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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

It will "create thousands of high-quality jobs, contribute billions to the national economy, and help ensure that the breakthroughs of the future are developed here in the UK," he added.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Scientists will use this information to investigate around 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars, and unusual cosmic events that may include objects or phenomena never previously observed.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Bio-Rad’s peers, including Thermo Fisher Scientific and Danaher, have spent tens of billions on acquisitions in recent years, while private-equity firms have also been more active.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you.

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