remain trapped in prolonged procurement uncertainty. Türkiye has developed an indigenous naval industry.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died on Sunday. He is remembered as a staunch defender of Palestinian rights. He was the first Arab leader to break the siege on Gaza. He visited the Gaza Strip in October 2012, six years after Israel imposed its crippling international blockade on the territory following the 2006 Palestinian elections. Sheikh Hamad announced an increase in Qatar’s reconstruction grant to the enclave from $254m to $400m.
The U.S. government abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026. Since then, the Trump administration has used carrots and sticks to cajole Maduro's government to support its aims. In the early 19th century, the South American revolutionary Francisco de Miranda visited New York on a charm offensive to meet with leading statesmen, including President Thomas Jefferson. Miranda had spent over two decades courting allies in the US in support of South American republicanism. Alexander Hamilton was one of Miranda's most influential advocates.
The Trump administration published the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions last week. The agenda details all the proposed rules and rescissions under consideration by the current administration. It also includes a new policy on corporate poultry processors, who are among Trump's largest political donors. Pilgrim's Pride, the nation's second-largest poultry processor, donated $5 million to President Trump's 2025 inauguration. Ronald Cameron, the owner and chairman of Mountaire Farms, the fourth-largest processor, has donated $1 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's main Super PAC, and $2 million to Preserve America. In February 2024, an Agriculture Department rule required poultry processors to provide more
Falling fertility rates threaten long-term energy demand, according to Wood Mackenzie. The global fertility rate fell to 2.2 births per woman in 2025, which is dangerously close to the 2.1 replacement ratio needed to keep the population stable. The United Nations projects global population will rise from 8.2 billion in 2025 to 10.0 billion in 2060.
A Chinese shipyard has designed a floating, nuclear-powered logistics hub that acts as a container terminal, power station, and green-fuel factory far out at sea. The concept was unveiled at the Posidonia exhibition in Athens. Decarbonisation needs rapid emission cuts, and tweaks will hardly cut it. There is no international rulebook for this innovative concept. Port states and the IMO should designate sovereign-neutral sandboxes in deepwater zones.
The Strait of Hormuz is raising costs without a complete closure. Government and refiners are buying strategic reserves for storage. Traders value physical availability over theoretical production capacity. The next Oil bull market may not begin with a dramatic production collapse or a sudden supply emergency. It could begin quietly through government tenders, refinery purchases and commercial inventory rebuilds.
DATALAND is the world's first A.I. museum, recently opened in L.A. by Refik Anadol. It's located on Grand Avenue across the street from the late architect’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and covers about 35,000 square feet. Visitors descend an escalator to a massive space with 720 million pixels swimming with imagery inspired by the Yawanawá rainforest of the Amazon.
The United States has conducted a new wave of strikes against Iran, prompting retaliatory attacks by Iranian forces across the Gulf region. Iran's IRGC says it attacked sites linked to the US military in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman after latest US bombardment. The Memorandum of Understanding agreed by Washington and Tehran in mid-June extended an April ceasefire and began to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Bessemer, Alabama, released a non-disclosure agreement between city leaders and developers of a hyperscale data center. Environmental groups threatened to sue the city over its refusal to share public documents related to the proposed construction of a 4.5 million-square-foot data center on the rural southwest edge of the city of 25,000. The agreement requires city officials to destroy all copies of information the developer considers confidential.
Eli Blackmon, now 13, was 11 when he saw videos on TikTok showing people putting NeeDoh squishy toys in the microwave in order to soften them. The hot gel caused third-degree burns on the boy’s neck and chest. He had weekly visits with the burn unit for four months. The family also faced thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills, doctor bills and wound care supplies.
A ballot measure could amend the Colorado Constitution to enshrine fossil fuel companies’ right to sell methane gas. The broad language of the measure makes it difficult to predict how state agencies would implement it if it passes. Many people worry the amendment would endanger Colorado's ability to reach its climate goals.
Marilyn Shuler has worked as a utilization review nurse for 39 years at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx in New York City. She and 12 other nurses were laid off on Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software. The layoffs come in the wake of a massive nurses strike across several New York hospitals in January 2026.
Masoud Andarabi is the former interior minister of Afghanistan and the former acting director of the National Directorate of Security. He and Tushar Shetty discuss the international re-engagement of the Taliban regime and what it means for the regional order. They discuss the distinction between the Taliban’s consolidated control and its absent legitimacy, the geopolitical logic behind Russia's recognition, China's Digital Silk Road and the surveillance infrastructure embedded in Afghanistan.
97% of construction companies lack real-time visibility into their tools, materials and equipment, even with asset management systems in place. Majority of respondents feel at least “somewhat confident” in their organization’s ability to make data-driven asset decisions, but only 2% rely on detailed data.
Kristine Fifer's son, Eddie, has cerebral palsy, feeding tube, and other medical conditions. He didn't qualify for around-the-clock nursing care. Fifer spiraled as she sought to pay for the care. She lost her job, took on heaps of debt, and eventually called a lawyer about filing for bankruptcy.
During the World Cup, bets worth a billion euros will be made in Germany. 300 to 400 million of that money will flow to illegal providers. There are many losers in the betting business for a variety of reasons. It also affects bettors and clubs.
Radiation therapy is used in more than half of cancer cases in the U.S. It's one of the most commonly used cancer treatments. More than 50 million Americans live in counties without a radiation oncology practice site. Rural communities are most at risk of losing access to radiation therapy.
The Social Security Trust Fund will be depleted in the fourth quarter of 2032, three months earlier than expected last year. The main retirement trust fund will run out of money in late 2032. That could put pressure on Treasury yields, impacting borrowing costs and mortgage rates. 30-year mortgage rates could rise from roughly today's 6.3 percent range to 9 percent.
Ukrainian attacks have affected more than half of Russia's refining capacity since the start of May. Ukrainian forces have carried out about 50 attacks on Russia's fuel-producing facilities in the past 100 days. The drop in production has prompted a ban on most diesel exports to the end of July and restrictions on gasoline and jet fuel shipments introduced earlier.
Blaze broke out in the Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris on Sunday afternoon. It has spread to about 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of forest and is still spreading early on Monday morning. It blocked the A6 highway and disrupted key train lines. The Paris region remains under the highest heatwave alert. Since the start of the summer, 44 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting forest fires.
A Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase a man hiding behind a parked car. It was one of four drones that followed him across the city in one hour, following him through traffic and following him as he exited the car and ran into an apartment complex. He was tackled by police as half a dozen more police arrived on the scene. The footage was accidentally uploaded to the open internet via Skydia's website. Security researchers Sam Curry and Maik Robert discovered it and shared it with WIRED.