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A NEW ERA OF U.S.-JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order implementing the framework agreement between the United States and Japan that he announced on July 22, 2025. The framework agreement provides American producers and manufacturers well over $15 billion of unprecedented access to Japanese markets while still accounting for U.S. national security needs. American …

Members of the U.S. Park Police guard an entrance to the 9th Street tunnel in front of the Smithsonian Castle on Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C., after the Trump administration initiated a federal takeover of D.C. police and deployed the National Guard in the city. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images In a letter sent …

Last night, President Donald J. Trump and the First Lady hosted an extraordinary gathering of technology industry leaders at the White House for discussions centered on harnessing artificial intelligence to propel the U.S. to the forefront of global innovation. Building on the Trump Administration’s visionary AI Action Plan and the First Lady’s leadership to support AI education, this public-private collaboration …

The scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people—cutthroat competitors all—united here …

Elon Musk absent from Trump’s White House dinner with US tech leaders  Euronews.com Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal Apple, Meta, Google CEOs Dined With Trump. Where AI Trade Goes From Here and 4 Other Things to Know Today.  Barron’s Elon Musk says he was invited to White House reception but will not …

Illustration: María Jesús Contreras “Can you hear this sound?” Sabrina Impacciatore asks, holding up her laptop on a summery succulent-filled patio. “It’s the crickets singing. They sing all day long. It’s incredible.” The eternally enthusiastic Italian actress is at her escape on the island of Formentera — near Ibiza, she explains, gesticulating wildly as she maps the Mediterranean for me …

Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner  The Wall Street Journal Elon Musk says he was invited to White House reception but will not attend  CNN Zuckerberg, Gates and Altman lavish praise on Trump at dinner  Axios Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and other tech leaders lauded Trump at a White House AI dinner  Business Insider Trump hosts US tech leaders at …

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was seated next to the first lady at the dinner. Gates previously tried to convince the Trump administration to preserve critical global health programs and to reconsider cuts to USAID. The last time he publicly sat down for dinner with Trump was shortly after the 2024 election at Mar-a-Lago. Gates again pushed for both advancements and …

One of baseball’s ugliest streaks came to an end Wednesday night as the floundering Minnesota Twins allowed the Chicago White Sox to rally for a 4-3 win with three runs in the ninth inning. The White Sox had lost 205 consecutive games when trailing after eight innings, including 72 this season alone. But when trailing 3-1 in the ninth inning …

First Lady Melania Trump will host a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education today alongside members of the Task Force and private sector leaders from American industry. “I predict AI will represent the single largest growth category in our nation during the Trump Administration—and I won’t be surprised if AI becomes known as the …