US employers added fewer jobs than expected in June even as the unemployment rate slipped to 4.2%, a mixed labor-market read that cooled market bets on a near-term Fed rate hike.
The Vatican declared the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X in formal schism and excommunicated bishops it consecrated in Switzerland without Rome's approval, defying Pope Leo XIV — the sharpest breach with the group in decades.
Scientists assembled a synthetic cell from separately produced molecular parts and got it to grow and divide on its own — a milestone toward building living cells from defined components rather than editing existing ones.
Global startup funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with Q2 the second-largest quarter ever and venture-backed exits — IPOs and M&A — rebounding in force, all driven by the AI boom.