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Lilly agrees to buy Centessa Pharmaceuticals, maker of the orexin agonist cleminorexton for narcolepsy, for $38 a share in cash (about $6.3 billion) plus a CVR worth up to $1.5 billion more; the deal closed on 24 June 2026.

Five of Raleigh's chefs, restaurateurs and bar owners open a neighbourhood restaurant and bodega on Brookside Drive, with Cheetie Kumar as executive chef.

Dorohedoro's second season streams on Netflix, with MAPPA continuing the story of the amnesiac, lizard-headed Caiman as he closes in on the sorcerer responsible for his cursed appearance.

Work started on the foundational infrastructure for a 65,000-seat domed stadium on the old RFK Stadium site in southeast Washington, with the full groundbreaking held back to early 2027 and opening expected in 2030. The Commanders are putting up $2.7 billion towards a project projected at $3.8 billion; the District is spending $500 million on infrastructure and will own the building.

Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler replace Tail Up Goat with a counter-service New American restaurant in the same space.

8-bit begins broadcasting That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4, continuing Rimuru Tempest's story as his push for a human-monster alliance draws resistance from rival demon lords.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 3, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story of swordsman Meng Chuan directly from where its second season left off.

Sunrise brings Rumiko Takahashi's Taisho-era yokai mystery MAO to NHK as a two-cour TV anime.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

Nippon Sangoku begins streaming, a science-fiction drama set after Japan collapses into three warring successor states, following former agricultural officer Aoteru Misumi as he rises to reunify the country.

A third season of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, subtitled ULT, was announced for the ecchi isekai comedy about a socially awkward gamer summoned into his MMO world as its overpowered demon-lord avatar.

The Korea Football Association's national training campus, designed by UNStudio around a 'total football' philosophy, officially opened.

White Fox's Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 begins broadcast, continuing Subaru's search for a way to save Rem, Crusch, and Julius after the costly battle at Priestella.

Studio PuYUKAI's Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Kyuukei Jikan (Break Time) 4th Season begins streaming, the latest run of chibi-style comedy shorts spun off from the Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- franchise.

DC Water lowered the tunnel boring machine Mary into a 100-foot-deep shaft in West Potomac Park and started her north towards Georgetown University, the first 2.4 miles of a 5.5-mile combined sewer overflow tunnel. The $819 million tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project and will cut Potomac overflow events from 74 a year to four; a second Herrenknecht machine, Emily, bores south towards Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

Anthropic makes Claude Opus 4.7 generally available, a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, especially on the hardest tasks.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.

Antoine Fuqua's musical biopic stars Michael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson as the pop icon, tracing his life from childhood through his early solo career.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

Construction begins on Stix Asia's 18,000-square-foot Las Vegas food hall in the former Sundry space at UnCommons, with a dozen restaurants planned and a fall 2026 opening. A sakura tree will anchor the centre of the room.

Microsoft's license to OpenAI's models and products becomes non-exclusive through 2032 and OpenAI may sell on any cloud, while OpenAI's revenue-share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 under a total cap and Microsoft stops paying one back.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

Chef Tae Strain opens a 12-seat tasting-menu counter on a hilltop farm and vineyard in the Maryland countryside, serving farm produce on plates made from its own clay.

Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

The one-off special My Hero Academia More premieres, checking in on the grown former students of Class 1-A in Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero series after the main story’s end.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.

Sable Offshore posted a $197.0 million net loss for Q1 2026 after resuming oil sales from the Santa Ynez Unit under a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Production Act order, and ended the quarter with $956.3 million of short-term debt against $52.2 million in cash.

The video-game sequel pits Warner Bros.' fighters against Shao Kahn, with Karl Urban joining the returning cast from the 2021 reboot.

LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.

After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.

First-quarter revenue rose 44% to $214.4 million and adjusted EBITDA rose 296% to $16.1 million, while $81.8 million of non-cash warrant and stock costs left a $79.6 million net loss. Backlog stood at $2.7 billion and the pipeline passed $14 billion.