1. Economic growth surged in the second quarter, with the United States’s gross domestic product rising at an annual rate of 4.1 percent.

It was the strongest quarter since 2014.

The acceleration was widely anticipated by economists, who described it as a result of a confluence of events unlikely to recur. Most economists expect growth to slow in the second half of the year. Above, soy beans grown for Unilever in Iowa.

At the White House on Friday, President Trump claimed credit for an economy he called the “envy of the entire world.”