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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of the top brands in the United States. According to YouGov’s Best Brand Rankings 2026 report, St. Jude rose one place to No. 6, remaining the only nonprofit among America’s top 10 brands and the brand with the highest reputation score.
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YouGov’s annual report evaluates brands through more than one million public opinion surveys measuring six key indicators of brand health: Impression, Quality, Value, Satisfaction, Recommend, and Reputation. St. Jude appears alongside other iconic companies including Amazon, Dove, Dawn, BAND-AID and Samsung.
St. Jude was also recently named the No. 1 Most Trusted Nonprofit in America for the fourth consecutive year by business intelligence company Morning Consult, ranking highest across all demographic segments, including Gen Z, marking the first time St. Jude has led in every audience category measured.
“We are deeply grateful for our compassionate donors whose generosity and trust in St. Jude prove that hope can truly change the future for children everywhere,” said Samantha Maltin, chief marketing and brand officer for ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude. “The strength of our brand, built on more than 60 years of scientific discovery, dedicated patient care and meaningful connections with supporters, helps St. Jude extend lifesaving treatments to more of the 400,000 children around the world who develop cancer each year.”
Thanks to the support of 11 million active donors, St. Jude is able to maintain its foundational promise that no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
To learn more about the lifesaving mission of St. Jude, visit stjude.org.
About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children. ® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was considered largely incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate in the U.S. from 20% to more than 80%, and it won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
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PONTIANAK, Indonesia (AP) — Thick smoke from forest fires has disrupted airline flights for several days in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province as an intensifying El Niño weather pattern and a prolonged dry season worsen the impact of blazes.
Since Friday, a thick white and yellowish haze has blanketed the city of Pontianak, reducing visibility to less than 1 kilometer (0.62 miles).
Poor air quality and limited visibility have also hampered firefighting efforts, carried out with equipment from Japan that arrived on Thursday.
Across Indonesia, seasonal forest fires are beginning to subside, but thick haze still shrouds parts of the island of Kalimantan. In a written statement on Monday, the Ministry of Forestry stated that the latest monitoring data shows a significant decrease in so-called “high-confidence” hot spots, strongly suspected to be caused by forest fires, in Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan. There are no high-confidence hot spots in Riau province.
“The thick smoke we’re currently experiencing, if we look in the direction the wind is blowing, is also smoke carried here from other provinces on the island of Kalimantan that are also on fire,” said the head of the Disaster Information Task Force at the West Kalimantan Provincial Disaster Management Agency, Daniel, who like other Indonesians only uses a single name.
Residents are also beginning to hope that the smoke from the forest fires, which have been burning for over a month, will soon dissipate so that it no longer poses a health threat.
“Hopefully, we pray to God for His protection; may we be blessed by Allah, and may rain fall once again on the land of Pontianak,” said Aminah, a resident of Pontianak.
Fires continue to burn in several parts of Kalimantan, particularly in the provinces of West and Central Kalimantan, according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency. The Forestry Ministry recorded more than 202,000 hectares of burned land between January and July, an area nearly three times the size of Singapore.
Toxic haze and smoke have caused a health crisis in neighboring countries.
The smoke has drifted as far as the Philippines, more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) away, and breached Malaysia’s emergency-level threshold for air pollution, forcing authorities to declare an emergency last week in the Malaysian part of Boa town in Sarawak state, the Malaysian part of Borneo.
The air pollution has also affected several areas on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing schools to suspend learning activities at school. The toxic haze has affected more than 1.4 million students across the country.
Indonesian authorities have intensified firefighting operations across several provinces in an effort to contain the blazes. The response has included aircraft provided by regional and international partners, including Japan, the United States, Russia, Australia, Canada and Ukraine.
Workers load a boat amid the haze from forest fires at a pier in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
People fish at the bank of Kapuas River amid the thick haze from forest fires, in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Thick haze from forest fires blanket the city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
A boat cruises on Kapuas River amid the thick haze from forest fires, in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
