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Oracle Health's new EHR earned ONC Health IT certification and met the DEA's e-prescribing rules for controlled substances, clearing US ambulatory clinics to adopt it.

Lululemon's third Games as Team Canada's official outfitter: a kit with topographic-map prints, deep red to iceberg-green colours and new adaptive pieces for Paralympians, revealed alongside Sidney Crosby as a new ambassador.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a frontier agentic coding model for long-running, project-scale work in Codex.

Aramco signed a preliminary agreement with Commonwealth LNG, developer of a planned 9.5 mtpa export plant near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aramco Trading potentially buying its LNG, and Aramco-backed MidOcean Energy signed an MoU on investing in Lake Charles LNG. Both were among 17 US deals Aramco announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.

The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-1 to fine Caesars Entertainment $7.8 million after state agents found bookmaker Mathew Bowyer gambled millions at Caesars Palace and other Caesars properties over seven years, bringing the year's Bowyer fines to $26.8 million.

A federal magistrate judge fined the plaintiff's lawyer in the Vuori overtime suit and struck his settlement motion after it cited a nonexistent case and eight made-up quotations, sinking a $1.1 million class deal.

Alo pays $90 million, about $1,085 a square foot, for the vacant 82,886-square-foot La Peer Building at 8942 Wilshire Boulevard to become its new Beverly Hills headquarters.

A house at 915 N Kagawa Street, built by Thomas James Homes in about six months, became the first home rebuilt after the Palisades Fire to be cleared for occupancy.

Max Verstappen won the Saturday-night race on the Strip from second on the grid; Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were then thrown out for excessive plank wear, handing George Russell second and Kimi Antonelli third.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.

Abbott began a medical device correction for about 3 million FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus sensors in the U.S. after internal testing found some give incorrect low glucose readings, an issue it linked to 736 severe adverse events and seven deaths worldwide. The FDA later made it a Class I recall.

Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.

Work started on the 456,100 sq m site of the former Yongsan train depot in central Seoul, to be built out as a cluster of skyscrapers including towers of more than 100 storeys on land held 7 to 3 by Korail and the Seoul Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Foundational roads, parks and parking are due by 2028, with the first move-ins from 2030.

Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.

San Diego FC's record-setting expansion season ended at a sold-out Snapdragon Stadium, where Vancouver Whitecaps FC won the Western Conference Final 3-1 in front of 32,502 fans.

The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.

Mayor Daniel Lurie swore in City College trustee Alan Wong as District 4 supervisor at Abraham Lincoln High School, the Sunset's third supervisor since October after his first pick, Beya Alcaraz, resigned a week into the job.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the first government lawsuit against ultra-processed food makers, accusing Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé USA and six others of engineering addictive products they knew made people sick.

Elliott Hill named supply-chain chief Venkatesh Alagirisamy EVP and chief operating officer over technology and operations, eliminated the chief commercial and chief technology officer roles, and put Nike's four geography leaders on the senior leadership team.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced judges Djuyamto, Agam Syarief Baharuddin and Ali Muhtarom to 11 years each for taking bribes to acquit Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau; former court chief Muhammad Arif Nuryanta got 12.5 years.

Salesforce's third fiscal quarter brought $10.3 billion of revenue, up 9%, a backlog of $59.5 billion and Agentforce ARR above $500 million, and it lifted its full-year outlook after closing Informatica.

Salmonella was found in a batch of All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs sold in Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd stores in all 16 German states and online, and the producer called it back.

The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

OpenAI hired Slack chief executive Denise Dresser, a Salesforce executive for more than 14 years, as chief revenue officer; Slack product chief Rob Seaman stepped in as interim CEO.

Qualcomm bought Ventana Micro Systems, the Cupertino designer of high-performance RISC-V server CPU chiplets, to build RISC-V CPUs alongside its custom Arm-based Oryon cores.

Oracle's backlog rose $68 billion to $523 billion on new commitments from Meta and NVIDIA, but revenue came in below forecasts and the shares fell 11% after hours; a $2.7 billion gain on selling its Ampere stake lifted earnings.

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse open a neighbourhood wine bar right beside the Berkeley restaurant, with chef Amelia Telč cooking a short, simple menu.

International revenue jumped 33% while the Americas slipped 2%; Lululemon raised its full-year outlook and added $1.0 billion to its buyback, and the shares rose more than 9% the next day.

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Family Zoning Plan, which allows taller, denser housing along transit and commercial corridors, mostly in the north and west of the city, to plan for about 36,000 more homes ahead of a 31 January 2026 state deadline.

Chubby Group brought its all-you-can-eat wagyu shabu-shabu chain to San Diego's Convoy District, taking over the former Shancheng Lameizi Hot Pot space. Four tiers run about $45 to $98 a head across 90-minute seatings.

The two sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission committed Mexico to a new Tijuana treatment plant by December 2028 and a Smuggler’s Gulch sediment basin before the 2026-27 rains, on top of the Minute 328 projects.

Salesforce signed a deal for Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent that turns company websites into conversations that qualify and book inbound leads, to strengthen Agentforce Sales and Marketing.

A 6-1 vote shuts the Lee Academy Pilot School, Another Course to College and the Community Academy of Science and Health after 2026-27, affecting about 800 students.

The prefect authorised Nestlé Waters Supply Sud to bottle 'Source Perrier' natural mineral water at Vergèze from only the Romaine VI and VII boreholes, with three others disconnected and 24 months of reinforced health checks.