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Ducommun Posts Record Revenue as Missile Boom Rewrites Its Growth Story
The quiet defense supplier just beat Wall Street by 20% on earnings and set an all-time revenue record. When missiles are flying off the production line, someone's making money — and it isn't a household name.
The Jobs Report the Fed Didn't Want: 23,000 Jobs Gone, Unemployment Falls Anyway
July's labor numbers look contradictory on the surface — fewer jobs, lower unemployment — but the explanation is more unsettling than the headline figure. Workers aren't getting hired; they're disappearing from the count entirely.
WFP: El Niño Could Tip 49 Million More People Into Acute Hunger
The UN's food agency is sounding its loudest alarm yet as ocean temperatures hit a 40-year high. The window to act is narrow — and the countries in the crosshairs have the least margin for error.
Apple's Coming Price Hike Makes Right-Now iPhone Deals Worth a Hard Look
A confluence of tariff pressure, a tightening DRAM supply chain, and Apple's own margin ambitions point toward higher iPhone prices as soon as next week. If you're in the market, the window to buy at today's prices may be shorter than the sales banners suggest.
SpaceX's Stock Cratered 50%. The Underlying Machine Is Still Printing Money.
The IPO frenzy cooled fast, but the numbers underneath tell a different story. Before you write off the post-Musk selloff as collapse, read the actual ledger.
Indian Court Convicts Ex-Tehelka Editor Tejpal for 2013 Rape, Hands Down 10-Year Term
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has overturned Tarun Tejpal's acquittal and sentenced him to ten years in prison for raping a junior colleague inside a hotel elevator. The case — which exposed the rot at the heart of India's liberal media establishment — has now run for over a decade.
345 Sick, 36 Hospitalized: The Jalapeño Supply Chain Nobody Was Watching
A Salmonella outbreak traced to Mexican jalapeño peppers has spread across 27 states, exposing the invisible infrastructure behind your fast-casual burrito. The FDA and CDC are investigating — but the contamination was already inside the restaurant before anyone started looking.
Apollo Buys easyJet for £5.7bn — and Budget Air's Era of Independence Is Over
The orange tail that democratised European short-haul flying is about to be owned by a Wall Street private equity giant. Passengers, workers, and a founding billionaire all have reason to watch what comes next.
UN Food Index Hits 3-Year High — And the Causes Aren't Going Away
Heatwaves scorching grain belts and wars strangling Black Sea export corridors have pushed global food commodity prices to their highest point since January 2023. The FAO's July numbers are a warning shot, not a blip.
U.S. Taxpayers Have Now Spent $4 Billion Paying Companies to Kill Wind Power
The Trump administration handed German energy giant RWE $1.22 billion to walk away from offshore wind leases off New York, California, and Louisiana. It's the fifth such payout this year — and the bill to the American public is nearly $4 billion and climbing.
Maharashtra Seamless Posts 150% Profit Jump — But the Factory Didn't Do It
India's leading seamless pipe maker just handed investors a headline number that flatters. Strip out the treasury windfall and the core business tells a different story.
Tamil Nadu Bets $1.5 Trillion on AI and Infrastructure — With Debt Already Mounting
The newly elected TVK government's debut budget lays out one of India's most ambitious state economic visions: an AI city, a spaceport, deep-sea ports, and a $1.5 trillion economy by 2036. The fine print acknowledges the state's finances are under serious strain.
Open AI, Stolen AI, or Just Better AI? America's Real Problem With China
A Chinese lab just built a near-frontier AI model at a fraction of American costs — and Washington's reflex is to lock things down. That instinct may be killing the very innovation it claims to protect.
FAA Orders Structural Crack Checks on 471 Boeing 737 Max Jets — Again
The FAA has issued a mandatory airworthiness directive targeting fuselage components on nearly half a thousand 737 Max aircraft. For Boeing, it's the latest entry in a quality-control rap sheet that keeps growing.
Iran Missiles an ADNOC Tanker in Hormuz — and the World's Oil Artery Skips a Beat
The UAE says Iran fired on a state oil tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world's petroleum flows. No one died this time — but the pattern of attacks is anything but random.
India Quietly Opens the Door to UPI Fees — Here's What the Fine Print Actually Says
A new bill passed by the Lok Sabha strips the legal barrier preventing banks from charging fees on UPI transactions. The government says users won't pay a rupee — but that promise is a policy choice, not a law.
India's Beer Revolution: Homegrown Brands Are Killing the Import Myth
For decades, 'premium' in India meant foreign. A new generation of Indian craft brewers is dismantling that colonial hangover — one well-hopped pint at a time.
BRICS Industry Ministers Sign Jaipur Declaration — The Anti-Western Industrial Order Takes Shape
Ten nations, representing nearly half the world's population, just agreed on a framework for industrial cooperation that deliberately sidesteps Western-led institutions. What got signed in Jaipur isn't a press release — it's architecture.
Court Slaps Down Dlamini Suspension — But Godongwana Wants the Last Word on PIC
A High Court found the CEO's suspension unlawful, handing the PIC's Patrick Dlamini a legal victory. Finance Minister Godongwana isn't conceding the point — he's using the ruling to accelerate governance changes that could redraw who really controls Africa's largest asset manager.