Alabama put Gregory Hunt, 65, to death by nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The inmate was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m., according to local media reports, in what officials said was the nation’s sixth execution carried out with the relatively new nitrogen hypoxia method.

Hunt had been on death row for more than three decades after being convicted of beating a woman to death in Walker County in 1988. His case became one of the first to test Alabama’s nitrogen gas protocol, which the state adopted as an alternative to lethal injection. Tuesday’s execution proceeds despite ongoing legal and ethical debates over the method’s humaneness.

Linde, a global industrial gas supplier and parent company of Praxair, is constructing a new air separation plant on a 72-acre site at the North Brownsville Industrial Park in Texas. This facility will supply SpaceX's Starbase with essential industrial gases, including liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen, to support its rocket launch operations. The plant is located at 7245 Industrial Circle, Lot 6, in Brownsville and is expected to enhance the propellant supply chain for Starbase, which is SpaceX's launch site near the city. Meanwhile, at Giga Texas, SpaceX's manufacturing facility, construction activities continue with the installation of two large aluminum bath tipping machines for the casting section, supporting recycling and casting processes. Additional developments at Giga Texas include work on the Cortex 2 facility's walls and roof, the new southwest entrance, caisson work, and underground vault construction for the switchyard. A small employee car show was also held on the roof of the parking garage at Giga Texas.

Linde plc reported its first-quarter fiscal 2025 earnings with an adjusted EPS of $3.95, slightly above the estimated $3.92, and sales of $8.11 billion, below the estimated $8.24 billion. The company projects second-quarter adjusted EPS between $3.95 and $4.05 and full-year adjusted EPS ranging from $16.20 to $16.50, compared to previous guidance of $16.15 to $16.55. Meanwhile, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. reported its fiscal third-quarter 2025 results, surpassing expectations with an adjusted EPS of $0.65 versus the estimated $0.31 and revenue of $3.55 billion, slightly above the $3.52 billion estimate.

Despite this, Estée Lauder lowered its full-year adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $1.33 to $1.58 from the prior $2.78 to $2.98. The company also revised its full-year net sales forecast downward to a decline of 8% to 9%, compared to the previous outlook of a 1% decline to 2% growth, with organic net sales expected to fall by 8% to 9%. Estée Lauder's gross margin improved to 75.0% from 71.9% year-over-year. Both companies provided updated outlooks reflecting cautious expectations for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Alabama put Gregory Hunt, 65, to death by nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The inmate was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m., according to local media reports, in what officials said was the nation’s sixth execution carried out with the relatively new nitrogen hypoxia method.

Hunt had been on death row for more than three decades after being convicted of beating a woman to death in Walker County in 1988. His case became one of the first to test Alabama’s nitrogen gas protocol, which the state adopted as an alternative to lethal injection. Tuesday’s execution proceeds despite ongoing legal and ethical debates over the method’s humaneness.

Linde, a global industrial gas supplier and parent company of Praxair, is constructing a new air separation plant on a 72-acre site at the North Brownsville Industrial Park in Texas. This facility will supply SpaceX's Starbase with essential industrial gases, including liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen, to support its rocket launch operations. The plant is located at 7245 Industrial Circle, Lot 6, in Brownsville and is expected to enhance the propellant supply chain for Starbase, which is SpaceX's launch site near the city. Meanwhile, at Giga Texas, SpaceX's manufacturing facility, construction activities continue with the installation of two large aluminum bath tipping machines for the casting section, supporting recycling and casting processes. Additional developments at Giga Texas include work on the Cortex 2 facility's walls and roof, the new southwest entrance, caisson work, and underground vault construction for the switchyard. A small employee car show was also held on the roof of the parking garage at Giga Texas.

Linde plc reported its first-quarter fiscal 2025 earnings with an adjusted EPS of $3.95, slightly above the estimated $3.92, and sales of $8.11 billion, below the estimated $8.24 billion. The company projects second-quarter adjusted EPS between $3.95 and $4.05 and full-year adjusted EPS ranging from $16.20 to $16.50, compared to previous guidance of $16.15 to $16.55. Meanwhile, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. reported its fiscal third-quarter 2025 results, surpassing expectations with an adjusted EPS of $0.65 versus the estimated $0.31 and revenue of $3.55 billion, slightly above the $3.52 billion estimate.

Despite this, Estée Lauder lowered its full-year adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $1.33 to $1.58 from the prior $2.78 to $2.98. The company also revised its full-year net sales forecast downward to a decline of 8% to 9%, compared to the previous outlook of a 1% decline to 2% growth, with organic net sales expected to fall by 8% to 9%. Estée Lauder's gross margin improved to 75.0% from 71.9% year-over-year. Both companies provided updated outlooks reflecting cautious expectations for the remainder of the fiscal year.