Reclamation's two official August 24-Month Studies disagree about the 1,010 ft trigger. The 6.0 maf run bottoms at 1,005.63 ft, the 7.0 maf run at 1,013.92 ft
Reclamation published the August 2026 24-Month Study as two simultaneous official reports. The 6.0 maf Lake Powell run puts Lake Mead at 1,005.63 ft in July 2027, below the 1,010 ft consultation trigger written into the new 2027-2028 guidelines; the 7.0 maf run bottoms at 1,013.92 ft and stays clear.
Thailand's planning agency has now forecast the 2026 current account four times: +$14.0bn, +$14.5bn, +$6.2bn, −$7.4bn. Its August outlook still has no paragraph on imports
NESDC has published four forecasts of Thailand's 2026 current account since November: +$14.0bn, +$14.5bn, +$6.2bn, −$7.4bn. The $21.4bn reversal is entirely the goods balance — imports revised up $67.9bn since February — and the August outlook's growth components stop at exports.
India's new GDP series made the economy ₹8.6 lakh crore smaller. To get there it moved ₹34.5 lakh crore between industries
MoSPI's back series isn't due until December 2026, so until then the ministry's own API serves two accounts of 2025-26 side by side. The gap between them is not one number going down. It is four large numbers going in opposite directions.
We reported 4,105 on Japan's worst heatstroke day. The final count is 4,134 — the fifth July running that the fire agency's first number came in low
Japan heatstroke correction: The Fold published 4,105 ambulance transports for 22 July. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency finalised the month on Tuesday at 4,134, with twelve deaths rather than nine and 755 workplace calls rather than 744.
The trade court is having its second-heaviest year since 1999, not its heaviest. And our own July count of the 2020 wave was 220 cases short
The Court of International Trade has docketed 4,611 cases this fiscal year. That is second to fiscal 1999, when the Harbor Maintenance Tax ruling brought 6,433 — a year The Fold left out when it called this a pace seen once before.
Japan's Environment Ministry says six hours a day went wrong for three months. Its own API puts a number on it: 10,213,104 deleted forecasts
Japan's Environment Ministry pulled the WBGT heat-index forecasts it issued in the 0, 1, 2, 12, 13 and 14 o'clock hours between 22 April and 22 July. Its own API measures the hole: 132 of 492 records per station-day, 92 days, 841 stations — 10,213,104 forecasts.
For two months Nigeria's inflation report said which prices actually moved. Since May it has been printing the shopping basket again
Nigeria's July 2026 CPI report says food drove 6.18 points of the 15.43% headline. That is food's 40.02 basket weight times the headline rate, as are all 26 cells — and NBS itself published real decompositions for March and April before reverting in May.
Three Kenyan papers read the same line of the same table. One said matatu fares rose 16.8 per cent, one said 67, one said 0.3
Kenya's July 2026 CPI prices one matatu ticket at KSh 60, KSh 80 and KSh 100, then prints changes of 0.3 and 16.8 per cent. The prices say 25.0 and 66.7 — and three Nairobi newsrooms published three different fare figures off that one row.
The federal fire scoreboard passed 7 million acres in a single overnight step. Ninety-seven per cent of it was one column catching up
The daily federal situation report’s year-to-date total jumped 653,852 acres between its 14 and 15 August editions — the largest one-day step of 2026. The Bureau of Land Management’s column supplied 636,749 of it, on a morning its own Northwest fires reported almost no growth.
The ABS names a fastest-growing state twice a year. In 24 of the last 28 releases the gap was smaller than its own margin of error
Australia’s statistical agency put Queensland first for earnings growth in the six months to May and the Northern Territory second, separated by $8.40 a week. The standard error the ABS publishes on the Northern Territory’s own earnings estimate is $37.30.
Amazon is 97 per cent of the surge in the EU’s content-moderation database — twelve straight days at a level it had reached nine times all year
Filings to the European Commission’s Digital Services Act database rose by 9.78 million a day this month. Amazon Store supplied 9.44 million of the increase, after eight days in June when it filed fewer than 2,200 a day.
Reclamation’s projection for Lake Mead on 1 January 2027 fell 19 feet in a single edition. The rulebook that would have turned that into a water cut expires first
Twelve consecutive 24-Month Studies show the Bureau of Reclamation’s forecast for the date that sets Lower Basin shortage tiers. It dropped 19.33 feet between the April and May editions — and the 2007 guidelines that gave the number its force run out on 31 December.
USAspending shows two Pentagon accounts obligating more money than they have. One of them to six decimal places of exactly double
The federal spending site’s own account pages report the Payment to DoD Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund obligating $37.108bn against $18.554bn of budgetary resources. Forty-four Defense accounts show the same integer-multiple pattern, and none did a year ago.
Brazil’s most gender-balanced line on the ballot is the one no quota touches
Women are about 43 per cent of the candidacies registered for vice-governor in October’s election and about 16 per cent of those for governor. Neither office is covered by the candidacy quota that governs Brazil’s proportional races.
