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BREAKING: Two Juveniles Arrested For Murder of 21-Year-Old Capitol Hill Intern | The Gateway Pundit

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BREAKING: Two Juveniles Arrested For Murder of 21-Year-Old Capitol Hill Intern | The Gateway Pundit


As previously reported, a 21-year-old intern for Republican Representative Ron Estes of Kansas was killed on Monday night in Washington, D.C..

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, who was a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was shot and killed in Northwest Washington, D.C. on Monday night.

Police reported that the shooting occurred around 10:28 pm when a group of unidentified suspects fired shots at Tarpinian-Jachym and two others, which included a 16-year-old male and an adult female.

ABC News reported that investigators have stated the shooting was targeted, but Tarpinian-Jachym was not the intended target.

Two 17-year-olds were arrested for the murder of Eric Tarpinian-Jachym.

Per US Attorney General Pam Bondi:

On June 30th, Congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym was senselessly murdered in Washington, D.C.

Thanks to outstanding investigative work from FBI, two of his suspected killers were just arrested. If convicted, they will face severe justice.

We hope that this provides some measure of solace to his family.




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American cinema shines in Deauville at its 51st Film Festival

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American cinema shines in Deauville at its 51st Film Festival

The Normandy beach town of Deauville is welcoming Hollywood heavyweights Kristen Stewart, Pamela Anderson and Kim Novak alongside indie talents at this year’s American Film Festival. FRANCE 24’s Genie Godula brings us the highlights of the opening weekend, as Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville” kicks off proceedings, starring Dakota Johnson and Kyle Marvin. We also hear more about Kristen Stewart’s and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial débuts and the retrospectives providing insight into American film icons. Plus tributes pour in from the world of music, fashion and movies following the death of designer Giorgio Armani.  


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TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card: Earn Up to 85,000 Aeroplan Points†

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TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card: Earn Up to 85,000 Aeroplan Points†


The TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card is TD’s top-tier Aeroplan credit card, and it’s currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 85,000 Aeroplan points†.

To earn the full welcome bonus, you’ll need to meet the following conditions:

  • Earn 20,000 Aeroplan points† with your first purchase
  • Earn an additional 35,000 Aeroplan points† when you spend $12,000 in the first 180 days of account opening
  • Earn an anniversary bonus of 30,000 Aeroplan points† when you spend $24,000 within 12 months of account opening

With our valuation of Aeroplan points at 2.1 cents per point, the total welcome bonus of 85,000 Aeroplan points is worth an estimated $1,785.

This card has an annual fee of $599, and you’ll need to renew the card for a second year to unlock the full bonus.

Everyday Earning and Travel Perks

The card earns Aeroplan points at the following rates:

  • 2 Aeroplan points per dollar spent† on direct purchases with Air Canada®, including Air Canada Vacations®
  • 1.5 Aeroplan points per dollar spent† on eligible gas, grocery, travel, and dining purchases
  • 1.25 Aeroplan points per dollar spent† on all other eligible purchases

As a primary TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* cardholder, you’ll enjoy unlimited access to Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounges and Maple Leaf Cafés† when flying with Air Canada, for both yourself and any authorized users. These lounges are available at major Canadian and international airports, offering a quieter, more comfortable space before your flight.

The card also includes a Visa Airport Companion Program membership, which comes with six complimentary lounge visits† per year to participating lounges worldwide. So even if you’re flying with airlines other than Air Canada, you can still enjoy lounge access.

Spending on the card also helps you progress toward Aeroplan Elite Status†. For every $5,000 (CAD) charged to the card, you’ll earn 1,000 Status Qualifying Miles (SQM) and 1 Status Qualifying Segment (SQS)†.

You’ll also benefit from rollover SQMs, extended eUpgrade validity†, and priority airport services, including priority check-in, priority Zone 2 boarding, and priority security lanes at select airports when flying with Air Canada.

Naturally, a card of this caliber comes with comprehensive travel insurance coverage†, providing peace of mind for both domestic and international trips.

To qualify, you must meet a minimum income requirement of $150,000 in personal annual income or $200,000 in household income.

TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card

  • Earn 20,000 Aeroplan points† upon first purchase

  • Plus, earn an additional 35,000 Aeroplan points† upon spending $12,000 in the first 180 days

  • Plus, earn a one-time anniversary bonus of 30,000 Aeroplan points† upon spending $24,000 within 12 months of account opening†

  • Earn 2x Aeroplan points† on eligible Air Canada® purchases, including Air Canada Vacations®†

  • Earn 1.5x Aeroplan points† on eligible gas, electric vehicle charging, groceries, dining, travel, and transit purchases†

  • Aeroplan preferred pricing, free checked bag, priority check-in and boarding on Air Canada flights†

  • Unlimited Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge† access

  • Visa Airport Companion Program membership with six free lounge visits per year

  • $100 partial rebate for the NEXUS application fee every 48 months†

  • Minimum income: $150,000 personal or $200,000 household

  • Annual fee: $599

  • Offer available for applications approved on or after September 4, 2025.

Maximizing Value with TD All-Inclusive Banking

The TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card carries a $599 annual fee, which is in line with other premium travel credit cards. However, if you also have a TD All-Inclusive Banking Plan, you can significantly reduce your out-of-pocket cost.

This account offers a $139 rebate for the primary cardholder and $75 for the first authorized user. That brings the effective cost down to just $584 for two cards — a compelling deal when you consider the benefits available to each cardholder.

This setup is especially attractive for couples or families.

For example, if one parent holds the primary card and adds their partner as a supplementary cardholder, both individuals enjoy unlimited Maple Leaf Lounge access, priority check-in, priority boarding, and priority security when flying with Air Canada.

And because each adult holds their own Privilege card, they can access these perks independently, even when traveling solo.

If you’re traveling with children, this arrangement makes things even easier. With just two cards, a family of up to four can relax in lounges, breeze through security, and enjoy a smoother, more premium airport experience.

It’s a simple, surefire way to unlock premium travel perks for the whole family — without needing to jump through hoops or memorize complicated fine print.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Esq, Sues Meta For Disabling Paid Accounts

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Mark Zuckerberg, Esq, Sues Meta For Disabling Paid Accounts


Mark Zuckerberg has a really hard time making dinner reservations. People hang up on him constantly. Trying to live a normal life for the last two decades has been tough. He can’t even keep a Facebook page.

That’s because Mark Zuckerberg is a bankruptcy lawyer from Indianapolis, Indiana, and not the cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.

“I can’t use my name when making reservations or conducting business as people assume I’m a prank caller and hang up,” he writes on his blog, iammarkzuckerberg.com. “My life sometimes feels like the Michael Jordan ESPN commercial, where a regular person’s name causes constant mixups.”

Related: Mark Zuckerberg ‘Insisted’ Executives Join Him For a MMA Training Session, According to Meta’s Ex-President of Global Affairs

Now, Zuckerberg (the lawyer) is suing Zuckerberg (the CEO) after alleging that the Facebook page he uses (and pays $11,000 to advertise on) has been repeatedly taken down — five times in the last eight years, he says — but he is still forced to pay. He claims it has cost him potential clients.

In the complaint on Wednesday, communications in the form of email threads from Meta, seen by local outlet WTHR 13News, accuse Zuckerberg of impersonating the company’s CEO, saying the page goes against their “standards of impersonation.” The situation has been ongoing since 2017.

After the report, on Thursday, Zuckerberg confirmed to 13News that his account was working again. A Meta spokesperson told the outlet that the company has “reinstated Mark Zuckerberg’s account, after finding it had been disabled in error.”

Related: Here’s How Meta’s AI Superintelligence Effort Is Different From ‘Others in the Industry,’ According to Mark Zuckerberg’s New Blog Post

“We know there’s more than one Mark Zuckerberg in the world, and we are getting to the bottom of this,” Meta told 13News. “We appreciate Mr. Zuckerberg’s continued patience on this issue and are working to try and prevent this from happening in the future.”

Meanwhile, on his blog, Zuckerberg says he still gets more than 100 messages a day from people confusing him with “the other Mark Zuckerberg.”

Mark Zuckerberg has a really hard time making dinner reservations. People hang up on him constantly. Trying to live a normal life for the last two decades has been tough. He can’t even keep a Facebook page.

That’s because Mark Zuckerberg is a bankruptcy lawyer from Indianapolis, Indiana, and not the cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.

