MINNEAPOLIS — General Mills is adding ready-to-bake frozen croissants to its Pillsbury brand.

The frozen croissants are available in two varieties: butter Grands croissants and chocolate Grands croissants. The chocolate variety features a Belgian chocolate filling.

“More people want to recreate the quality and indulgence of a bakery experience at home but without the time and effort that traditionally comes with it,” said Maria Carolina Comings, vice president and business unit director for Pillsbury at General Mills.

The frozen croissants are available in an 8-count pack at retailers nationwide.

Billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis is warning that foreign adversaries will do “anything” to weaken President Donald Trump, while also voicing disappointment with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Catsimatidis joined FOX Business’ Cheryl Casone on “Mornings with FOX Business” to discuss national security concerns on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, geopolitical tensions and what he sees as efforts to undermine President Trump.

“The evil empire, whether it’s Russia, North Korea, China, Iran, the evil empire will do anything to make sure that they cripple Trump in the November 3rd election,” Catsimatidis said.

The Red Apple Group chairman and CEO singled out Canada, saying he was disappointed in Carney despite describing the prime minister as someone he likes and considers smart.

“I think he [Carney] feels the same way, that they’re gonna be able to take a bigger advantage of the United States if Trump was crippled,” Catsimatidis said.

Catsimatidis framed his concerns around Trump’s approach to business and international negotiations, arguing that the president’s dealmaking makes him a target for countries seeking an advantage over the United States.

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“He’s not only a president, he is a businessman,” Catsimatidis said.

Catsimatidis also reflected on the September 11 attacks, saying he lost four personal friends and a cousin that day. He warned that younger Americans have no personal memory of the attacks and argued that the country must remain vigilant.

“I believe that our country is under attack and that if we don’t keep our eyes open, there’ll be another 9/11. New York is the target, Washington is the target, and we have to be extra careful,” he said.

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Catsimatidis closed with another warning about threats facing the country.

“November 3, help save America, because we’re under attack in so many directions,” Catsimatidis warned.

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London: The first zero-duty consignments of Indian jewellery and coffee have landed in the UK following the implementation of the landmark India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

The pact came into force on July 15.

The India-UK CETA was celebrated at the High Commission of India in London with a display of some of the key products already reaping the benefits of the low or no-tariff regime under the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA).

“A few consignments have already arrived under the CETA, which basically covers about 99 per cent of all the tariff lines under which India exports to the UK, and therefore we expect that the benefits will be significant,” said P Kumaran, the Indian High Commissioner to the UK.

Nysa Creations, a London-based importer of jewellery, and Odisha’s Kruti Coffee, which is set to launch its first UK cafe soon, were among the businesses proudly displaying their products that are set to benefit from CETA.

“We expect to double India-UK trade in goods and services, which is currently about 65 billion dollars, up to 100 billion dollars in the next four years by 2030; and CETA is expected to play a huge role in promoting greater awareness of the opportunities and also to help our businesses compete more effectively in each other’s markets.
“We think that this will help promote the strength of industries, manufacturing ecosystems on both sides, the ability for both to generate more employment and therefore provide larger benefits to societies in both countries,” he said. The agreement’s entry into force (EIF) was marked with a special “CETA EIF” cake-cutting ceremony alongside officials from the UK’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT).

It also witnessed the formal launch of a new Indian High Commission LinkedIn social media facilitation forum, which will serve as a dedicated platform to help businesses, exporters, importers and investors leverage its full benefits.

“It is a milestone moment for Kruti Retail Ventures as our coffee consignment is the first Indian coffee consignment to the UK under CETA, despatched from Kolkata for the opening of our first international cafe in London on August 1,” said co-founder Jeeta Mona, who presented a symbolic Kruti Coffee tin to officials at India House.

According to DBT estimates, CETA is forecast to increase bilateral trade by 25.5 billion pounds annually in the long run, while boosting India’s GDP by 5.1 billion pounds and the UK’s GDP by 4.8 billion pounds by strengthening supply chains, supporting jobs and opening new opportunities for businesses across both countries.

The event also spotlighted a toolkit collated by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as a guide for Indian businesses navigating the post-CETA trading regime in the UK.