Correction: nine Reserve Banks are in the remittance hole, not eleven — and three of them are digging
A Fold brief on 10 August said eleven of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks were working off deferred assets. The release it cited showed nine, as every weekly statement since 15 April has. Three of the nine are deeper than they were in January.
Eurostat headlined a euro-area contraction on 5 June. A scheduled database update took it away, along with 86 of the 264 numbers in the same table
The euro area’s first quarter has been printed five different ways: +0.1, +0.1, −0.2, 0.0 and 0.0. The contraction that made headlines in June was reversed at a routine revision, and no euro-indicator release was issued to say so.
WHO’s Ebola death rate has climbed to 46.8 per cent in a month. Its own recovery counts show what is moving
The crude case fatality ratio WHO publishes for the Bundibugyo outbreak in DR Congo rose from 39 to 46.8 per cent across three notices. Over the same period the share of cases with a recorded outcome rose from 57 to 68 per cent, while the ratio among resolved cases barely moved.
New Orleans publishes a nightly feed of records requests "that have been published". Seventy-six rows in it never were
The city’s open-data feed of public records requests carries 10,340 rows. Seventy-six have no publication date, no closure reason and a last-update stamp that has not moved since the week they were filed — four of them still labelled "Due soon" more than 1,340 days on.
Capital One over-funded Discover’s last card bonds by $1.43bn. It has already taken $1.15bn back
The indenture clause authorising the deal was written into the documents the morning it closed. It says collateral must be "at least sufficient", and lets anything above that plus 2% return to the issuer.
The federal fire scoreboard says 6.35m acres. NIFC’s own forecasters put the season past 7m on 31 July
The daily situation report and the agency’s August outlook describe two different fire seasons. NIFC wrote the discrepancy down itself, ten days ago, and the two totals have still not met.
France wildfires 2026: a record 93,301 hectares, and a 20-year average that breaks in two
Copernicus puts France 40.6% above its previous record, set in 2022. The average behind the widely quoted multiple — including in our own reporting on 27 July — spans two different satellites.
The UN’s Syria refugee appeal is down 37% for the three countries still in it
Türkiye, Lebanon and Jordan are asked to plan on $2.74bn this year against $4.38bn last year. Eight months in, the plan has 10.3% of it — the second worst-funded of 34 appeals worldwide.
The Pueblo of Acoma waited 251 days for a disaster declaration, the longest in FEMA’s record
FEMA publishes the date a request arrives and the date it is answered. Put them end to end and DR-4918 is the slowest of 2,870 major disasters going back to 1953.
Brazil’s electoral roll lists 297,977 voters aged 100 or over. The census found 37,814 centenarians
Nine states hold 93.6% of them, and in every one fewer than a quarter have ever been fingerprinted. Where rolls were cleaned between elections, the numbers collapsed by up to 86%.
Cameroon lost in WAFCON qualifying. They are going to the World Cup
CAF expanded the tournament to 16 teams after qualifying had finished and filled the places by ranking. Two of the four invited teams won their groups; one has now taken a direct place at Brazil 2027.
Eleven Reserve Banks are working off their remittance hole. Chicago just printed its worst figure yet
The Fed’s weekly balance sheet shows the Chicago Bank’s deferred asset at $22.988bn, the largest on that line since it was created in 2011, while the System’s total fell to a 59-week low.
Exceptional drought is back in Oregon after 174 straight maps without it
The Drought Monitor released on 6 August puts 2.15% of the state in its worst category, all of it in Grant and Baker counties. The last time was March 2023.
Washington has drawn nine federal fire declarations this year, a record — four of them in Spokane County
FEMA’s record goes back to 1970 and no year had more than eight by this date. Spokane County had never had more than two; it took four in 46 days, three of them in one night.
On Japan’s worst heatstroke day, 744 of the 4,105 ambulance calls came from a workplace
The rule Japan made mandatory in June 2025 does not require employers to prevent heatstroke. It requires them to notice it — and the ministry’s own casualty count hit a record while deaths fell 39%.
USGS earthquake alerts pick their historical comparisons from a spreadsheet that ends in 2007
Every significant earthquake gets a PAGER alert naming up to three previous nearby quakes. Across 730 alerts since 2018 the alerts printed 1,712 such comparisons, and not one is dated later than 20 December 2007.
Britain quietly corrected six years of fuel poverty statistics. One uncorrected file is still up
DESNZ reissued its accredited fuel poverty report and six spreadsheets on 7 August, citing a calculation error on benefit receipt. The share of England’s fuel poor counted as on benefits, once disability benefits are included, falls from 67.3% to 61.0%.
Colombia’s Senate let 18 bills the Chamber had passed die without recording a vote on any of them
The Senate’s own 387-page legislative report logs 42 bills sent up by the Cámara as archived last session. For 18 of them it recorded no first-debate approval date at all — a median of 284 days after the Chamber voted.
Pakistan’s monsoon dead are 47.7% children. Its injured are 33.3%
NDMA’s situation report for 9 August puts the season at 153 dead and 457 injured. Children are nearly half the dead and a third of the injured — the same gap the agency recorded on the identical date last year.
