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Netflix posts higher Q2 results but shares drop due to forecast

Business News July 17, 2026

Netflix said Thursday its second-quarter profit grew thanks to new membership signups and price increases, which “had gone well and as expected.” But the company’s shares declined sharply in after-hours trading as the video streaming company’s forecast for the current quarter fell below Wall Street’s expectations. Netflix earned $3.4 billion, or 80 cents per share, in the March-June period. That’s up 9% from $3.13 billion, or 72 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. Revenue grew 13% to $12.56 billion from $11.08 billion. Analysts, on average, were ...

Leaders hear benefits of juvenile court programs

Local News July 17, 2026

NORTH JACKSON — Mahoning County Juvenile Court Magistrate Gina DeGenova promoted some of the court’s services at the township trustees meeting Tuesday. The programs are designed to assist at-risk youth and their families. For example, the court’s Early Warning System is meant to improve school attendance for troubled youths. “Our Early Warning System department is where we have coordinators who come out to the schools to try to combat absenteeism before it gets to the point where there are juvenile court complaints filed,” DeGenova said. Another program offered by the ...

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America already tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now?

National News July 17, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an idea whose time, as it were, may have come — again. The twice-yearly changing of the clocks in the United States could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through. But even as annoying as some find the back-and-forth of the time shift in the spring and the fall, that doesn’t necessarily mean sticking to one would go over well. America has tried it before, most recently in the 1970s, and it didn’t last. Now it’s a new era, one full of people working at home who didn’t before ...