“I can’t use my name when making reservations or conducting business as people assume I’m a prank caller and hang up,” he writes on his blog, iammarkzuckerberg.com. “My life sometimes feels like the Michael Jordan ESPN commercial, where a regular person’s name causes constant mixups.”

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Sen. McCormick demands Trump hit back at Norway over Israel divestiture

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Sen. McCormick demands Trump hit back at Norway over Israel divestiture

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) blasted Norway’s sovereign wealth fund for dumping shares of Caterpillar over its ties to Israel, demanding the Trump administration hit back with tariffs, sanctions and other punishments.

In a fiery letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the Pennsylvania Republican accused Oslo of waging “economic warfare directed by a foreign government against the US economy.”

News of the letter was reported by Jewish Insider.

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) ripped Norway’s sovereign wealth fund for dumping Caterpillar over its ties to Israel. AP

The missive was sent after The Post’s Charles Gasparino reported on Friday that Norway’s sovereign wealth fund divested from Israel while maintaining business ties with serial violators of human rights such as China, Qatar and Turkey.

“As the Trump administration continues to take bold action to rebalance global trade, I urge you to also address the disturbing politicization of sovereign wealth fund investment decisions against American companies,” McCormick wrote Thursday.

The fund at the center of the fight, Norges Bank Investment Management, manages more than $1.6 trillion, including nearly $1 trillion in US assets.

Its ethics council voted this spring to dump Caterpillar stock, citing the Israeli military’s use of its bulldozers in Gaza and the West Bank.

“As he said in the letter, Senator McCormick feels strongly that the administration should take action when sovereign wealth funds engage in economic warfare that is driven by political pressure which is anti-American and anti-Israel,” a spokesperson for the senator told The Post.

“He had a constructive conversation with the Norwegian prime minister, but came away very concerned that this is a prime example of this type of troubling behavior.”

McCormick — a former Bridgewater Associates chief executive who has sparred with Norwegian leaders — warned the decision was part of a larger anti-Israel agenda.

“I respectfully disagree,” he wrote after Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told him the move was not political.

An Israeli military bulldozer manufactured by Caterpillar is seen demolishing a home in the Palestinian town of Nablus in February 2023. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

“While I recognize the value of Norges’ investments of nearly $1 trillion of US assets, I have significant concerns that these decisions are entirely political and are driven by an agenda that has consistently targeted American companies and is explicitly anti-Israel.”

He urged the Trump administration to “put all options on the table,” including tariffs on Norwegian goods, blocking Norges’ access to American financial markets and even visa sanctions on officials involved.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already floated similar retaliation, blasting Norway’s decision last week as an attack on America’s closest Middle East ally.

McCormick also fired off a separate letter to Norway’s ambassador in Washington, warning that he “remain[s] extremely concerned” by what he called politically driven divestment.

“I brought this issue up directly with Prime Minister Støre and was unsatisfied with his response,” McCormick wrote.

The episode has thrown Caterpillar, a perennial target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, back into the center of the US-Israel political firestorm.

The fund at the center of the fight, Norges Bank Investment Management, manages more than $1.6 trillion, including nearly $1 trillion in US assets. Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Illinois-based construction giant has long faced criticism for its bulldozers’ role in Israeli military operations, but American lawmakers see the latest divestment push as a dangerous escalation by a foreign government.

McCormick stressed that Caterpillar isn’t the first victim. Norges has also pulled out of American fossil fuel and defense firms, even ones whose weapons Norway itself purchases.

He warned the administration to “look more broadly at instances of sovereign wealth funds adopting restrictive, unfair trade policies against US companies as a result of political pressure.”

Bridgewater, the Connecticut-based hedge fund McCormick ran from 2020 to 2022, manages slices of Norges’ massive portfolio. Its chief investment officer Greg Jensen even addressed Norges’ 2024 investment conference.

That tie hasn’t stopped McCormick from torching his onetime partner. He said he confronted Norwegian leaders directly last month in Oslo, pressing them to reverse the Caterpillar divestment.

Norges’ clout looms large across the world’s financial markets. Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former White House official, told Jewish Insider the fund sets the tone for global capital flows.

“Norges is such a large player … It moves capital markets with its decisions,” Goldberg said.

“It causes other sovereign wealth funds, pension funds to follow. It causes institutional investors to follow. It really does set trends in investment and an inversion of capital can have impacts.”