The newest GPS satellite has been flagged unusable for 110 days. The four before it took 26 to 38
GPS III SV-10 launched on 21 April. The Master Control Station’s own status file still carries it as unusable until further notice, and it holds the only bad health word among 32 broadcasting satellites.
Black Hills Energy’s 8.8% southern Colorado rate rise lasts 24 months. Its filed tariff sets the increase at 14.7%
The customer notice filed with Colorado regulators puts a typical Pueblo-area residential bill at $142.48 against $124.18 today — up 14.7%. The 8.8% the company advertises is that figure net of a credit that expires.
Card payment rates just hit a 26-year high in American Express’s trust. The trusts stopped describing the card market years ago
AmEx’s securitisation trust reported a 52.29% monthly payment rate for June, 2.16 times its June 2009 level. The five largest card trusts have shrunk 71% since then while large banks’ card books grew 66%.
Zambia had the best goal difference at WAFCON and went out. CAF’s published rulebook describes a different tournament
Zambia left the group stage on +6, better than any of the four group winners, eliminated on the third head-to-head tie-break. The only Women’s Africa Cup of Nations regulations CAF publishes are for a 12-team competition.
The UN’s appeal for the Palestinian territories asks $1,368 per person it targets, the most of any in the world
Dividing each of this year’s 34 UN humanitarian plans by the people it targets puts the occupied Palestinian territory first at $1,368 a head, ahead of Ukraine at $559. It held the same position last year.
Cyclospora outbreak triples to 6,358 cases in 15 states after the CDC widened what counts as a case
The count had not moved for twelve days. Then the CDC expanded the outbreak from people who ate at Taco Bell to anyone who ate the recalled lettuce, and it tripled — largely with illnesses that began before the recall.
Japan’s worst heatstroke day on record: 4,105 people taken to hospital on 22 July
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency’s figures put 22 July above the previous daily high, set in 2018, by 296 people. The season read as light until late June; since then it has tracked the heaviest summer ever measured.
Liège had nearly three times its normal deaths in June’s heat week, and it was not the hottest place
Eurostat’s district-level weekly deaths put Arr. Liège first of the 371 districts that have reported, at 2.79 times its four-year median. Paris ran about two degrees hotter and came in at 2.60. An hour north, Flanders barely moved.
OPM gave 30 days of comment on the rules taking appeals off the MSPB, and 60 on the one that left it alone
Four civil-service rules landed in a single Federal Register issue on Monday. The two that replace the Merit Systems Protection Board as adjudicator were open for 30 and 31 days. Commenters called that unlawfully short, and OPM’s answer is printed in the rule.
America’s two largest wildfires have cost less between them than one Colorado fire a third their size
A single query against the federal incident feed puts Aspen Acres at $97m on 101,961 acres. Rowe Creek Complex and Big Grass, 699,000 acres between them, come to $82m. What a fire costs turns out to have very little to do with how much of it burns.
In Gaza, cigarettes cost 23 times what they did before the war. Lentils cost less
The Palestinian statistics bureau’s Gaza commodity file, run against its own pre-war baseline, sorts almost perfectly by how a good gets in. Everything that has to be trucked, smuggled or grown locally has multiplied; the staples aid convoys carry have barely moved.
We stopped counting Venezuela's earthquake dead at 1,700. The federal record now says 5,500
The US Geological Survey's impact file for the 24 June doublet puts the toll at least 5,500 killed and 29,995 missing as of 28 July — more than three times the figure this site last published.
FEMA has started releasing disaster declarations in batches. All 35 this year came on seven days
FEMA approved five major disaster declarations at once on Monday. Every one of 2026's 35 has landed on one of seven days, and the median wait from a state's request is now 47 days.
Mexico received $918m more in remittances this year. In pesos, households got 82 billion less
Banco de México's June figures show first-half remittances up 3.1% in dollars. Converted at the rates recipients actually face and adjusted for inflation, the same money buys 13% less.
Spokane fires: an arson arrest over Old Trails, and the engines are moving to Autumn Lane
Spokane County detectives booked a man for first-degree arson over the Old Trails fire. All three fires are still uncontained, and Autumn Lane took most of Monday's reinforcements.
China has left 27 Long March 6A upper stages in orbit since 2022. Not one has come down
The satellite catalogue holds a rocket body from every Long March 6A flight since March 2022. All 27 are still up, and 22 sit above 600km, where a spent stage stays for centuries.
Avista told investors about the Spokane fires in an 8-K. The 10-Q it filed the same day does not mention them
The Spokane utility filed three documents on Monday. One describes fires burning through its service territory; the quarterly report filed alongside it lists a different incident as its only subsequent event.
Japan's factory stockpiles rose for the first time since February, and carmakers drove it
METI's June industrial production figures show inventories turning up after three months of decline, with motor vehicles the largest single contributor — a reversal from May.
Gatwick's second runway survives its last legal challenge, on a carbon figure the airport supplied itself
The Court of Appeal refused permission to appeal the Gatwick northern-runway consent on Tuesday, calling every ground unarguable. The emissions number underpinning it is the developer's own.
