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Chef Ned Baldwin, a fisherman's son, opens an airy seafood restaurant in Brooklyn.

A federal magistrate judge in Oregon on 30 April 2026 consolidated the Widmia and Gomez class actions over Nike's January 2026 data breach and appointed interim co-lead class counsel; Nike moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint on 17 July.

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.

A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.

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.

The Padres' owners agreed to hand control of the club to a group led by Clearlake Capital co-founder José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones, at a reported record $3.9 billion.

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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its 2026 Met Gala on Monday, May 4, co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, marking the opening of the Costume Institute's 'Costume Art' exhibition under the dress code 'Fashion Is Art'.

Announced on stage at IBM's Think 2026 in Boston, the planned collaboration would pair IBM's AI, hybrid-cloud and consulting capabilities with Aramco's operations and data on agentic AI, automation and materials science, extending a partnership dating to 1947.

VCF 9.1 is Broadcom's private-cloud platform release for AI inference and agentic workloads, promising up to 40% lower server costs through memory tiering and mixed AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware; its release notes are dated 12 May.

Broadcom and VMware International asked the EU General Court to annul the Commission's 26 February 2026 information decision in case AT.40924, in so far as it compels documents held outside the EU and legal advice privileged under US and other non-EU law (Case T-280/26).

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.

Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.

Stella McCartney returned to H&M 21 years after her 2005 collaboration with a womenswear collection in recycled and certified materials, on sale in selected stores and online from 7 May 2026.

Seven consumers filed a proposed class action against Nike in federal court in Oregon on 8 May 2026, saying it passed IEEPA tariff costs on through higher prices and should not keep the refunds it stands to get after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down.

Canada's first WNBA team lost its debut 68-65 to the Washington Mystics before a sold-out 8,210 at Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum.

Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction XXIII totalled CHF 74,846,995 across 225 lots, the highest total for any watch auction in history, led by a Patek Philippe Ref. 2523 'Polychrome Two-Crown World Time' that sold for CHF 7,961,000.

The revived Portland Fire lost their first game 98-83 to the Chicago Sky, but the sold-out 19,335 was the largest crowd ever for a WNBA expansion team's home opener.

Aramco's first-quarter adjusted net income jumped to $33.6 billion from $26.6 billion as it ran the East-West Pipeline at its full 7 million barrels a day to export from the Red Sea while the Strait of Hormuz was choked off. The board held the base dividend at $21.9 billion, 3.5% up on a year earlier.

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.

At a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office, Trump announces a proposed rule letting employers offer fertility benefits outside their health plans, a day after HHS launched moms.gov for expecting and new mothers.

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.

Swatch Group shareholders voted 79.6% against seating US investor Steven Wood on the board at their annual meeting, even after proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS backed him and the company's own bearer shareholders separately elected him with 80.4% support.

The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

Crews placed the final steel beam on the frame of American Airlines' rebuilt Terminal 4 main concourse at LAX, finishing the major structural work before interiors go in.

The Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit's order in Louisiana v. FDA, so mifepristone can again be prescribed by telehealth and sent by mail while the case goes on; Justices Thomas and Alito dissented.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

Drake released his ninth album Iceman alongside two surprise albums announced the day before; they debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Billboard 200, the first time one act has held the top three at once.

Audemars Piguet and Swatch launched the 'Royal Pop' collection, eight Bioceramic pocket watches built around the Royal Oak's octagonal design and priced from $400, sold only in person at 200 Swatch stores worldwide with a one-per-person daily limit.

3 Floyds Brewing's 30th-anniversary Dark Lord Day in Munster, Indiana, the only place to get bottles of its Dark Lord imperial stout, paired the 2026 release and six barrel-aged variants with a metal bill headlined by Napalm Death.

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.

Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge agree to sell Bella+Canvas, the blank T-shirt business they started in 1992 and ran beside Alo, to wholesaler SanMar, leaving Alo as their main brand.