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‘It was back-to-back explosions’: Iranians recall 48 hours of terror after US attack on port cities
Residents in Bandar Abbas and Sirik regions describe communities in fear and ‘feeling abandoned’ after US strikes
Residents in southern Iran have described two nights of fear this week after explosions shook coastal communities as the US launched fresh strikes on targets including the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik.
US Central Command confirmed the attacks, saying they were carried out to “further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the strait of Hormuz”.
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Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
Hearn, 67, from Maryland, was arrested last month after stopping by the pool on a bike ride. He told several outlets that he was detained for almost five hours after he reached into the water to inspect what he described a piece of the blue liner that was partially detached from the bottom of the pool as he was curious what it felt like.
Continue reading...Former US Olympian pleads not guilty to damaging reflecting pool amid Trump’s renovation
David Hearn is accused of destroying ‘American flag blue’ lining material on the bottom of the reflecting pool
David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to damaging Washington’s reflecting pool after a $14.7m renovation project.
Hearn, a three-time US Olympian, was indicted last week on a single felony count of property destruction. He appeared in local superior court in Washington DC to enter the plea after he was criminally charged over the incident in mid-June.
Continue reading...‘It was back-to-back explosions’: Iranians recall 48 hours of terror after US attack on port cities
Residents in Bandar Abbas and Sirik regions describe communities in fear and ‘feeling abandoned’ after US strikes
Residents in southern Iran have described two nights of fear this week after explosions shook coastal communities as the US launched fresh strikes on targets including the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik.
US Central Command confirmed the attacks, saying they were carried out to “further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the strait of Hormuz”.
Continue reading...Fastest spider in the world? This huge, hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the quickest on the planet
A brown huntsman is the quickest of more than 250 species analysed by scientists in the UK and Germany
If arachnophobes were not frightened enough by the horrific ability of Australia’s huntsman spiders to drag dead mice up the sides of fridges, they now have another reason.
They might be the fastest spiders on the planet.
Continue reading...NSW spent almost $500,000 on court cases they lost against pro-Palestine protest groups
Exclusive: Documents show $117,455 was spent in a single legal fight over laws rushed through after Bondi attack
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The New South Wales government and police have spent almost half a million dollars in legal fees on cases they lost against pro-Palestine groups, including when unsuccessfully defending constitutional challenges against protest laws expected to be struck down.
The costs, outlined in documents obtained by Guardian Australia via freedom of information legislation, include $117,455.50 of taxpayers’ money on a single challenge to controversial public assembly restriction declaration (Pard) laws. Those laws were enacted after the Bondi beach terror attack and were in place during a now infamous rally against the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, in February.
Continue reading...Former top BHP economist urges tougher government policies to push miners to decarbonise
Exclusive: ‘The preferred policy is, of course, a carbon price,’ Dr Huw McKay says, amid slowdown in BHP action on emissions
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A former chief economist at mining company BHP says stronger climate policy by governments is needed to “move the needle” and incentivise tough decarbonisation decisions at major resource companies.
Internal documents, leaked to Guardian Australia and the ABC earlier this year, showed BHP had delayed vast renewables projects in the Pilbara, scrapped a project that would have delivered significant cuts to global emissions, and war-gamed options to push the electrification of its polluting diesel truck and train fleets into the next two decades.
Continue reading...Former Olympian pleads not guilty in reflecting pool vandalism charge
Canoeist David Hearn plead not guilty in D.C. Superior Court Thursday to a charge of destruction of property causing more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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How TIME and Statista Determined America's Best Companies of 2026
TIME and Statista are launching the first edition of "America’s Best Companies 2026," a comprehensive analysis to identify the top-performing companies in the United States. The study is based on three primary dimensions: Employee Satisfaction, Financial Performance, and Sustainability Transparency (ESG).
Methodology
The first dimension, Employee Satisfaction, is based on survey data from a large sample of approximately 217,000 employees from U.S. companies over the last three years. The evaluation encompassed recommendations of companies as well as evaluations of employers across the dimensions image, atmosphere, working conditions, salary, workplace and equality by verified employees.
The second dimension, Financial Performance, was assessed using data from Statista’s revenue database, which contains company financial data for the last five years. The companies had to meet certain criteria to be considered for the evaluation, including generating a revenue of at least $100 million in 2025. We evaluated financial performance on a variety of metrics, including short-term (2023-2025) and long-term (2021-2025) revenue growth, both in relative and absolute terms, changes in net income, asset growth, and the evolution of the company’s return on assets (ROA) (all 2023-2025).