India's disaster deaths more than doubled last year. One state is 62% of the total, and the ministry's own table does not add up
A written reply laid before the Lok Sabha on Tuesday puts hydro-meteorological deaths at 6,631. Six columns fail to reconcile with their own state rows, and Uttar Pradesh reports a 47-fold rise.
Spokane’s Old Trails fire destroyed a building for every 6.6 acres. No other fire in the country is close
Three fires that started within three and a half hours of each other on Saturday have taken 660 structures — 38% of everything the national fire report records as lost, on 0.31% of its acreage. All three were still at zero containment on Monday morning.
The satellite catalogue ran out of five-digit numbers. A docked Soyuz is now invisible to the old TLE format
The US Space Force catalogue crossed into six digits on 11 July, and the two-line element set — the format most tracking software still reads — has no room for them. Ask for the space stations as TLEs and the crew ferry is missing.
DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak is now the country’s largest ever, and its epicentre is closing the deadliness gap
WHO puts the Bundibugyo outbreak past the 2018–20 epidemic on case count. Reading its successive notices in sequence shows Ituri’s case fatality ratio has nearly tripled since June, from 15% to 41%, while the rest of the outbreak barely moved.
Cyclospora’s first two deaths, and Michigan alone reports six times the national outbreak count
Michigan attributes the deaths to its own 11,234-case outbreak, not to the nine-state outbreak the CDC has been counting at 1,947. One state is reporting 67% more cases than the CDC records for the whole country.
Altria’s cigarette profit rose $12m last quarter. Customs refunds contributed $27m of it
The number is in the 10-Q, not the press release. It is the second quarter running that Altria has quantified its duty-drawback benefit only in the filing — $51m in the first quarter, $27m in the second.
Germany’s June asylum figure looks like a fourteen-year low. Its own agency says the month cannot be compared
Eurostat published June data on Monday and Germany’s 4,265 first-time applicants is the lowest since 2012. The EU migration pact took effect on 12 June, and BAMF calls the resulting month-on-month move a purely statistical effect.
Colombia’s Senate gave the Pacto Histórico none of its fourteen committee leadership posts
Six of the seven constitutional committees announced their new chairs by press release. The seventh, the only one not to go to a party of the incoming majority, was updated quietly on the Senate’s own web page.
China’s factory index fell back below 50, and the two things that rose were jobs and unsold stock
The manufacturing PMI dropped 1.1 points to 49.2% in July, the steepest fall in the thirteen months the statistics bureau prints. New orders alone account for four-fifths of it.
Tariff refunds have reached $119bn, and the trade court is taking cases at a pace it has seen once before
Treasury’s daily ledger shows $118.9bn paid out through the Customs and Border Protection account in the first ten months of this fiscal year, against $10.8bn in all of the last one. The money started moving in May.
The FDA’s drug shortage database holds 1,181 open records. They are 73 drugs
The agency writes one shortage record per package, per manufacturer, so the same drug can appear ninety times. Counted properly, half the list has been in shortage for more than four and a half years, and four entries date from early 2012.
Take Ireland out of the euro area and the last four quarters look steadier than the headline numbers
Eurostat put euro-area growth at 0.4% for the second quarter. About a third of that came from Ireland, which is 3.5% of the bloc — and the quarter before, Ireland was most of the reason the euro area recorded no growth at all.
EU pump prices are up 20% over the year. The pre-tax price is up 42%, and fuel duty is absorbing the gap
Because excise is charged as a fixed sum per 1,000 litres rather than as a percentage, tax has fallen from 56.7% of the price of a litre of petrol to 48.8% in a year. That cushion is roughly nine-tenths of why drivers have not felt the full rise.
The lettuce outbreak now accounts for under a third of confirmed cyclospora cases, down from about half
The CDC’s named outbreak has been frozen at 1,947 cases since 24 July, while its national surveillance page — updated on the 28th — moved from 4,173 laboratory-confirmed cases to 6,707 across 45 states.
Finland has the EU’s highest unemployment rate, and Eurostat’s table reaches that ranking two different ways
Eurostat’s 30 July release puts Finland at 10.5% against Spain’s 10.1%. The two figures are not calculated the same way: Finland’s is a smoothed trend, Spain’s is seasonally adjusted. Finland leads on either basis.
Taiwan’s own statisticians had this quarter almost flat. It came in at an annualised 9.9%
The advance estimate published on Friday puts second-quarter growth at 12.92% on the year. Measured the way the agency itself forecast it — quarter on quarter, annualised — its May projection was 1.99% and the outturn was 9.91%.
Colombia’s president-elect takes office on 7 August. His candidate has already lost the Senate
Abelardo de la Espriella’s pick for Senate president was beaten 56–45 by Álvaro Uribe’s, eighteen days before the handover. He won the lower house instead — and in both chambers the outgoing left took a vice-presidency.
WAFCON 2026: Malawi beat Nigeria on their tournament debut, and Africa’s World Cup places will be settled in the quarter-finals
The ten-time champions lost 3–2 to a side playing its first match at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, and the holders of the other big record lost too. CAF’s own bracket shows why the decisive round comes on 8 and 9 August, not in the final.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan’s fire agency confirms three deaths and says 13 more are under investigation
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency’s seventeenth bulletin puts the verified toll at three, names the two towns, and then records separately that Kumamoto fire departments are reporting 13 further deaths not yet counted. Both numbers are in the same three-page document.