‘India-UK CETA: A Guide to UK Import Requirements for Indian Exporters’ consolidates information on key UK standards and regulatory requirements to support India’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with their expansion plans in Britain.

VIENNA, Va. — Members of Navy Federal Credit Union began reporting trouble reaching accounts after 10:26 a.m. Eastern on Friday, according to DownDetector, which posted that user complaints had risen enough to flag an incident.

The aggregator’s public post said reports pointed to problems since that hour and asked how the disruption was affecting people. On its status page, the most common complaints clustered around the mobile app, login screens and mobile banking. One snapshot listed the app at 57 percent of reports, login at 33 percent and mobile banking at 6 percent. DownDetector records a spike only when volume runs well above the usual pattern for that time of day. It does not confirm a core-system failure.

Independent monitors were split. Some websites that ping navyfederal.org returned HTTP 200 and called the public site up. Other trackers showed little or no report volume in the same window. That mix is typical of a digital-channel glitch: the marketing homepage can load while the authenticated app or online-banking session fails.

Navy Federal did not immediately publish a system-status notice matching the morning spike. The credit union’s help accounts on X have, in earlier incidents this year, told members they were “experiencing a temporary system outage” and that a technology team was “actively working towards a resolution,” without giving an estimated time. Those replies were from August, not Friday. No official statement dated Sept. 11 confirming a companywide outage was located in public feeds.

Navy Federal is the largest credit union in the United States by assets, serving members of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, veterans and their families from headquarters in Vienna, Virginia. Digital access is how most members check balances, move money between accounts, pay bills and deposit checks. When the app or login path stalls, payday deposits, allotments and bill-pay calendars sit behind a spinner.

Friday was Patriot Day, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. It is not a federal holiday. Banks and credit unions were open on a normal schedule. That meant a weekday morning of payroll, rent drafts and card authorizations, not a quiet holiday window.

A login failure is not the same as frozen deposits. Card networks and ATM switches often stay up when a mobile app cannot authenticate. Members who could not open the app could still try a branch, an ATM, a phone agent or a card at a point of sale. Those workarounds do not help someone who needs to see a balance before a transfer or approve a bill that is due the same day.

Credit unions of this size run layered systems: identity, session, core ledger, card authorization. A spike concentrated on “app” and “login” often points at identity or session services rather than the ledger itself. Until the institution says otherwise, that remains an inference from the complaint mix, not a diagnosis.

Members who hit errors are usually told to update the app, clear cache, try a browser instead of the app, or wait. Sharing passwords or one-time codes with anyone who messages after an outage is a standard fraud pattern. Navy Federal’s public accounts have historically asked members to describe an error code in a direct message rather than post account details.

The last widely logged disruption on third-party outage histories was in mid-August and lasted a little more than two hours. Friday’s flag began in late morning Eastern time. How long it lasted, and whether it reached branches or cards, depends on a statement the credit union had not posted when the DownDetector alert circulated.

Until that statement exists, the record is this: a midmorning rise in member reports, concentrated on the app and login, at the largest U.S. credit union, on a normal banking day that also happened to be a national day of remembrance. Members who still cannot sign in have the usual tools — phone, branch, ATM — and should treat unsolicited “we can fix your account” messages as hostile.

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Nearly 1,500 ships have been sitting idle in the Persian Gulf for close to five months, trapped since fighting between the US and Iran shut down movement through the Strait of Hormuz on February 28, 2026. Marine scientists now say the real danger from this standoff may not be on these ships at all, it could be growing right beneath them.

A new study in the journal Biological Invasions warns that the hulls of these stranded vessels have turned into breeding grounds for barnacles, mussels, algae and other sea creatures. Led by 24 scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the research says this build-up could trigger what it calls a “bioinvasion super-spreader event” the moment the ships finally start moving again.

The World’s Busiest Bottleneck, Stuck

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t just any stretch of water. It’s the only open-sea exit for oil giants like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE, and it usually carries around $600 billion worth of energy trade every year. Since the war began, roughly 1,500 vessels have been stuck inside the Persian Gulf, with several hundred more waiting it out in the neighbouring Gulf of Oman.
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Gulf of Hormuz’s Underwater Army: A Slimy Situation Underwater

Ships that stay parked in one spot don’t stay clean for long. Scientists call the build-up “biofouling”, a process that starts with a thin film of slime and microorganisms, then thickens into algae, barnacles, mussels and small crustaceans clinging to the hull. The International Maritime Organization says any ship idle for more than 30 days needs urgent hull-cleaning attention. These ships have been sitting for nearly four months, right through the season when marine life grows and breeds the fastest.

Carolyn Tepolt, a biologist at Woods Hole who studies how invasive sea life spreads, points out just how hard these hitchhikers are to get rid of once they settle down. As she put it, “Marine invasive species have profound ecological and economic impacts on coastlines across the globe”.

Burning More Fuel Just to Move

A dirty hull doesn’t just carry unwanted guests, it also drags. Research cited by the IMO shows that even a thin layer of slime can push up a ship’s emissions by 20 to 25 percent. Add a light coating of barnacles, and fuel use can jump by more than 50 percent. Across the shipping industry, roughly one-tenth of all fuel burned is simply spent fighting this drag.

The Mussel That Travelled the World

This isn’t a hypothetical worry. The Asian green mussel, native to the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans and common in the Gulf, has already hitched rides on ship hulls to the Caribbean and the South Atlantic, pushing out local mussel species wherever it lands. Clam and worm species have made similar journeys before, damaging port infrastructure and displacing native life in the Atlantic and Pacific.

Divers Are Already Scrubbing Away

Ports across the Gulf aren’t waiting around. Divers are being sent underwater to scrape hulls and propellers clean before ships are allowed to sail out. It isn’t cheap, cleaning a single vessel now costs close to $8,000, a jump of nearly 60 percent, as shipping operators scramble to get their fleets moving again.

From Theory to Reality

The episode has also rattled the insurance world. Justus Heinrich, who heads marine underwriting at Allianz, says the industry always treated chokepoint disasters as something on paper. Now, in his words, “theoretical risks have turned into practical risks.”

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The study’s authors aren’t just sounding an alarm, they’re pushing for action. They want shipping companies, port authorities and regulators to tighten hull-cleaning rules, watch high-risk ports more closely, track vessel movements better and coordinate a rapid response once ships start sailing out. Their strongest recommendation: clean the hulls before departure, not after arrival. Once an invasive species sets up shop on a new coastline, the study notes, it is nearly impossible to remove.

For now, the world’s busiest oil route remains jammed, and somewhere beneath all those anchored hulls, an entirely different kind of traffic is quietly building up, waiting for its own chance to set sail.

R3 has published its latest quarterly business health report for Wals

New company registrations in Wales fell in the second quarter of this suggesting business confidence remains subdued despite a reduction in insolvency-related activity, according to an R3 report.

The latest quarterly business health report from the membership body for insolvency professionals, based on data from Creditsafe, found that 4,922 new companies were registered in Wales during Q2 2026, a 15% decrease on the same period last year (5,796) and an 8% fall compared to the previous quarter (5,330).

While fewer new businesses were launched, the number of Welsh companies entering insolvency-related processes also declined. There were 191 insolvency-related activities in Q2 2026, 22% lower than the same period last year (245 cases) and 10% lower than the previous quarter (212).

More recent figures suggest business pressures have continued, with Insolvency Service statistics showing company insolvencies in England and Wales increased by 5% in July, compared to the previous month, rising to 1,931 cases.

For the UK as a whole company registrations falling by 6% year-on-year to 184,873 in Q2 2026 and by 2% compared to the previous quarter. Insolvency-related activity has also declined nationally by 6% compared with Q2 2025, falling to 6,854 cases.

Bethan Evans, chair of R3 in Wales, said: “The report suggests that while business distress has eased across Wales, many entrepreneurs and business owners are continuing to take a cautious approach to growth and investment.

‘The reduction in insolvency-related activity is encouraging and reflects the resilience shown by many Welsh businesses. However, the significant fall in new company registrations suggests that economic uncertainty continues to influence decisions around starting a new venture.

‘Businesses are still facing a range of pressures, including increased operating costs, ongoing economic uncertainty and changing consumer demand. These challenges can affect confidence and make it harder for firms to plan and invest for the future.”