Israeli Prime Minister NETANYAHU said Iran is attempting to regain nuclear weapons.

ECB President Lagarde said manufacturing is solid, the services sector is recovering and consumer confidence is improving.

At the Republican National Convention opening night, Trump reiterated that "as long as I'm running, Republicans always do very well. We won the presidential election three times," and again asserted he won the 2020 election despite losing both the popular vote and the Electoral College to Biden. Allegations of voting-machine fraud, illegal mailed ballots and manipulated swing-state counts were dismissed, and then-Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ found no fraud sufficient to alter the result.