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Pratt’s candidacy comes as many voters have grown frustrated over the lack of progress in cleaning up the streets despite billions of their dollars being spent to get people into shelters and permanent housing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

If SpaceX is underpriced by just 10%, Ritter said, that’s billions in profit for the “people and institutions that are lucky enough to get shares allocated to them.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Trainium chips are at the heart of huge investment commitments from both OpenAI and Anthropic, deals that involved Amazon investing billions of dollars into them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

India's central bank has already poured billions of dollars to stabilise the currency, curbed speculative trading and offered a special credit line to oil importers to ease dollar demand.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most–99.99 percent–are no longer around.

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