919 stories · Page 9 of 92
On 2 Sept 2026, Chevron secured new acreage and fiscal terms in Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt and committed over $7 billion to more than double its output to roughly 600,000 barrels per day within five years.
Apple formally elevated 25-year veteran John Ternus to chief executive on 1 September 2026, updating its leadership page and a now-doubled bio that foregrounds recycled materials, longer product lifespans, and repairability as the new era’s signature goals.
On 4 September 2026 VW’s supervisory board unanimously endorsed CEO Oliver Blume’s Future Plan 2030, doubling previously-agreed layoffs to 100,000 and opening the door to Germany’s first Volkswagen plant closures in its 87-year history.
On 28 Aug 2026 the Trump administration struck a 100-year, 17-field concession giving the U.S. a 55 % stake in 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude and vowed to channel the first output into America’s depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve within weeks.
After 15 years in charge, Tim Cook will step down on 31 Aug 2026 and hand the CEO role to longtime hardware chief John Ternus, while Cook shifts to executive chairman.
On 31 Aug 2026, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov—invited quietly by Washington—showed up in Asheville, NC for the G20 finance ministers’ meeting and held a bilateral with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, marking Moscow’s first in-person return to this forum since the 2022 Ukraine invasion despite open European protests.
Washington clinched a 55%-controlled, 100-year venture over 17 Venezuelan oilfields holding 65 billion barrels, with President Trump ordering the crude routed to rebuild the depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
On 31 Aug 2026 the FTC, joined by more than twenty bipartisan state attorneys general, filed suit in Seattle federal court accusing Amazon of covertly inflating ad-auction floors since 2018, extracting tens of billions of dollars from sellers.
On 1 Sept 2026, benchmark government bond yields in the U.S., U.K., Japan and Germany all surged to levels unseen since the late 1990s-2000s as a renewed U.S.–Iran military clash sent oil above $90, stoking inflation bets and a wave of debt dumping.
On 28-31 Aug 2026, President Trump unveiled a deal giving Washington and unnamed U.S. partners majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude—over one-fifth of the country’s reserves—to start refilling the depleted U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
Multi-perspective news analysis delivered to your inbox—free. We read 1,000s of sources so you don't have to.