Goldberg said Norway’s upcoming elections could turbocharge divestment pressure, with left-wing parties vowing to blacklist more American companies tied to Israel.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already floated similar retaliation, blasting Norway’s decision last week as an attack on America’s closest Middle East ally. REUTERS

“The danger of weaponized sovereign wealth funds … is an ongoing and growing issue,” he warned.

“This is a long-standing attack on US interests, attack on American energy companies, an attack on American defense companies and now an attack on any company that does business with the State of Israel — all of this to the detriment of our national economic security, all of it politicized by the Norwegians by a state-run, state-controlled entity.”

If Washington shrugs off the issue, Goldberg added, “we’re literally allowing supposed democratic allies for whom we provide a blanket of freedom the ability to conduct economic warfare against America and American interests.”

The Commerce Department has not said whether it will respond to the Norwegian fund’s Caterpillar decision.

The Post has sought comment from McCormick, Graham, Greer, Lutnick and the Norwegian government.



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RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health

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RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

In a Finance Committee grilling focused on his vaccine policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard.

When Sen. Bernie Sanders (no fan of the pharmaceutical industry himself) pressed him on his criticism of major medical organizations that disagree with him on vaccines, Kennedy raved that they were bought and paid for by Big Pharma.

The American Academy of Pediatrics? It’s “compromised” because its “biggest contributors are the four largest vaccine makers.”

Oh, and the American Heart Association, too, “has been corrupted by the pharma industry.”

Whatever either outfit’s failings (and each has some), this is pathetically simplistic one-villain-for-all-ills conspiracy-theorizing.

Get this: The Centers for Disease Control can’t be trusted either — because chronic illnesses are on the rise: “When my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease. We [have now] spent $1.3 trillion.”

No: Chronic illness is on the rise because 1) fewer other things are killing us, and 2) Americans’ lifestyles keep getting more unhealthy, with less physical activity, far more overeating and (arguably) worsening diets — not because the CDC “didn’t do [its] job,” as RFK Jr. put it.

Look: The CDC and other agencies direly need to re-emphasize science-backed thinking, to rebuild their resistance to the scandalous politicization that marked their Biden-era work.

But Kennedy isn’t advocating sensible reform; he wants to burn down the public-health apparatus and rebuild it in his image to push his anti-science beliefs.

It’s not just his long record of anti-vax idiocy; Kennedy has proudly displayed his kook obsessions on a host of health-related topics, from cellphones cause cancer to processed foods cause mental-health problems.

Kennedy’s tinfoil hat is blocking out all sense, to the point where he can’t even acknowledge basic facts that don’t align with his priors.

Notably, he refused to give a straight answer when Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) asked if he believes the COVID “vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths”: Kennedy dodged, “I would like to see the data and talk about the data.”

He obviously doubts the vaccines saved lives, but knows he daren’t say so.

That is, he won’t grant the indisputable truth that the jab did reduce the risk of serious cases among the most vulnerable, like the elderly and immunocompromised.

So he can’t make important points about how the feds under Biden went horribly overboard, pushing the vax (and endless boosters) on populations that didn’t need them.

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez claims she got axed last week because she wouldn’t preapprove recommendations from RFK Jr.’s newly refilled vaccine advisory committee, which Kennedy denies.

We may never know whose side of the story is true, yet Kennedy clearly is on the warpath to purge the public-health apparatus of any person, policy or idea at odds with his warped worldview.

America needs agencies like HHS and CDC moving toward a sane center, where decisions are based on data-informed evidence.

The more Kennedy opens his mouth, the more obvious it becomes that letting him call the shots is just trading one extreme for another.



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Elizabeth Warren Turns RFK Jr. Into A Babbling Mess

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Elizabeth Warren Turns RFK Jr. Into A Babbling Mess


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Sometimes you can see the trainwreck coming.

Trump’s HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had been hearing it from all sides on his decision to limit the COVID vaccine, but when it was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s turn to question Kennedy, she laid out how Kennedy lied to the American people about access to vaccines during his confirmation hearing.

Sen. Warren asked:

 While you were under consideration to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mr. Kennedy, you said, quote, if vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. No exceptions. No if ands or buts you would not take away vaccines from anyone.

