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FinanceAug 5, 2026

Amazon Becomes the Fifth Company Ever to Reach a $3 Trillion Value as Bezos Sells Shares

Amazon's stock surged after strong earnings, pushing its market value past $3 trillion for the first time and placing it alongside Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Alphabet. Founder Jeff Bezos filed to sell about $4 billion of his own shares under a pre-scheduled trading plan the same week.

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US Treasury Chief Says Iran Deal to Reopen Key Oil Strait Could Come This Week

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English News in Levels

Amazon Becomes the Fifth Company Ever to Reach a $3 Trillion Value as Bezos Sells Shares

US Treasury Chief Says Iran Deal to Reopen Key Oil Strait Could Come This Week

Palantir Stock Jumps 13% After Earnings Beat Fueled by Surging AI Demand

Ariana Grande Announces She Will Step Back From Public Life After Her Tour Ends

Archaeologists Uncover a Colossal 2,500-Year-Old Marble Statue at Ancient Sardis in Turkey

NASA Astronauts Prepare for a Spacewalk to Upgrade the Space Station's Power System

Trump Warns Iran of 'Last Chance Before Decapitation' as Qatar Says a Deal Is Being Drafted

Archaeologists Uncover a Rare Two-Level 'Tomb of the Giants' in Sardinia

Astronomers Discover the Solar System's First Three-Lobed Asteroid, Complete With a Tiny Moon

'Sopranos' Star Vincent Pastore, Known for Playing 'Big Pussy,' Dies at 80

SpaceX Reports Its First Earnings as a Public Company

Trump Calls Iran 'Duplicitous' After Tehran Denies Any Talks Are Planned

Ancient Footprints Reveal a Human Relative Was Much Bigger Than Scientists Thought

NVIDIA's New AI Simulator Lets Surgical Robots Practice Operations Before Touching a Patient

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Scores the Second Biggest Box Office Opening Ever

GameStop Swaps $1.4 Billion in Debt for Stock, Sparking Dilution Fears and a Share Slide

Iran Denies Any US Talks Are Planned Monday, Contradicting Trump's Claim

Astronomers Find First Evidence That Two Companion Stars Both Exploded as Supernovae

Archaeologists Uncover Switzerland's Earliest Roman Military Camp, Complete With Gold Coin and Ancient Bread

Prince William and Kate Bring All Three Children to the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Berkshire Hathaway Profit Rises in Greg Abel's First Full Quarter as CEO After Buffett

Trump Says Iran Talks Resume Monday After Canceling Planned Strikes, Points to Hormuz Deal

Engineers Turn a Mix of Everyday Plastics Into Clean Hydrogen Fuel Without Sorting Them First

Modern Humans Carry DNA From Two Mysterious Extinct Relatives Never Found in the Fossil Record