In Other Brews…

• The sun rose in Paris. In similarly shocking news, Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky won gold medals. Biles won the women’s all-around, repeating her 2016 feat and earning her sixth gold. Defending champ/teammate Suni Lee took bronze. Ledecky became the most decorated U.S. female Olympian ever (13 medals), dominating the 1500m freestyle and grabbing silver in the 4x200.

• Double-check your boar lunch meat. Following a deadly listeria outbreak, Boar’s Head is “immediately and voluntarily” expanding its recall to seven million pounds of liverwurst, ham, beef salami, bologna, and other ready-to-eat meats produced at a Virginia plant. The outbreak has claimed two lives and sickened nearly three dozen in 13 states. Check product numbers here.

• Delta Airlines is lawyering up, saying it has “no choice” but to sue after CrowdStrike’s global IT outage cost the airline $500 million in lost revenue and customer compensation. In other airplane news, Boeing has appointed its new CEO, aerospace veteran Robert Ortberg, tasked with turning around the storied company after years of scandals, financial losses, and regulator scrutiny.

• The Federal Reserve appears ready to cut interest rates soon. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that interest rates could be cut “as soon as the next meeting in September;” a change from his typical vague-on-timing statements. Not to be outdone by some Yankees, the Bank of England cut interest rates yesterday for the first time since 2020.

• The accused mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has agreed to plead guilty alongside two accomplices in exchange for life sentences, avoiding the death penalty. Their trials were repeatedly delayed (evidence linked to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” like waterboarding, is inadmissible). Families of 9/11 victims were notified of the deal before the public via letters.