Who wanted them. Then last week you announced the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer approved for healthy people under the age of 65. In announcing the change, you said the vaccine will be available for anyone who wants it. Now obviously both things cannot be true at the same moment. So let’s clear this up right now.

Secretary Kennedy, will you tell America that all adults and all children over six months of age are eligible to get a COVIDI booster at their local pharmacy today?

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Kennedy said anybody can get a booster, but “It’s not recommended for healthy people.”



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New iPhone 17 Pro leak suggests Dynamic Island is shrinking

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New iPhone 17 Pro leak suggests Dynamic Island is shrinking



An under-the-wire leak suggests that the Dynamic Island cutout may be getting smaller — at least for the iPhone 17 Pro line.

Dynamic Island on an iPhone hides the TrueDepth camera

On Friday, a new leak surfaced on X, showing a dynamic notch cutout in a screen protector that measures 1.5 centimeters. In current-generation iPhone models, the dynamic island is 2 centimeters, suggesting a size reduction of 25%.

The leaker, who goes by @that_one_g3, notes that this size is for the iPhone 17 Pro. They also provide photos of a product on a screen where the Dynamic Island does, in fact, appear to be smaller on the higher-end models.

Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible

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Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner — and Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

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Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner — and Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there


President Donald Trump convened some of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures Thursday evening at the White House, hosting a high-profile dinner that underscored the tech industry’s evolving relationship with his administration. The gathering in the newly renovated Rose Garden brought together 33 attendees, including CEOs from major technology companies, venture capitalists, and administration officials. With 13 billionaires in attendance and many others worth millions of dollars, the event was easily one of the wealthiest gatherings in the history of the White House.

Notably absent from the dinner were Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and former Trump ally, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive and Fortune‘s Most Powerful Person in Business. Musk claimed on social media that he “was invited, but unfortunately could not attend,” though initial reports suggested he was not on the guest list. Huang, meanwhile, has a pattern of skipping high-profile events, preferring direct one-on-one meetings.

The event followed an AI education summit hosted earlier that day by First Lady Melania Trump and served as the first major gathering in the Rose Garden since its renovation was completed in August 2025.

The dinner underscored Silicon Valley’s strategic realignment with the Trump administration, as companies seek favorable regulatory treatment and government contracts while positioning themselves for the AI boom. Several attendees announced significant U.S. investment commitments: Trump asked Mark Zuckerberg directly, for instance, how much he was planning on committing to the U.S., and the Facebook founder responded with $600 billion through 2028.

The event marked a significant evolution from Trump’s historically contentious relationship with Big Tech, reflecting the industry’s recognition that cooperation with the administration serves their business interests in an increasingly competitive global technology landscape.

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The 33 Attendees: Who’s who of tech and politics

1. President Donald Trump

The host and 47th President of the United States, Trump has aggressively courted the tech industry during his second term, seeking investment commitments and closer cooperation on artificial intelligence initiatives.

2. First Lady Melania Trump

The First Lady chairs the newly formed AI Education Task Force, which held its inaugural meeting earlier that day. She sat next to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates during the dinner.

3. Susie Wiles

Trump’s White House Chief of Staff and the first woman to hold the position. The 67-year-old veteran political strategist has been credited with running Trump’s most disciplined campaign in 2024. Born in New Jersey, she began her political career working for Congressman Jack Kemp before joining Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. Wiles spent much of her career in Florida politics, managing campaigns for mayors, governors, and eventually becoming Trump’s Florida campaign manager in 2016. She served as co-campaign manager for Trump’s successful 2024 bid.

4. Sergey Brin

The 52-year-old Google co-founder, born in Moscow in 1973, immigrated to the United States with his family at age six to escape Soviet antisemitism. He earned degrees from the University of Maryland and Stanford, where he met Larry Page and co-founded Google in 1998. Brin stepped down from Alphabet’s day-to-day operations in 2019 but returned to lead AI efforts following ChatGPT’s launch in 2023. With an estimated net worth of $191 billion, he ranks among the world’s wealthiest individuals. At the dinner, Trump praised Brin’s “wonderful MAGA girlfriend,” referring to Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto.

5. Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto

Brin’s girlfriend, who drew attention when Trump during the dinner, is the founder of GG Health Coach, helping people achieve better health through balanced nutrition and lifestyle changes. She appeared starstruck when Trump asked her to speak, expressing gratitude for being in his presence.

