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Since 2019, Edison has spent billions of dollars on making its lines safer, including by undergrounding them and installing insulated wires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Tech companies are raising billions through equity and bond sales to fund the artificial-intelligence build-out, with Alphabet announcing an $85 billion equity raise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Funds such as the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF and the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund suffered billions of dollars worth of outflows through the tail end of May and beginning of June, Barron’s reported Friday.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

One is access to money, in the form of sanctions relief and the unfreezing of tens of billions of dollars from its oil revenues.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Astronomers now think there may be billions of these objects.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson