By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN

New York (CNN) — Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world’s largest company, measured by sales, breaking Walmart’s 13-year streak at the top of the list.

Amazon posted $717 billion in sales in 2025. Walmart, the largest company in the world for more than a decade, recorded $713 billion in sales in 2025, the retailer announced Thursday.

Although the two companies are significant competitors in consumer retail, Amazon’s revenue growth in cloud computing, advertising and other businesses helped it overtake Walmart.

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore, but the company brought in nearly $129 billion in sales last year from its Amazon Web Services division. AWS provides a vast network of computing, storage and artificial intelligence options to companies and governments around the world. AWS is also a key profit driver for Amazon and helps the company offset losses from its retail business.

The majority ($464 billion) of Amazon’s revenue last year came from sales on its online and physical stores as well as from third-party sellers. Amazon also brought in more than $100 billion combined from advertising and Prime subscriptions.

By contrast, more than 90% of Walmart’s sales come from its physical stores and websites.

Despite Amazon’s rapid rise, Walmart has adapted and is in its strongest shape in years.

Walmart’s business in the United States is surging and it’s gaining market share from rivals like Target. Walmart moved its stock listing to the Nasdaq, signaling to investors it wants to be thought of as a tech company.

Walmart, led by new CEO John Furner, said Thursday that US sales grew 4.6% last quarter.

“The pace of change in retail is accelerating,” Furner said in a statement. “Our financial results show that we’re not only embracing this change, we’re leading it.”

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Un par de agentes federales de inmigración vestidos de camuflaje y máscaras se acercaron el mes pasado al automóvil de Ryan Ecklund en una calle nevada de Minnesota con una severa advertencia.

“No nos seguirás más”, le dijo un agente, “o serás arrestado”.

Mientras Ecklund seguía la camioneta beige de los agentes y los grababa, pronto descubrió que su ciudadanía estadounidense no lo protegía de ser sacado del auto y esposado. Los agentes lo llevaron a una oficina del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) en Minneapolis y lo registraron en una mesa con un letrero escrito a mano: “USC 111”.

Como Ecklund supo más tarde, el cartel hacía referencia a una ley federal antes desconocida, el Título 18 del Código de Estados Unidos, que se ha convertido en una herramienta clave utilizada por los agentes de inmigración para detener a ciudadanos estadounidenses. Mientras los residentes han intentado protestar y documentar los arrestos en Minneapolis, Chicago y otras ciudades haciendo sonar silbatos, bloqueando calles y grabando a los agentes, los agentes de inmigración han respondido cada vez más arrestando a personas por “obstaculizar” sus operaciones, alegando que dichas acciones violan la ley.

Una revisión de CNN de los registros judiciales federales reveló que el Gobierno de Trump ha ampliado drásticamente el uso de dicha ley. Los fiscales federales en zonas que han experimentado intensas protestas —los cuatro distritos que abarcan Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Ángeles y Portland— imputaron a aproximadamente 12 veces más personas bajo la ley durante el primer año del Gobierno Trump que durante el último año del de Biden.

Pero estas acusaciones a menudo se desmoronan si se ponen a prueba, descubrió CNN.

En Minneapolis, decenas de personas, incluyendo a Ecklund, han sido arrestadas y detenidas durante horas, pero nunca se les han imputado cargos, según los abogados que trabajan en los casos y los expedientes judiciales. Varios de los casos presentados en las últimas semanas ya han sido desestimados por la fiscalía o reducidos de delitos graves a delitos menores.

En Los Ángeles, los cinco procesos bajo el estatuto que han ido a juicio desde el verano pasado han resultado en absolución. Muchos casos que no llegaron a juicio, ni allí ni en Chicago, han sido desestimados, han concluido con un acuerdo de culpabilidad o solo han resultado en una citación civil con multa, mientras que otros siguen pendientes.

Si bien algunos de los acusados supuestamente violaron otras partes de la ley, como agredir a los agentes o resistirse al arresto, muchos otros arrestados fueron acusados solo de obstaculizar a los agentes mientras protestaban por sus operaciones, dijeron los abogados.

Decenas de videos de teléfonos celulares y cámaras corporales revisados por CNN muestran que los agentes de inmigración amenazan rutinariamente con arrestar a las personas que los siguen o filman videos de ellos, a veces citando específicamente el estatuto.

Esto ocurre a pesar de que altos funcionarios del Gobierno de Trump, incluido el jefe interino de ICE, Todd Lyons, reconocieron ante el Congreso la semana pasada que grabar a los agentes en público y gritarles a los agentes no viola la ley federal.

Los expertos legales dicen que los registros judiciales y los videos muestran que el Gobierno a menudo abusa de la ley para atacar actividades protegidas por la Primera Enmienda, en lugar de usarla para defender a los funcionarios federales.

“Cuando ejerces tus derechos bajo la Primera Enmienda, eso no te impide hacerlo”, dijo el abogado de derechos civiles de Minnesota, James Cook. “Parece que su objetivo final es simplemente arrestar a disidentes y a quienes, en g

By Kristen Rogers, CNN

(CNN) — A woman hands her 9-month-old baby girl a pepper-dusted stick of golden grass-fed butter on a silver platter in one TikTok post. Another gives her toddler pats of butter out of “pure desperation” to keep her “always-hungry” toddler fuller longer after meals.

One of the latest TikTok trends among parents is feeding babies butter in amounts ranging from spoonfuls to whole sticks. Consuming it at this age supposedly provides benefits such as a good night’s sleep, healthy development and longer satisfaction after meals, these influencers say.

Multiple TikToks show women feeding their infants spoonfuls of butter before bed, saying that has helped their babies finally sleep up to 12 hours straight through the night. Sometimes the mother even mixes the butter into a baby’s bottle of milk. Another post claims you can give your child an unlimited amount of butter — grass-fed and unsalted, specifically — until the little one is 2 years old.