6. Sam Altman

The 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, thanked Trump for the administration’s support for OpenAI’s $500 billion Project Stargate infrastructure initiative with SoftBank and Oracle. The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract for AI tools development.

7. Greg Brockman

The 37-year-old president and co-founder of OpenAI, born in North Dakota in 1987, attended Harvard briefly before transferring to MIT, which he left to join Stripe as its first CTO in 2013. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman and others. Known for his technical expertise and leadership in AI development, Brockman played a key role in unveiling GPT-4 in 2023. He temporarily left OpenAI during the November 2023 leadership crisis but returned as president.

8. Anna Brockman

Greg Brockman’s wife, who is Korean-American and became a notable figure during OpenAI’s 2023 leadership crisis when she reportedly cried and pleaded with board member Ilya Sutskever to reverse his decision to oust Sam Altman. The couple married in 2019 in a ceremony officiated by Sutskever at OpenAI’s offices, with a robotic hand serving as ring bearer.

9. Safra Catz

The 63-year-old CEO of Oracle is one of the highest-paid female CEOs in the United States. Born in Israel in 1961, she immigrated to Massachusetts at age six and eventually graduated from the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania Law School. She later worked as a managing director at investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette before joining Oracle in 1999. She became CEO in 2014 and has overseen dozens of acquisitions during her tenure. Catz has been instrumental in Oracle’s cloud computing transformation.

10. Gal Tirosh

Safra Catz’s husband, an Israeli-born former soccer coach who prefers to maintain a low public profile. The couple married in 1997 and has two sons. Tirosh’s Israeli background has influenced his support for initiatives involving technology partnerships between the U.S. and Israel.

11. Jason Chang

The 42-year-old CEO of CSBio, a peptide and synthesizer manufacturing company in Menlo Park, California, holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from UC San Diego and a Master’s in Biochemistry from Oxford University. He joined CSBio in 2009 as director of operations and worked his way up to CEO in 2019. The company provides custom peptides and automated peptide synthesizers to the global biotech community, with a focus on both R&D and commercial manufacturing.

12. Meredith O’Rourke

Trump’s national finance director and senior advisor for his 2024 campaign is a longtime Republican fundraiser from Tallahassee, Florida. She founded The O’Rourke Group in 1997 and has been organizing high-level GOP fundraising events for nearly three decades. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been instrumental in Trump’s campaign finance operations.

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13. Nathalie Dompé

The 35-year-old Co-CEO of Dompé farmaceutici, an Italian biopharmaceutical company, and CEO of Dompé Holdings, was born in Milan in 1990 to pharmaceutical mogul Sergio Dompé. She graduated from Bocconi University with honors in business administration. She is also the partner of investor Chamath Palihapitiya. In addition to her executive roles, she has worked as a model for brands like Vogue and Giorgio Armani. She oversees market development and strategic approval for new drugs launched in the United States.

14. Tony Fabrizio

Trump’s chief pollster and one of the nation’s leading Republican strategists, the 65-year-old has served as chief pollster on five presidential campaigns, including Trump’s successful 2016 and 2024 victories. Born in 1960, Fabrizio graduated from Long Island University and founded Fabrizio, Lee & Associates. He has worked for numerous senators, governors, and Fortune 500 companies including Visa, Bank of America, and Google. In 2017, he received the American Association of Political Consultants’ “Pollster of the Year” award for his work on Trump’s 2016 campaign.

15. Dylan Field

The 33-year-old co-founder and CEO of Figma, the collaborative design platform, Field grew up in Sonoma County, California, and briefly attended Brown University before dropping out to accept a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in 2012. He co-founded Figma at age 19 with teaching assistant Evan Wallace. Despite early struggles and near-employee exodus, Field persevered to build Figma into a design industry leader. The company went public in 2025 with a valuation exceeding $68 billion, making Field worth approximately $6.6 billion.

16. John Hering

The co-founder and executive chairman of cybersecurity company Lookout and a partner at Vy Capital, the 42-year-old dropped out of USC to co-found Lookout, which now protects over 175 million devices globally including those used by the U.S. Department of Defense. BusinessWeek named him a Best Young Tech Entrepreneur, and Fortune included him on its 40 Under 40 list. He has also co-founded cybersecurity firms Coalition and Redacted.

