Tim Cook's tariff refund strategy shows why he's called the Trump whisperer

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Donald Trump, Tim Cook, and JD Vance talk in the Oval Office
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been a regular sight in President Donald Trump's Washington.

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Senators just banned themselves — and their staff — from trading on prediction markets

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Sens. Katie Britt, Bernie Moreno, and Steve Daines
The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Moreno (center), passed the Senate via unanimous consent.

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Senator pushes pandemic-era fraud bill forward, citing Business Insider's report on Chris Brown's taxpayer-funded birthday party

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Sen. Joni Ernst, entertainer Chris Brown, and Sen. Ed Markey.

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Read the email the accused shooter sent to his family before the alleged Trump assassination attempt

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night.

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Donald Trump owns his own social media platform. But Melania Trump used X to go after Jimmy Kimmel.

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Melania and Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' dinner, April 2026
Melania Trump went after Jimmy Kimmel using Truth Social, the platform her husband owns. But she made sure to post on Elon Musk's X, too.

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Trump calls for Jimmy Kimmel's immediate firing

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Trump speaking to reporters at the White House in June 2025.

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Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.

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More than 580 Google employees, including over 20 directors, senior directors, and vice presidents, have signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work for the Pentagon, according to Bloomberg. The letter, which includes senior researchers at Google DeepMind, was sent to Pichai on Monday. “We are Google employees who are […]

Business leaders, including Elon Musk and Dana White, react to the shooting at the DC press dinner

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President Donald Trump appears at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after gunshots rang out.

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Trump seizes on press dinner shooting to push his stalled White House ballroom: 'It has every highest level security feature'

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A rendering of the new White House ballroom.
A rendering of President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, which is now stalled by legal challenges.

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The New York Times says this is why the shooting didn't make its Sunday edition

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News of the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night happened too late to make the Sunday morning edition of The New York Times.

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