The national wildfire scoreboard says this year is 130% of normal. In the Northwest it is missing more acres than it counts
The federal situation report’s year-to-date table credits the Northwest with 776,014 acres burned. Its own active-incident table, on the same page, puts the fires currently assigned there at 1,835,823 — a gap of more than a million acres, and the report footnotes why.
UPS earnings: the US parcel business made one cent per package last quarter, down from 85 cents
UPS charged 9.3% more per US parcel in the second quarter and still cleared a single cent on each one, because its cost per piece rose 16.8%. The entire gap is one restructuring line — and on the company’s own adjusted numbers, profits went up.
Colorado’s Aspen Acres fire was due to be contained on Wednesday. That morning the federal report moved the date to 15 August
The estimated containment date for the fire southwest of Pueblo had read 29 July in every daily federal situation report since 30 June, when it was 2,476 acres. On the morning of the 29th it changed to 15 August — on a day when the fire itself did not move at all.
England and Wales population growth is the slowest of any non-pandemic year since 1998
The population reached 62,009,993 in mid-2025, a rise of 0.364%. Working through the Office for National Statistics’ own 188-year series shows only one slower year since 1999 — 2020 — and before that you have to go back to 1998.
Federal agencies now get three days to patch. CISA’s own catalogue shows the deadline started tightening months before the rule that set it
A binding directive issued on 10 June replaced a patch clock that had been almost exactly 21 days for four years. Recomputing every entry in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue shows the collapse happened in two steps, and the first one came three months early.
COVID emergency-room visits hit their lowest level on record in June, and the summer rise is starting from there
CDC’s emergency-department surveillance recorded COVID at 0.09% of visits in mid-June, the lowest in the series’ 1,400-day history. Late July is running at 0.21% — a rise, but 71% below the same week last year.
China extends its flood emergency to Sichuan as Typhoon Hongxia’s rain moves inland
The Ministry of Water Resources activated a level-four flood-defence response for Sichuan on Wednesday evening, warning that three tributary systems feeding the upper Yangtze may produce numbered floods between 30 July and 3 August.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan puts 354,000 people under its highest evacuation orders as two agencies differ on the magnitude
A Shindo 7 quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture at 16:27 local time. Japan’s fire agency had 354,284 people under its two highest evacuation levels by midnight, with rescues still running at a collapsed building.
Keiko Fujimori inherits the two-chamber Congress her father abolished — and a right-wing bloc with two-thirds of both houses
Fujimori was sworn in on Peru’s independence day alongside its first bicameral legislature since 1992. Her own party has a majority in neither chamber; the wider right clears two-thirds in both.
West Virginia and Kentucky are waiting on three disaster declarations. FEMA’s own records show the median wait this year is 53 days
Two governors have three pending requests between them, one of them expedited. The federal register of declarations shows what usually happens next — and that emergency declarations arrive in a day while the ones that pay households take months.
Pakistan’s monsoon death toll has more than doubled in eight days, and nearly half of the dead are children
The disaster authority’s daily situation reports put the season’s toll at 109 dead and 362 injured. Set against the report from eight days earlier, deaths are up 132% and damaged houses up 349%.
Boeing has now booked about $2.7bn of losses on a $4bn contract to build two Air Force One jets
The company disclosed another $280m charge on the presidential aircraft in its second quarter. Boeing reports the increments one at a time and never adds them up; totalled, they come to roughly two-thirds of the contract.
Sixty-seven days from outbreak to first injection: the registry file behind Oxford’s Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine trial
The protocol for the first human trial of a vaccine against the Ebola strain circulating in DR Congo is now public. It gives a cohort structure, a placebo ratio and a timetable that the announcements did not.
Europe switched on a new Galileo satellite last week and announced it in a status table
GSAT0234 entered active service on 23 July. The only public notice is a row in the EU’s constellation feed marked “usable as from” that date.
AstraZeneca’s core EPS rose 18%. Its reported EPS fell 2%, and a 15% tax rate did some of the work
AstraZeneca’s second-quarter core EPS rose 18% while reported EPS fell 2% at constant currency. Its own filing shows $1.5bn of add-backs and a tax rate below its full-year guidance.
Oregon wildfires: 37 large fires, 1.3 million acres and a 10th Conflagration Act invocation
Oregon wildfires span 37 large incidents and 1.32 million acres in Monday’s federal tally, with 68 structures destroyed and the Northwest holding two-thirds of the country’s fire acreage.
Spain and France wildfires: EU satellite data puts France at six times its 20-year average burnt area
Spain and France wildfires have displaced more than 300,000 people, and the EU’s own satellite service puts France’s 2026 burnt area at 91,265 hectares — 6.2 times its 20-year average.
DR Congo Ebola reaches 3,200 cases and 1,405 deaths as the first Bundibugyo vaccine is tested
DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak has reached 3,200 confirmed cases and 1,405 deaths, and Oxford says a first group of volunteers has received an experimental vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain.
