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The oldest restaurant still operating in the United States opened on 7 October 1826 as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House, in a Union Street building already old at the time. Its semicircular oyster bar is the original, and Daniel Webster is said to have worked through brandy and oysters at it daily.

Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.

At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce GW150914, a signal from the merger of two black holes recorded by both LIGO detectors on 14 September 2015 - the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

Chef Nick Goellner opens a Japanese izakaya in Kansas City built around a 20-seat bar that wraps the kitchen, with a deep sake list.

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.

Sable Offshore a accusé une perte nette de 197,0 millions de dollars au premier trimestre 2026 après avoir repris les ventes de pétrole de la Santa Ynez Unit en vertu d'un ordre du ministère américain de l'Énergie pris au titre du Defense Production Act, et a terminé le trimestre avec 956,3 millions de dollars de dette à court terme pour 52,2 millions de dollars de trésorerie.

Sable Offshore a réalisé un chiffre d'affaires de 137,1 millions de dollars et un flux de trésorerie d'exploitation de 9,4 millions de dollars au deuxième trimestre 2026, son premier trimestre complet de ventes depuis le redémarrage de la Santa Ynez Unit, et a terminé juin en vendant environ 40 000 barils nets de pétrole par jour.

Le tribunal fédéral du district central de Californie a rejeté la demande de la Californie de suspendre un ordre pris au titre du Defense Production Act imposant l'exploitation du Santa Ynez Pipeline de Sable Offshore, jugeant que l'ordre fédéral prime légalement sur les tentatives de l'État de le fermer. Le tribunal a aussi transféré la supervision de la sécurité de l'oléoduc prévue par le décret de consentement de l'Office of the State Fire Marshal de Californie à l'agence fédérale de sécurité des pipelines et des matières dangereuses (PHMSA).

Austin Transit Partnership starts building a 9.8-mile line with 15 stations, running three ways out of downtown and crossing Lady Bird Lake on a new bridge. The board picked the Stacy Witbeck-Sundt joint venture Austin Rail Constructors in February 2026; the first trains are due in 2033 and the cost is put above $8.2 billion.

An eight-storey, 138,000-square-foot building on the former County Family Court site in downtown San Diego, with 125 affordable apartments, a manager's unit and about 4,400 square feet of commercial space. BRIDGE Housing is developing it with the San Diego Housing Commission; VCC Construction finished the framing in July 2026.

A new COASTER commuter-rail platform on Harbor Drive between 1st and 5th Streets, by the Gaslamp Quarter, the convention centre and Petco Park, with San Diego Trolley connections either side. The $33 million project also adds a pocket track so trains can run more often.