In all these videos, the tiny humans happily chow down on their butter snacks. And the posts do tend to trigger horrified reactions from other TikTok users. The backlash is rooted in longstanding scientific research and expert guidance linking high consumption of saturated fat with cardiovascular diseases — the top killer of adults worldwide.

Experts CNN interviewed, however, say these parents are partially right — due to the intense energy demands of developmental growth during infancy, saturated fat guidelines for babies vastly differ from those for adults. Babies’ reliance on breast milk or formula is the primary example of the importance of fat in their diet, with fat accounting for about 50% of the calories in both substances, said Amy Reed, a registered dietitian nutritionist in Cincinnati and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

However, experts also noted there are other issues that a regularly high intake of butter may cause or cover up.

“It’s not surprising to me that parents will try all sorts of foods with their children, but giving a baby a whole stick of butter as a food or as a meal is not really in balance in a nutritious meal,” said Dr. Molly O’Shea, a pediatrician in Bloomfield, Michigan, and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

None of the TikTok videos reviewed for this story showed babies eating a whole stick of butter, so it’s possible their parents only gave them whole sticks since they are easier to hold, Reed said.

Still, “butter needs to be thought about as any other food and in balance with all the other nutrients a child needs,” O’Shea said.

Your baby and saturated fat

Parents are right about the fact that there is no limit on how much saturated fat a baby between ages 6 months — typically when they begin eating solid foods — and 2 years can eat. That’s because there’s a “function for fats at that age, particularly with brain development and growth,” Reed said.

The need to decrease saturated fat intake at age 2 and older is due to

By Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — Britain’s former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday morning, becoming the first senior British royal in modern history to be arrested.

It represents an extraordinary development in the ongoing scandal surrounding King Charles III’s brother, which has intensified ever since the US Department of Justice released documents providing new insights into his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

So, what do we know about the former prince’s arrest?

What was he arrested for?

Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police said.

This allegation means wilfully abusing or neglecting the power held by a public office. Police have not said what led to the arrest but Andrew spent a decade as a UK trade envoy between 2001-2011.

Documents released by the US Department of Justice last month showed that the former prince, who was bound by the same confidentiality guidelines as UK government ministers, was in contact with Epstein during his time as trade envoy.

Thames Valley Police had previously said it is assessing whether Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential material with Epstein during this time, as well as allegations that a woman was trafficked to the UK by Epstein to have a sexual encounter with the former prince.

Police have not charged Mountbatten-Windsor with any sexual offenses.

The former prince has denied all accusations against him and insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein is accused. He has not commented publicly on these more recent allegations of misconduct in public office that emerged after the DOJ releases.

Where was he arrested?

Unmarked police cars were seen arriving at Mountbatten-Windsor’s home on his brother’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Thursday, the day of his birthday.

He only moved to this house earlier this month, after Charles evicted him from the royal estate at Windsor amid the fallout from an earlier set of Epstein files.

Uniformed police officers were also seen behind the gates of the Royal Lodge, Andrew’s former residence, on Thursday.

The Norfolk Constabulary, whose jurisdiction extends over Sandringham, has said it is supporting Thames Valley Police’s investigation.

What previous scandals has he faced?

The arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor is the latest development in the yearslong controversy over his ties to Epstein.

He stepped down from his royal duties in 2019 in the aftermath of a disastrous BBC interview during which he attempted to bat away any allegations of wrongdoing.

He said he had “no recollection of ever meeting” Virginia Giuffre, who would later accuse the royal of having sex with her three times when she was a teenager.

She sued Mountbatten-Windsor in a New York court in 2021, accusing him of sexual assault. Despite claiming never to have met her, the royal reportedly paid millions of dollars to Giuffre in 2022 to settle the case, without admitting any

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By Christian Edwards, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — Britain’s former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday morning, becoming the first senior British royal in modern history to be arrested.

It represents an extraordinary development in the ongoing scandal surrounding King Charles III’s brother, which has intensified ever since the US Department of Justice released documents providing new insights into his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

So, what do we know about the former prince’s arrest?

What was he arrested for?

Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police said.

This allegation means wilfully abusing or neglecting the power held by a public office. Police have not said what led to the arrest but Andrew spent a decade as a UK trade envoy between 2001-2011.

Documents released by the US Department of Justice last month showed that the former prince, who was bound by the same confidentiality guidelines as UK government ministers, was in contact with Epstein during his time as trade envoy.

Thames Valley Police had previously said it is assessing whether Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential material with Epstein during this time, as well as allegations that a woman was trafficked to the UK by Epstein to have a sexual encounter with the former prince.

Police have not charged Mountbatten-Windsor with any sexual offenses.

The former prince has denied all accusations against him and insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein is accused. He has not commented publicly on these more recent allegations of misconduct in public office that emerged after the DOJ releases.

Where was he arrested?

Unmarked police cars were seen arriving at Mountbatten-Windsor’s home on his brother’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Thursday, the day of his birthday.

He only moved to this house earlier this month, after Charles evicted him from the royal estate at Windsor amid the fallout from an earlier set of Epstein files.

Uniformed police officers were also seen behind the gates of the Royal Lodge, Andrew’s former residence, on Thursday.

The Norfolk Constabulary, whose jurisdiction extends over Sandringham, has said it is supporting Thames Valley Police’s investigation.

What previous scandals has he faced?

The arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor is the latest development in the yearslong controversy over his ties to Epstein.

He stepped down from his royal duties in 2019 in the aftermath of a disastrous BBC interview during which he attempted to bat away any allegations of wrongdoing.

He said he had “no recollection of ever meeting” Virginia Giuffre, who would later accuse the royal of having sex with her three times when she was a teenager.