VF Corp.’s Q1 Shows 1% Sales Increase, Excluding Dickies
VF Corp. bested revenue expectations and raised its outlook for the year, but the company’s first-quarter results showed that it still has plenty of work to do. First-quarter adjusted operating losses, excluding the now-sold Dickies, narrowed to $95 million and were better than the $100 million the company forecast. Net losses narrowed to $119.3 million,…
Read MoreSpain’s three worst wildfires since 1961 happened in last two years
The wildfire that engulfed Spain’s Avila region, northwest of the capital Madrid, is now considered the largest in the country’s modern history, with around 50,000 hectares burned, the government said this week. With this incident, the three largest wildfires recorded nationwide have all occurred within the last two years, according to the latest data from…
Read MoreThree Books Sheila Heti Recommends
Sheila Heti—whose new story “Earthly Delights,” about the mysteries of lust, appears in this week’s issue—wrote one of my favorite books ever: “Motherhood.” The narrator is in her thirties, watching her fortieth birthday tick closer and trying to decide if she wants to get pregnant. “Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from…
Read MoreFauci Has a Lot to Answer For | National Review
I’m glad he will be exposed on his real views about masks, the wet-market theory, and everything else he lied about. Source link
Read MoreFairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World
Thankfully, in the sixties, a light flips on. An extreme case is “Oak Tree” (1969), where sunlight crashes through the branches onto the grass and becomes its own radioactive organism. There’s a whole subgenre of these high-contrast works in Porter’s late style, but my favorites are pieces like “Untitled (View Outside Southampton Studio)” (1968) and…
Read MoreOnce high-flying PayPal becomes a takeover target as it attempts a turnaround
Digital payments giant PayPal was soaring high five years ago, riding the surge in online shopping after the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped people’s buying habits. Now the San José fintech company has reportedly become a takeover target as it tries to get more people to click on the PayPal button to purchase items amid fierce competition.…
Read MoreTrump’s Rage at Iran Takes Truly Scary Turn, and Even MAGA Is Unnerved
On Fox News, Donald Trump threatened to bomb all of Iran’s bridges and all of its power plants. Making this worse, Trump declared that his threat could leave all of Iran’s 91 million people without power. That may be the first time Trump has explicitly said this threat could apply to Iran’s entire population, which…
Read MoreUBS logs forecast-beating quarterly profit, flags US$3 billion in new buybacks by end-June
Published Wed, Jul 29, 2026 · 01:26 PM [ZURICH] UBS booked a 17 per cent jump in second-quarter profit on Wednesday (Jul 29), ahead of expectations, and said it plans to buy back shares worth US$3 billion by the middle of next year at the latest. Of that amount, it intends to repurchase at least…
Read MoreA 2:47 a.m. alert, a rabbit and 220,000 evacuees as France’s wildfire rages on
BORDEAUX, France (AP) — The mobile phone alert message marked “URGENT” came with a beeeeeeep in the dead of night. “Evacuate now,” it said. Suddenly awake, Morgane Bonichot scrambled. She grabbed her 9-year-old daughter, their rabbit and their dog but didn’t think to pack underwear. The 40-year-old childcare worker found herself swept up in one…
Read MoreDiane von Furstenberg to Be Awarded 2026 Couture Council Award From the Museum at FIT
The Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will honor Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, with the 2026 Couture Council Award for her transformational influence on women’s fashion. Von Furstenberg will receive the award during MFIT’s annual Couture Council luncheon on Oct. 22 at Gotham Hall in New…
Read MoreOpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says
Published Wed, Jul 29, 2026 · 07:10 AM [WASHINGTON] The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with…
Read MoreThe Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”
One of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great gifts as a writer was her ability to reconnect, at age sixty-three and beyond, with her childhood sense of wonder and discovery. For readers of her autobiographical “Little House” books, it is pleasurable, if head-spinning, to share in the joy she finds in hard work and family camaraderie amid…
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