17. Jared Isaacman

The 42-year-old billionaire entrepreneur and commercial astronaut, founder and chairman of payment processor Shift4 Payments, Isaacman dropped out of high school to start his first company, eventually building Shift4 into a business processing $200 billion annually. He founded defense contractor Draken International and has commanded two SpaceX missions, including Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight, and Polaris Dawn, where he performed the first commercial spacewalk. Trump nominated him as NASA Administrator in December 2024 but withdrew the nomination in May 2025 amid his feud with Elon Musk. His estimated net worth is $1.5 billion.

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18. Sunny Madra

Chief operating officer and president of AI chip company Groq, the Canadian entrepreneur has founded multiple successful startups, including Definitive Intelligence (acquired by Groq), Autonomic (acquired by Ford), and Xtreme Labs (acquired by Pivotal). Madra previously served as Vice President of Ford X, overseeing the automaker’s technology initiatives. Since 2013, he has been an active angel investor in companies including SpaceX, Notion, Uber, and Epic Games.

19. Satya Nadella

The 57-year-old CEO of Microsoft, who thanked Trump for putting policies in place for the U.S. to lead in AI, praised Trump’s approach of supporting rather than fighting technology companies, calling it crucial for maintaining America’s technological leadership globally.

20. Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder and CEO of Social Capital and co-host of the popular “All-In” podcast, the Sri Lankan-American investor and engineer has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s policies and frequently appears at high-profile political events. He was spotted outside the White House before the AI education event and has toured key areas including the West Wing.

21. Sundar Pichai

The CEO of Alphabet and Google announced a $1 billion commitment to education and job training in the U.S., with $150 million dedicated to AI-focused grants. During the dinner, Trump referenced Google’s recent legal victory, telling Pichai: “You had a very good day yesterday,” referring to the company avoiding a major antitrust breakup order.

22. Mark Pincus

The founder of Zynga, the social-gaming company behind FarmVille and other popular mobile games, Pincus has been active in Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves as an advisor to multiple startups and venture capital firms.

23. Vivek Ranadivé

The 67-year-old Indian-American entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of the Sacramento Kings NBA team, who is also the founder of TIBCO Software, was born in Mumbai in 1957. He immigrated to the U.S. at age 16, earned degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School, and founded several technology companies, earning the nickname “Mr. Real Time” for his work in event processing software. In 2013, he became the first Indian majority owner of an NBA team when he purchased the Kings. He currently runs Bow Capital, an early-stage venture firm. His estimated net worth is $700 million.

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24. David Sacks

The White House AI and crypto czar, serving as chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, is a member of the “PayPal Mafia.” Sacks was appointed in December 2024 to oversee the administration’s artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policies.

25. Shyam Sankar

The 44-year-old CTO and EVP of Palantir Technologies was born in Mumbai and raised in Orlando, Florida. Sankar joined Palantir as employee No. 13 in 2006 and pioneered the company’s “forward deployed engineer” model. He holds degrees from Cornell University in electrical and computer engineering and Stanford University in management science and engineering. Under his leadership, Palantir has transformed from a defense-focused startup to a publicly traded S&P 500 company. He also serves as chairman of Ginkgo Bioworks and is recognized as one of the top seven people in defense tech.

26. Jamie Siminoff

The 47-year-old founder of Ring, the smart doorbell company that Amazon acquired for over $1 billion in 2018, Siminoff created the world’s first Wi-Fi video doorbell in his garage. He holds a Bachelor’s in Entrepreneurship from Babson College and recently returned to Amazon as vice president overseeing Ring and other smart-home initiatives after a brief stint as CEO of smart-lock company Latch. His estimated net worth is $300 million.

27. Lisa Su

The 55-year-old CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), who praised Trump’s administration for supporting the semiconductor industry, noted the “incredible acceleration” the industry has seen since Trump took office and expressed gratitude for the administration’s support in building the “brains behind all of the wonderful AI” being developed.

28. Alexandr Wang

The 28-year-old former CEO of Scale AI and newly appointed chief AI Officer at Meta was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to Chinese immigrant parents who worked as physicists. Wang dropped out of MIT at 19 to co-found Scale AI in 2016. He briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2021 at age 24. In June 2025, Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, bringing Wang into Meta to head its Superintelligence Labs. He qualified for the Math Olympiad and US Physics Team as a teenager and holds over 70 patents.

