China's economy posts a record-low 4.3% as shoppers stop spending

World

China's growth hit one of its weakest rates ever while consumers default in record numbers; Venezuela's US-installed government opens talks with the opposition; and the US strikes Iran again.

Finance

Wholesale prices unexpectedly fell in June, easing fears of another rate rise and sending Big Tech higher.

Tech

While chipmakers post record profits and Microsoft ships a record pile of security patches, the biggest money in AI is moving toward a less glamorous prize — getting the models to actually work inside real companies.

Mind & body

A fever isn't your temperature control breaking.

Climate

With 838 wildfires burning nationwide, Toronto woke to some of the world's worst air and the haze is drifting south — a fire season that keeps feeding itself.

Space

Starship Flight 13 aims for orbit this evening carrying real satellites, while China and Japan race to copy the reusable-rocket trick SpaceX pioneered.

Biotech

For years a drug rejection was a private letter only the company saw.

Money

A marginal tax system charges each slice of your income at its own rate, so the headline rate on your top dollar is almost never the rate you pay overall — and a raise can never leave you worse off.

Sports

Why Victor Wembanyama and other young stars are signing for less than they could demand — plus a record NFL sale, Netflix's grab for baseball, and a UK move against gambling sponsors.

Gaming

Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on July 22, ending a five-year fight Epic started over Fortnite.

Food

Use of the H-2A seasonal-farmworker visa has jumped more than 500% in a decade, even as farmers, labor groups, and both parties call it broken.

Cyber

New survey data shows the share of ransomware break-ins that start with a software flaw fell by nearly half, while attacks that start with a stolen or guessed login now dominate — and even accounts with a second lock kept falling.