The Wall Street Journal reports US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump and is expected to depart the Pentagon within days. He had clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Army’s direction and the firing of several senior officers. Driscoll’s departure would leave the Army without any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders; since Hegseth dismissed former Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George, Gen. Christopher LaNeff has served as acting

Zhangjiajie said core tourism operations are continuing to improve and H2 earnings are expected to strengthen as peak season, consolidation of the Tianzi Mountain cableway and new projects progress. The Tianzi Mountain cableway acquisition is complete, delivering cableway business synergies and did not increase interest-bearing debt. Environmental passenger-transport operations remain stable, Dayong Ancient City’s performance is improving, and rising inbound tourism plus greater travel agency–hotel coordination should support consumption and further improvement in profit excluding non-recurring items for the year.

MOFCOM and six other ministries issued implementation opinions to expand and upgrade goods consumption, targeting total retail sales of consumer goods of around 60 tln yuan by 2030. The plan aims to cultivate 10 tln yuan-level markets in green, smart and health consumption and to sustain growth in trillion-yuan retail categories — autos, home appliances, communications equipment and textiles/apparel — to maintain China’s globally leading market scale.