CDC says outbreak is in nine states

A customer shops for cilantro at a Walmart Supercenter on July 23, 2026, in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The nation’s largest multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked to shredded iceberg lettuce has expanded to nine states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The four newly linked states — Illinois, Kansas,…

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Why Trump's new tariffs are less likely to lose a legal battle

President Trump’s new global tariffs based on forced labor violations have already drawn lawsuits and criticism from U.S. allies, but experts say the legal basis could make them harder to reduce than previous tariffs. Trump’s previous “Liberation Day” tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) were struck down by the Supreme Court earlier…

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Bond market anxiety is growing over AI capex budgets

Investors are getting increasingly uncomfortable with the amount of capital needed to make the artificial intelligence buildout a reality. It’s playing out in real time in the bond market, where the biggest names involved in the blitz — Google, Amazon and Meta — are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward to…

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