Pacific Power’s Oregon rate case: residential bills rise 10.8%, not the 8.6% in the coverage
Pacific Power wants $170.7 million more from Oregon customers. Its own filing puts the residential increase at 10.8% and $15.61 a month — figures the local coverage left out.
NASA’s Madrid deep-space antennas are tracking spacecraft again after a wildfire crossed the site
NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is back on the air after a wildfire forced its evacuation, with four of its six dishes tracking spacecraft on Monday.
Tour de France: Pogacar equals the record five titles as van der Poel takes the Champs-Elysees
Tadej Pogacar won the 2026 Tour de France by 6 minutes 26 seconds, equalling the record of five titles, with Mathieu van der Poel winning a final stage cut short by the wildfires.
Boundary Waters reopens for day use after a closure that voided about 53,000 permit slots
The Boundary Waters reopened select Cook County entry points for day use on Monday after wildfires closed the wilderness on 14 July. Overnight camping stays barred until 29 July.
Spain and France wildfires force 267,000 to flee as France sets a national burn record
Wildfires across Spain and France have driven more than 267,000 people from their homes and burned nearly 98,000 hectares in France, a national record. Organisers cut the Tour de France’s final stage to free up emergency crews.
Berlin Pride attacker shot dead by police after van ramming kills one at Christopher Street Day
A van was driven into crowds at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day on Saturday night, killing a woman and injuring 29. Police shot the suspect dead on Sunday in Spandau. Germany’s interior minister called it an Islamist terror attack.
CDC figures show the lettuce recall accounts for under half of this year’s confirmed cyclospora cases
The Taco Bell-linked outbreak has grown to 1,947 cases across nine states. But the CDC has logged 4,173 laboratory-confirmed cyclosporiasis cases nationally since 1 May, plus more than 7,400 awaiting confirmation — which resolves the case-count gap this site reported last week.
IBM’s full results show software grew 5%. The collapse was in mainframes, down 42%
IBM’s second-quarter report, filed eight days after a profit warning erased a quarter of its market value, shows software revenue up 5% and IBM Z mainframe sales down 42%. The shares have recovered 4.1% from Wednesday’s low but sit 30% below their July peak.
Alphabet and Tesla both beat on revenue. Both sold off, on what the growth cost
Alphabet’s revenue rose 24% and Tesla delivered a record 480,126 vehicles, both ahead of forecasts. Alphabet then fell 7.1% and Tesla 14.5% the next day, as record capital spending and a 1.4% operating margin took over the story.
Chile declares a state of catastrophe after rain floods its desert north
President José Antonio Kast has decreed a state of catastrophe for Coquimbo and Huasco province after a week of rain across northern Chile killed at least 10 people and damaged more than 23,000 homes.
WAFCON opens in Morocco with Algeria beating Senegal 2-0
The expanded Women’s Africa Cup of Nations began in Morocco on Sunday, with Algeria beating Senegal 2-0 in the opening match. Hosts Morocco face Kenya later the same day.
Philippines, Japan and US finish South China Sea drills days after sailor struck
The three countries completed the 17th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in the South China Sea, a five-day exercise that began the day after Manila said a Filipino sailor was struck with a baton by Chinese coast guard personnel.
Andy Burnham becomes UK prime minister, 32 days after he entered parliament
Andy Burnham became prime minister on Monday, 32 days after a by-election first made him an MP. He is Britain’s seventh since the Brexit vote.
Trump imposes 50% Canada tariffs under Section 338, a 1930 law never used before
Trump signed three proclamations Monday imposing 50% duties on Canadian cars, alcohol and dairy under Section 338 — a 1930 law never before used for tariffs.
Cyclospora: Michigan alone reports 7,171 cases as FDA retracts its only positive test
Michigan’s state count of 7,171 is more than four times the federal outbreak figure, and the FDA has withdrawn the one lettuce sample that tested positive.
Zelensky removes army chief Syrskyi after six days of protests, promotes Drapatyi
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief was dismissed Tuesday after six days of protests. His replacement, Mykhailo Drapatyi, quit a command in 2025 over a deadly strike.
El Mayo Zambada sentenced to life in prison and a record $15 billion forfeiture
The Sinaloa co-founder was sentenced in Brooklyn on Monday. His $15 billion forfeiture is nominally the largest in a US drug case, but trails El Chapo’s in real terms.
Philippine sailor injured at Second Thomas Shoal days before China talks in Manila
Manila says a China Coast Guard team struck a navy serviceman on the head with a baton near the grounded BRP Sierra Madre. Beijing blames the Philippine side.
WAFCON opens in Morocco on Sunday with 16 teams and 2027 World Cup places at stake
The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations begins July 26 in Rabat, expanded from 12 teams to 16. The four semi-finalists qualify for the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.
World Cup final 2026: Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win a second title
Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute as Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time at MetLife Stadium. Spain conceded one goal in the entire tournament.
World Cup final 2026: Spain vs Argentina at MetLife, with a 64-year record at stake
The World Cup final kicks off at MetLife Stadium at 3pm Eastern on Sunday. Argentina can become the first back-to-back champion in 64 years; Spain have conceded one goal all tournament.
