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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 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.

Sable Offshore reported $137.1 million of revenue and $9.4 million of operating cash flow for the second quarter of 2026, its first full quarter of sales since the Santa Ynez Unit restart, and ended June selling about 40,000 net barrels of oil a day.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

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.