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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.

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

MAPPA confirmed a third season of Dorohedoro at the end of Season 2's finale, keeping Caiman's grimy hunt through the Hole and the sorcerers' realm going.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to be easier to read and better paced, with fewer long or bullet-heavy answers.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, stronger across coding, agentic tasks and professional work, with the consistency to keep working on long-running tasks.

Daniel Patterson, best known for Coi in San Francisco, returns to fine dining with a 12-course tasting menu on Melrose Avenue, with his wife Sarah Lewitinn and pastry chef Matt Tinder.

A two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, meant to be built on a high-volume 'unboxed' assembly line. Estimated date.

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA announced the first open humanoid reference design: a Unitree H2 Plus chassis with Sharpa Wave five-finger tactile hands for the body, and Jetson Thor compute plus the open Isaac GR00T stack for the brain, aimed at academic robotics labs.

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

Denver Water finished raising Colorado's Gross Dam by 131 feet, topping out the concrete work that will nearly triple the reservoir's storage capacity.

Mattel's He-Man franchise gets a live-action feature, with Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam and Jared Leto as Skeletor, directed by Travis Knight.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

The MTA started the major construction stage of the 1.5-mile extension that carries the Q from 96th Street to Harlem-125th Street, with new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets. A tunnel boring machine goes underground in early 2027 and trains are due in 2032.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.

The donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.