Josh Kerr breaks the mile world record with 3:42.66, ending a 27-year mark
Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 in London on Saturday to become the first man under 3:43 for the mile. He took 0.47 seconds off Hicham El Guerrouj’s record, which had stood since 1999.
Cyclospora outbreak tied to Taco Bell lettuce reaches 1,644 cases in five states
Cyclospora infections linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell have reached 1,644 reported cases across five states, with 94 hospitalisations. The FDA traced the lettuce to a single Mexican supplier.
Trump threatens tariffs over Canadian wildfire smoke as more than 900 fires burn
Smoke from over 900 Canadian wildfires has pushed air quality into unhealthy ranges across the US Midwest and Northeast. Trump said the cost of the pollution should be added to the tariffs Canada already pays.
Minnesota air quality hits worst levels on record as Boundary Waters fires burn
Minnesota recorded the most intense smoke pollution in its history this week, with readings in Ely and Duluth far above anything previously measured. The Twin Cities reached a "hazardous" air rating for the first time on record.
Colombia’s new Congress convenes as de la Espriella prepares to restore Israel ties
Colombia’s newly elected Congress is sworn in on Monday, weeks before president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office. He plans to restore relations with Israel and open an embassy in Jerusalem.
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami as UK seeks extradition on 38 new charges
US Marshals arrested the Tate brothers in Miami on Saturday on a sealed warrant. British prosecutors have brought 38 further charges including rape and sex trafficking, taking the total to 59.
Israel now holds nearly 70% of Gaza as the ceasefire enters its tenth month
Nine months into a US-brokered truce, Israel now holds nearly 70% of Gaza — up from about half — even as strikes continue. A July 14 attack in Jabalia killed a police commander and several of his officers.
Spain reach the World Cup final; England and Argentina meet to decide who joins them
Spain beat France 2-0 in Dallas to reach their second World Cup final and first since winning in 2010. England face Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday for the other place in the July 19 final at MetLife Stadium.
IBM suffers the worst day in its history, cratering 25% on a surprise profit warning
IBM shares plunged about 25% on July 14 — the steepest one-day fall in the company's history, worse than the 1987 crash — after it pre-announced weak second-quarter results. Cooler June inflation lifted the rest of the market.
China expels Ma Xingrui, its third Politburo member purged since 2025
Beijing expelled former Politburo member and ex-Xinjiang chief Ma Xingrui over corruption — the third member of the 24-strong body ousted since 2025 as Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive reaches into the party's civilian ranks.
New York becomes the first state to hit pause on big new data centers
Governor Kathy Hochul ordered a pause of up to a year on state permits for large data centers — those drawing 50 megawatts or more — making New York the first US state to brake the AI-driven buildout over energy and cost concerns.
Argentina's monthly inflation dips below 2% for the first time this year
Consumer prices in Argentina rose 1.9% in June, the slowest monthly pace since August and the first sub-2% reading of 2026 — a win for President Javier Milei, even as the 12-month rate edged up to 33.5%.
Brazil's top court bars Flávio Bolsonaro from visiting his jailed father
Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred Senator Flávio Bolsonaro — a leading presidential candidate — from visiting his father, ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, for 90 days, after Flávio read one of his letters on a livestream.
World Cup last 16 ends with all three hosts out and the quarterfinals set
The United States, Mexico, Canada and Brazil are all eliminated as the 2026 World Cup round of 16 closes. Messi dragged Argentina past Egypt in stoppage time; Switzerland knocked out Colombia on penalties.
Hamas dissolves its Gaza government, handing civil rule to a UN-backed committee
Hamas said it has dissolved the body that has run Gaza and will transfer day-to-day affairs to a technocratic committee under a US-founded Board of Peace. It stopped short of disarming — the deadlocked core of the ceasefire.
Trump to lift Turkey sanctions and weigh F-35 sale as NATO summit opens in Ankara
At the Ankara NATO summit, President Trump said the US will lift 2020 sanctions on Turkey and would "consider" returning it to the F-35 programme, while renewing Greenland claims and questioning the US troop presence in Europe.
Chip stocks tumble as DeepSeek in-house silicon and Samsung results spark AI-valuation jitters
Semiconductor shares sank on July 7 after reports China's DeepSeek is building its own AI chip and weak Samsung results reignited doubts about AI spending. A gauge of chipmakers fell over 4.5%; Micron dropped 4.7% and the SMH ETF slid nearly 4%.
Russia kills at least 26 in mass Kyiv barrage on eve of NATO summit
A combined Russian assault of ballistic and cruise missiles, Zircon hypersonics and 351 drones killed at least 26 people around Kyiv. Zelenskyy blamed an interceptor shortage and urged NATO for "strong decisions."
Sara Duterte impeachment trial opens in Manila with her 2028 run on the line
The Philippine Senate began the historic impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte over $110m in flagged funds and a death threat against President Marcos. A conviction needs 16 of 24 senators and could bar her from office for life.
