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A container ship in the Suez Canal ran aground and blocked the waterway for six days, delaying the delivery of billions of dollars of goods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
If those minerals survived for billions of years and eventually reached Earth, their "remanent magnetization" could provide evidence that magnetism existed in the young solar system and influenced its development.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The vast majority of the billions raised through this tax go to K-12 schools, while the remainder is spent on community colleges and healthcare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
States are competing for billions of dollars of planned capital spending on chip foundries, launchpads and data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
It took nature hundreds of millions of years to evolve a bacterium, and billions to make a grasshopper.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
