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- President Donald Trump formally nominated the top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the department’s deputy secretary in a social media post on Thursday
- As the class of 2026 join the race to find jobs, unemployed college graduates in Singapore are taking a last-ditch shot at getting ahead: temporary government-funded gigs that earn them half the median first paycheck
- British lawmakers pressed the government on its plans to protect citizens from scorching weather as the UK experiences its second heat wave this year and the hottest June temperatures on record
- Californians will weigh in on over a dozen different ballot measures come November, a hodgepodge of contradictory decisions with billions of dollars in consequences.
- Indonesia is dangling unprecedented legal protections for investors in President Prabowo Subianto’s sovereign wealth fund, a move analysts warn could attract money with questionable origins
- Lingyi, a Chinese maker of electronic devices, is set to begin trading in Hong Kong on Friday after raising $1.06 billion in a share sale, part of the city’s busiest month for listings this year
- Namibia rejected more than 600 appeals seeking to license which SpaceX subsidiary? Its name was inspired by a popular 2012 young-adult novel by John Green. Place your bets in the latest edition of Pointed, Bloomberg’s weekly news quiz for risk-takers ⤵️
- Jeff Vacirca, a physician and leader of a prominent New York oncology group, is among the final candidates the Trump administration is considering to lead the FDA, according to sources
- Vietnam is due to embark on a $2.5 trillion plan to remake Hanoi. The centerpiece of the project is an upgrade of the Red River, aimed at replicating the gleaming riverbanks of cities like Singapore and Seoul
- Elon Musk is expanding access to digital payment venture X Money to a subset of premium users on social network X, part of his bid to turn the platform into an “everything app”
- Fewer mainland Chinese holidaymakers are packing their bags this summer – and those who do are favoring short-haul destinations in Asia, driven by flight disruptions, geopolitical tensions and a new pragmatic approach to travel spending
- The dollar is wrapping up one of its best months in a year as a raft of Wall Street banks see a turnaround of fortunes for the US currency
