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  • Offices and employees with their pets inside the Mars Petcare HQ, a woman hugs a dog, and kibble production at a factory.

    Love of animals and love of profit? Inside the $500bn pet boom

    From its sprawling HQ in Tennessee, Mars is courting the next generation of high-spending pet owners
  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

  • Uber and Lyft signs are seen in a car's windshield

    Uber and Lyft agree to minimum pay and benefits for Massachusetts drivers

    Ride-share companies sign off on $175m settlement that will give workers paid sick leave and other protections
  • The yellow arm of a construction vehicle with a bucket on the end appears to move dirt, with a scrabby hillside in the background.

    Norway pension fund sells $69m stake in Caterpillar over alleged involvement in Gaza destruction

    KLP divests from US bulldozer company over alleged contribution to construction of illegal Israeli settlements
    • An Alaska Airlines plane is parked at the hangar

      Boeing blasted by US regulator for revealing panel blowout details to media

    • Man puts hands to face in front of purple background

      Elon Musk has won $56bn pay package despite judge ruling it void, Tesla argues

    • The seal of the SEC.

      Supreme court rules that the SEC’s in-house rulings violate US constitution

    • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

      Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

In depth

  • ray kurzweil in a room at singularity, the university he co-founded in mountain view, california

    AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

  • A middle-aged Latino man wearing a navy blue polo shirt with reading glasses tucked into the neck, smiles standing in front of a rack with skateboards, an electronic fly-swatter, and electronics.

    In this Arizona town, business has slowed as a border crackdown ramps up

    Immigration may top many voters’ concerns, but residents here say it’s the economy, not security, that worries them
  • ozempic

    ‘Skinny jabs’: weight-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge

    Alternatives to costly Wegovy and Saxenda will make such treatments more widely available worldwide

    Around the world

    • A WA man has been arrested

      WA man set up fake free wifi at Australian airports and on flights to steal people’s data, police allege

    • Tata steel production plant in Port Talbot, Wales

      Tata to close Port Talbot plant early due to strike action

    • Antonio Calpanchay, now 45, has cut and sold blocks of salt from the Salinas Grandes, in northern Argentina, since he was 12.

      Battle lines redrawn as Argentina’s lithium mines ramp up to meet electric car demand

    • Airbus A320neo

      Airbus shares plunge as plane maker cuts profit forecast

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