UN warns of catastrophe as RSF drone siege tightens on Sudan's el-Obeid
Some 500,000 people are trapped in el-Obeid as the RSF pounds the North Kordofan capital with drones. The UN issued a "red alert"; UNICEF says more than 300 children have been killed or injured in Sudan in 2026 alone.
Super Typhoon Bavi Barrels Toward Guam and Okinawa
Typhoon Bavi strengthened into a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon in the western Pacific, threatening Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands around July 6 before a forecast approach to Okinawa and Japan's Sakishima Islands later in the week.
World Cup Round of 16: Mexico vs England at the Azteca, Brazil vs Norway as the Field Narrows
Mexico host England at a sold-out Estadio Azteca and Brazil face Norway on Sunday as the 2026 World Cup's round of 16 thins the field. Morocco knocked out co-hosts Canada, France edged Paraguay, and the United States meet Belgium on Monday.
NATO Summit 2026 Opens in Ankara With Defense Spending and Ukraine Atop the Agenda
NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8 for the alliance's first Turkish summit since 2004, with the 5%-of-GDP spending pledge, Ukraine's long-term needs, and a Canada-led Defence, Security and Resilience Bank among the items to watch.
Heat Dome's Record Tally Comes Into Focus as Relief Nears for the East
As the Fourth of July heat dome that put more than 185 million Americans under alerts begins to break down, the record tally is coming into focus — from Newark's 105°F to Atlantic City's 105°F — with cooler air set to reach the East by midweek.
Sail250 Fills New York Harbor With Tall Ships for America's 250th Fourth of July
The Sail250 parade sent 45 tall ships and more than 40 warships up the Hudson on the Fourth of July — organizers' pick for the largest maritime gathering in U.S. history, and the biggest tall-ship fleet New York has seen since the 1976 Bicentennial.
AI Screen Turns Up New Weapons Against Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea
A machine-learning search through millions of molecules has identified two experimental antibiotics that kill drug-resistant gonorrhea in new ways — including one that disables a bacterial enzyme no existing drug targets, a lab at Harvard, MIT and the Broad reports.
India Climbs to Its Highest-Ever Rank on the UN's 2026 SDG Index
India rose to 94th of 167 countries on the 2026 UN Sustainable Development Report, its best position yet and an 18-place climb since 2015 — even as the report cautions that only about a third of its targets are on track for 2030.
Heat dome peaks for July Fourth with 185 million under alerts and 300-plus records in reach
The heat dome The Fold tracked building in late June crested over the holiday weekend, with more than 185 million Americans under heat alerts and over 300 daily records expected to fall from the Plains to the East Coast by Saturday.
As Khamenei's funeral opens, the US-Iran ceasefire enters its most fragile stretch
Indirect talks are frozen for six days of funeral rites beginning July 4. A month after the June 17 memorandum, The Fold reconstructs how a signed deal survived US airstrikes, a near-collapse and a diplomatic pause — and what still is not settled.
Hiring cooled to 57,000 in June even as the Dow closed at a record
June payrolls rose just 57,000, about half of what economists expected, and prior months were revised down by 74,000 — yet the Dow finished July 2 at a record 52,900 as investors bet a softening labor market keeps the Fed on hold.
Carney's defence bank nears launch with about 10 founding nations before the NATO summit
Canada aims to unveil roughly 10 founding members of a Defence, Security and Resilience Bank at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara — a multilateral lender designed to raise up to $133 billion in cheaper financing for allied militaries.
DR Congo's Ebola outbreak tops 1,400 cases as a vaccine gap slows the response
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has grown past 1,400 confirmed cases and more than 430 deaths, WHO figures show — a fast-climbing toll made harder to contain because the licensed Ebola vaccine does not protect against this strain.
A study of 720,000 patients finds most referred for a kidney transplant never reach the waitlist
Analyzing records from 720,348 adults referred for kidney transplantation, researchers found nearly half never began the evaluation and only about 19 percent made the waitlist — a bottleneck the authors say the usual referral count conceals.
Wildfire on France's Mediterranean coast forces 3,000 to evacuate campsites and a marina
A fast-moving fire driven by 80 km/h winds swept from Sainte-Marie-la-Mer to the Canet-en-Roussillon marina in the Pyrénées-Orientales, forcing about 3,000 people — half of them from three campsites — to flee and briefly closing Perpignan airport.
Memory stocks slide as third quarter opens: Micron drops 10.6%, SanDisk and Applied Materials tumble
The AI memory trade cracked as Q3 opened: Micron fell 10.6% and SanDisk 10.6% on July 1 amid Fed hawkishness, a DRAM price-fixing suit and profit-taking after a 305% run.
US declines to renew USMCA, pushing North American trade pact into a decade of annual reviews
The Trump administration refused to renew the USMCA at its July 1 deadline, triggering yearly reviews of a pact covering $1.6 trillion in trade. Without a deal, it expires in 2036.
Merz coalition unveils 34-measure reform package: €10bn tax cuts, later retirement, stricter sick leave
Germany's ruling coalition agreed a 'Programme for Revival and Employment' — €10bn in income tax relief funded by a 47% top rate, pension-age rises and day-one sick notes.