The third dimension, Sustainability Transparency, was evaluated based on ESG data among standardized KPIs from Statista’s ESG Database and targeted data research. To formulate a comprehensive ESG index, multiple Key Performance Indicators were collected. For the environmental evaluation, this included the 2024 carbon emissions intensity and reduction rate compared to 2022, as well as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) score. The social dimension assessed the share of women on the board of directors and the existence of a human rights policy. The governance dimension evaluated whether a company had a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report adhering to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines and a compliance or anti-corruption guideline.
Once the data was collected and evaluated, it was consolidated and weighted within a scoring model. The scores of all three dimensions were added on an equal percentage basis to form the final ranking score of a maximum 100 points. The 1,000 companies with the highest score were awarded as America’s Best Companies 2026 by TIME and Statista.
Legionnaires’ outbreak rocks New York as experts warn of rising climate threat
Officials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan
A New York outbreak of legionnaires’ disease, a rare but severe form of pneumonia, highlights the microbe’s growing and disproportionate impacts in a warming climate.
At least 28 people have been sickened in an outbreak on the Upper East Side, a wealthy neighborhood between Central Park and the East River in Manhattan. Health department officials, seeking to stop the outbreak, have sampled water from nearly 160 building cooling towers to test for the bacteria.
Continue reading...‘Injustice and pain’: Justin Baldoni makes first public statement on Blake Lively lawsuit
It Ends With Us director and his wife, Emily, shared five-minute Instagram video on ‘traumatic’ experience
Justin Baldoni has spoken out about his legal battle with Blake Lively for the first time.
In a five-minute Instagram video recorded with his wife, Emily, Baldoni talked about the “injustice and pain” that he says the couple endured in the year-long legal battle with his It Ends With Us co-star.
Continue reading...Trump’s consumer protection head has earned grudging respect – but does he have the authority to do his job?
Chris Mufarrige has taken aim at Facebook scams and junk fees, but consumer advocates say he has an uphill climb
As the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection bureau, Chris Mufarrige is the top enforcer protecting Americans against predatory companies.
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Continue reading...[Перевод] Сколько элементарных частиц существует на самом деле?
Каждый раз, когда я пишу о физике элементарных частиц, я сталкиваюсь с моментом неопределённости относительно величины, которая, на первый взгляд, должна быть ясной. Сколько видов элементарных частиц, по-вашему, существует?
В экспериментах на Большом адронном коллайдере физики сталкивают пучки протонов, разбивая их на все возможные элементарные частицы. При этом у них есть невероятно точный набор математических уравнений, описывающих эти строительные блоки материи и все способы их соединения. Итак, поскольку известные частицы природы можно как эмпирически наблюдать, так и теоретически описать, можно было бы подумать, что их также легко можно сосчитать. Но, увы, нет. Я уже знала, что по причинам, которые мы увидим, подсчёт не так прост, как кажется.
Поэтому недавно я написала нескольким физикам, чтобы спросить, как каждый из них лично подсчитывает фундаментальные составляющие природы. Первый признак того, насколько сложен этот вопрос, проявился в ответе Дэвида Тонга, физика из Кембриджского университета и автора учебников, когда мы назначали видеозвонок: «Думаю, правильный ответ на ваш вопрос — не целое число!»
Читать далееGeorge Cottrell referred to Nigel Farage as ‘daddy’, says ex-Reform candidate
Exclusive: Questions grow over convicted fraudster’s role in Reform UK as party says he has never held official position
George Cottrell was routinely introduced as Nigel Farage’s chief of staff before the 2024 general election despite denials that he had any official role, according to a Reform UK candidate who stood aside for the party leader.
Others who have been closely involved in the party have also claimed Cottrell arranged the Land Rovers that ferried Reform’s newly elected MPs to parliament, and that he covered the cost of a fundraising lunch with potential donors before the national vote.
Continue reading...America's Best Companies of 2026
American companies have dominated global markets for some time, but in the past few years, experts have become less certain about the future of America’s economic power and influence as a result of new tariffs, export controls, and the worldwide backlash against them. However, even in uncertainty, U.S. stocks have remained strong, and stateside companies continue to grow and expand domestically and abroad.
To identify the top-performing companies in the U.S., TIME partnered with Statista to evaluate and rank the most prominent firms in the country based on employee satisfaction, financial performance, and sustainability transparency. Both public companies and private companies that report their financial and sustainability data were considered. The top 1000 companies were named to America’s Best Companies of 2026.