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29. Sanjay Mehrotra

The 65-year-old president and CEO of Micron Technology, a leading semiconductor memory company, was born in India. Mehrotra earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and co-founded SanDisk in 1988, serving as its president and CEO until its $16 billion acquisition by Western Digital in 2016. He joined Micron in 2017 and has steered the company’s focus toward AI, 5G, and autonomous vehicles. He holds more than 70 patents and serves on multiple boards including CDW and Stanford Health Care.

30. Tim Cook

The CEO of Apple recently announced a $100 billion domestic manufacturing commitment and praised Trump’s focus on innovation. He was seated prominently at the dinner and has maintained a close relationship with the administration.

31. David Limp

The 58-year-old CEO of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space company, Limp spent over 13 years at Amazon as senior vice president of devices and services, overseeing Alexa, Echo, Kindle, Fire devices, and Project Kuiper satellite internet. He previously worked at Apple for about 10 years and served as venture partner at Azure Capital Partners. He joined Blue Origin as CEO in December 2023 to focus on manufacturing at scale and instilling urgency in the company culture. He holds degrees in computer science and mathematics from Vanderbilt University and a management degree from Stanford.

32. Mark Zuckerberg

The Meta CEO, who sat next to Trump and was the first executive called upon to speak, thanked the president for hosting and noted that “all the companies here are building huge investments in the country” for data centers and AI infrastructure. He recently ended Meta’s collaboration with third-party fact-checkers and has realigned company policies with the administration’s priorities.

33. Bill Gates

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, who sat next to First Lady Melania Trump, discussed his work on advancing healthcare and vaccine technology, expressing his desire to collaborate with Trump on elevating “American innovation to the next level” to cure diseases like sickle cell anemia and HIV. Despite policy disagreements in the past, Gates praised Trump for his “incredible leadership.”

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.



This story originally appeared on Fortune

Why I’m not buying this high-yielding FTSE 100 stock — yet

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Why I’m not buying this high-yielding FTSE 100 stock — yet


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M&G (LSE:MNG) is a popular pick among income investors and for good reason. The FTSE 100 asset manager has a forward dividend yield of nearly 10% that makes it one of the highest-yielding stocks in the UK large-cap index.

But despite this compelling income potential, I’m staying on the sidelines for now.

What’s going on with the M&G share price?

The company reported its half-year results yesterday and it was a bit of a mixed bag for investors. Operating profits jumped 28% to £390m for the period ended 30 June, but this fell short of consensus estimates of £414m.

Positive net inflows, however, was good news following a series of outflows in recent quarters. The M&G share price climbed 2% higher to close at £2.61, which represents a gain of 22.5% in the past year.

On the cost side, the company announced a 200-basis point reduction in its cost-to-income ratio to 75% and expects to continue improving operating leverage through cost discipline and top-line growth. 

That’s good news for shareholders who will be keeping a close eye on stability and cash returns in the periods to come. 

Valuation

Valuation-wise, M&G certainly looks cheap at first glance. It trades on a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of just over seven and a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 0.85. On these metrics, the shares seem to offer good value — especially with a tasty dividend yield of 9.7%.

But let’s compare that to Legal & General, a close peer in the life insurance and asset management space.

L&G trades on a slightly higher forward P/E ratio of around nine and offers a dividend yield of 8.4%. It’s more expensive on paper but that premium could reflect its more consistent earnings performance and stronger long-term dividend track record.

L&G has also avoided profit misses in recent quarters, maintaining investor confidence in its payouts. And while M&G’s capital position is healthy, its reliance on more volatile fund flows makes earnings less predictable.

My verdict

M&G is a high-yield, low-P/E share with an appealing capital return story but it’s not quite the compelling package for me.

The recent profit miss underlines the fragility of its earnings, and I’d like to see a clearer trend of consistent performance before jumping in.

Legal & General looks pricier by comparison, but I think that may reflect its relative stability and consistency, which is something that investors value in this space. 

For now, I think I’d prefer Legal & General as the dependable option within the asset management space, while M&G remains firmly on my watchlist.

With dividend yields approaching double digits, these two companies are among the top dividend payers within the Footsie. I think that alone makes them both worth considering for income investors.



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