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• Remitly has released a new global index ranking the best countries to move to in 2026 based on quality of life, happiness, and safety. • Finland continues to lead as the world's happiest country, followed by Denmark and Iceland, while Mexico and Costa Rica saw significant climbs in the happiness rankings. • Singapore is ranked as the safest country globally due to its political stability and low crime rates, with Iceland and Switzerland also appearing in the top five.

• On June 25, 2026, top insiders at RBC Bearings ($RBC), including Director Dolores E., engaged in a significant "cash-out move" by selling shares of the company. • Despite these insider sales, the company's overall score remains positive due to strong profitability, balance-sheet improvements, and a constructive earnings outlook. • The positive trend is further supported by a healthy backlog and positive guidance, although some short-term technical indicators suggest the stock may be extended.

Experts say move signals greater political interference into public health and will exacerbate opioid overdose crisisHealth programs receiving federal funding must agree within days to new priorities from the Trump administration, including a focus on “parental authority” in education and a move away from proven overdose-prevention methods like harm reduction, suggesting greater political control over public health.The new priorities will likely affect progress against the opioid crisis, and they could signal an attack on vaccination requirements at schools, which are set at the state and local level. The priorities may also weaponize public health to quash “public disorder.” Continue reading...

The Trevor Project non-profit that helped pioneer LGBTQ+ ‘press 3’ option for 988 hotline is being shut out as it restartsThe Trump administration is moving to restart the specialized LGBTQ+ option for youth who contact the 988 crisis intervention hotline – but the group that helped pioneer the idea is being shut out.The Trevor Project, the New York-based leading non-profit for suicide prevention in LGBTQ+ young people in the US, may not be allowed to offer the service it had helped develop for the 988 Lifeline just a few years ago. Continue reading...

Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policiesUK politics live – latest updatesShabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, Alf Dubs has said.The veteran Labour peer who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia said the home secretary’s talents “would be better used elsewhere in the cabinet”. Continue reading...

Ambitious plan to phase out single-use plastic opposed by chemicals industry – while green groups say law too timidA groundbreaking California law that compels packaging producers to phase out single-use plastics is already sparking anger from the chemicals industry and environmental groups just weeks after going into effect.The law, which was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 but only took hold in May, requires plastic and packaging companies to use less single-use plastic, and ensure by 2032 that all packaging is either recyclable or compostable. The big idea is to incentivize producers of plastics to consider the end of their products’ life in order to create better, more sustainable bottles, containers and wrappings. Continue reading...

• Spain's Council of Ministers has approved a €300 million voluntary contribution to the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC). • This funding is designed to support the development of AI factories and the establishment of AI gigafactories within the region. • The move is critical for Spain's ambition to become a leading European hub for advanced computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence.