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Jul. 29—Appeal Staff Report The Colusa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2441 and the Maxwell American Legion Post 218 have teamed up again this year to host the annual Colusa County Veterans Picnic on Saturday. Organizer Bill Tanner said this is the tenth year the event has been held — with a pandemic-related hiatus last year — to allow the local veteran community to gather together, swap stories ...

The economy grew 6.5% in the second quarter as more Americans were vaccinated and states lifted restrictions. But the gain was smaller than projected.

British cable and mobile provider Virgin Media O2 said it would upgrade its entire network serving 15.5 million premises to full fibre by 2028, stepping up its challenge to BT in rolling out ultrafast connections. Virgin Media 02, a joint venture that brought together Liberty Global's cable network and Telefonica's O2 mobile network earlier this year, said there was an opportunity to enter the fixed wholesale market. Chief Executive Lutz Schuler said Virgin Media was already Britain's leading gigabit network - delivering speeds of 1.1 Gbps by the end of this year - and the upgrade would make it even stronger for the decades ahead.

The S&P 500 and the Dow indexes were set to rise on Thursday as a slate of strong corporate earnings reports and data showing a pickup in U.S. economic growth reinforced optimism around a steady post-pandemic recovery. Ford Motor Co jumped 4.9% in premarket trading and was on course to open at a two-week high as it lifted its profit forecast for the year.

The U.S. economy grew solidly in the second quarter, but the pace was below expectations as robust consumer spending and business investment on equipment were tempered by a sharp inventory drawdown amid supply chain constraints. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast GDP rising at an 8.5% rate last quarter. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the arbiter of U.S. recessions, declared last week that the pandemic downturn, which started in February 2020, ended in April 2020.