Methodology: How TIME and Statista Determined America's Best Companies of 2026
While U.S. companies dominated TIME’s annual World’s Best Companies list in 2025, America’s Best Companies focuses more on the strength of financial performance over revenue growth. This explains why Apple, ranked no. 2 on this list, did not appear on World’s Best Companies of 2025—Apple had a slight revenue decrease between 2022 and 2024, the study period for that list. The tech giant has since resumed growth and is doing quite well now, says Jonathan Vincent, a data analyst at Statista. Because the list values sustainability in growth, companies that post strong revenues while reducing their carbon emissions, like Adobe (no. 7), also rose from their World ranks.
Despite the overall trend of tech dominance in the U.S., this year, some health care companies have broken into the top 10—weight-loss pill maker Eli Lilly at no. 5 and cancer treatment behemoth Merck at no. 9. Investment firm UBS wrote in an online research note on June 30 that the healthcare sector has consistently outperformed the S&P 500 due in part to healthcare coverage and access expansion for obesity drugs, as Medicare patients begin qualifying for them, oral pills draw in new users, and generics expand its reach to markets outside the U.S. The firm wrote that the pharmaceutical industry, which makes up a third of health care, is predicted to grow rapidly: “In fact, the S&P 500 Pharma index’s 7.1% year-to-date gain has outperformed the Magnificent 7, with GLP-1 drugs shifting the paradigm in obesity treatment.”
Led by recent positive clinical results from Lilly, Roche, and AstraZeneca, the $100 billion market for GLP-1 could potentially include other medical areas like cardiovascular, kidney, liver, arthritis, and sleep apnea disorders as the drugs evolve to treat not just diabetes and obesity, but all kinds of metabolic conditions.
In Q1 2026, Lilly reported a quarterly earning of $19.8 billion worldwide, up 56% from last year, with Mounjaro and Zepbound together accounting for $12.9 billion. The company is also continuing to test new therapies to maintain its lead in the metabolic health market; a cholesterol-lowering treatment it’s developing with Verve has shown promising early efficacy.
Merck reported Q1 2026 revenues of $16.3 billion led by its strong portfolio in oncology and animal health. “We're in the midst of initial launches of over 20 new products,” said CEO Robert Davis on the earnings call in April, “almost all of which have blockbuster potential across a broad set of therapeutic areas.” The move to diversify and re-design their portfolio is timely as the company’s blockbuster cancer immunotherapy, Keytruda (which accounted for $8 billion of their Q1 revenue), has patents set to expire in 2028.
Healthcare is becoming a top field for new grads as well, with separate analyses and surveys from Goldman Sachs, Glassdoor, and National Society of High School Scholars in 2025 indicating that younger professionals are increasingly choosing jobs in healthcare over tech.
See the full list of America’s Best Companies of 2026 below:
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Canada's Best Companies of 2026
Canada’s economy has rebounded well following uncertainties posed by geopolitical tension and U.S. tariffs, and small to large businesses are growing. To provide insight into the leading 125 Canadian companies, TIME partnered with data firm Statista on the second edition of Canada’s Best Companies, evaluating firms on revenue, employee satisfaction, and sustainability transparency.
Methodology: How TIME and Statista Determined Canada's Best Companies of 2026
In April, Canada reported its largest trade surplus since before President Donald Trump imposed tariffs in February 2025, driven by crude oil—it increased from $1.8 billion in March to $2.7 billion in April. Additionally, Canada’s biggest banks, led by TD Bank (no. 1 on the list) and Royal Bank of Canada (no. 8), had surprisingly strong earnings throughout 2025. According to CBC, while some of this is due to one time deals like TD Bank’s sale of Charles Schwab in February, a majority is due to higher net interest margins (they charge consumers higher interest for borrowing money than they pay for people to keep money in a savings account). Of the non-interest revenues, Canadian banks also made money from underwriting and advising deals from large businesses and wealth management fees, both of which are highly profitable if the stock market is performing well overall. And it was—the Canadian stock market hit record highs in 2025, according to Morningstar.
Further, homegrown brands like Lululemon (no. 2) had opportunities for global exposure when they outfitted Team Canada for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Lululemon is also working on more technical performance-geared apparel across different sports to expand beyond the yoga space it started in.
See the full list of Canada’s Best Companies of 2026 below: