• WATCH: Trump hosts dinner for donors to $250 million White House ballroom project

    WATCH: Trump hosts dinner for donors to $250 million White House ballroom project

    Oct 16, 2025 06:35 PM EST

    ... Anjou pears, cinnamon crumble and butterscotch ice cream. Among the companies that had representatives at the dinner, according to a White House official, were Amazon, Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Coinbase, Comcast, Google, Lockheed Martin, Meta Platforms and T-Mobile. The Adelson Family Foundation, founded by GOP megadonors Miriam Adelson and ...

  • Meta removes Facebook page that tracked ICE in Chicago

    Meta removes Facebook page that tracked ICE in Chicago

    Oct 15, 2025 02:07 PM EST

    ... our policies against coordinated harm.” Meta is the latest tech company to restrict tools used to track ICE agents on its platform. Earlier this month, Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one ...

  • Wall Street tumbles in its worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

    Wall Street tumbles in its worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

    Oct 10, 2025 08:57 PM EST

    ... with roughly six out of every seven stocks within the S&P 500 falling. Nearly everything weakened, from Big Tech companies like Nvidia and Apple to stocks of smaller companies looking to get past uncertainty about tariffs and trade. The market may have been primed for a slide. U ...

  • Drake's defamation suit against label over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' tossed by judge

    Drake's defamation suit against label over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' tossed by judge

    Oct 09, 2025 09:54 PM EST

    ... biggest stars over one of 2024 biggest songs, which won record of the year and song of the year at the Grammys, got the most Apple Music streams worldwide and helped make this year's Super Bowl halftime show the most watched ever. Vargas said a reasonable listener could not ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. forces destroy another suspected drug boat near Venezuela

    News Wrap: U.S. forces destroy another suspected drug boat near Venezuela

    Oct 03, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... that, he was seen wiping away tears as his children asked the judge for leniency. Combs has already spent more than a year in detention. Apple has removed an app from its store that lets users report sightings of U.S. immigration agents. ICEBlock says it has one million users ...

  • The pawpaw: America's forgotten native fruit finds new popularity

    The pawpaw: America's forgotten native fruit finds new popularity

    Oct 03, 2025 10:20 PM EST

    Apples, oranges and bananas are sold in abundance in supermarkets throughout the country. But some say the most American fruit is one you’ll likely never see in the produce department, and it’s one you’ve probably never heard of. Deema Zein bites into the long history of the ...

  • Bad Bunny tapped for Super Bowl halftime, spotlighting Latin pride and his clashes with Trump

    Bad Bunny tapped for Super Bowl halftime, spotlighting Latin pride and his clashes with Trump

    Sep 29, 2025 09:59 PM EST

    ... s at stake For Bad Bunny, the halftime show is the ultimate stage to showcase his music, heritage and global influence. For the NFL and Apple Music, it’s a balancing act: deliver a spectacle that celebrates diversity without igniting controversy that scares off advertisers.If Bad Bunny leans strictly ...

  • Trump takes tariff war to the movies by announcing 100% tax on foreign-made films

    Trump takes tariff war to the movies by announcing 100% tax on foreign-made films

    Sep 29, 2025 06:00 PM EST

    ... a recent report noting that these films “generated a positive balance of trade in every major market in the world” for the U.S. Barry Appleton, co-director of the Center for International Law at the New York Law Center, warned that other countries may retaliate with levies on American ...

  • Video game maker Electronic Arts to be acquired and taken private for $55 billion

    Video game maker Electronic Arts to be acquired and taken private for $55 billion

    Sep 29, 2025 01:56 PM EST

    ... its shares ending its first day of trading at a split-adjusted 52 cents. The IPO came seven years after EA was founded by former Apple employee William "Trip" Hawkins, who began playing analog versions of baseball and football made by "Strat-O-Matic" as a teenager during the 1960s ...

  • Demand for egg freezing is rising as more people delay parenthood. Here’s what to know

    Demand for egg freezing is rising as more people delay parenthood. Here’s what to know

    Sep 27, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... So a few things contributed to this. First, in 2012, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine removed the experimental label from egg freezing. And then in 2014, Apple and Facebook announced that they would cover the cost of egg freezing for female employees. Like, thousands and thousands of dollars person.