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Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesWhen Tim Cook gifted President Donald Trump a gold and glass plaque last month, the Apple CEO was hailed by Wall Street for his job managing the iPhone-maker’s relationship with the White House. Cook, Wall Street commentators said, had largely navigated the threat of tariffs on Apple’s business successfully by offering Trump an additional $100 billion U.S. investment, a win the president could tout on American manufacturing.…

Police and national guards take measures as thousands of anti-ICE protesters are gathered outside of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2025 amid protests over immigration raids. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling, which found that his deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to engage in law enforcement activities was illegal.The appeal came a day after Judge Charles Breyer said that Trump’s deployment of thousands of Guard troops and hundreds of Marines in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which generally bars…

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Wednesday granted post-arrest bail to Shahrez Khan, the nephew of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, in connection with the May 9 Jinnah House attack case. ATC Judge Manzar Ali Gill announced the reserved verdict after hearing arguments from both the defence and prosecution. The court accepted the bail petition and ordered Shahrez’s release. During the hearing, defence counsel Rana Mudassar maintained that Shahrez had been falsely implicated. He argued that geofencing data and police investigation reports did not place Shahrez at the scene. Read: Lahore ATC sends Imran’s nephew on eight-day physical remand…

U.S. President Doanld Trump and the President of Poland Karol Nawrocki meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 3, 2025. REUTERS/Brian SnyderBrian Snyder | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday called demands that his administration release the Jeffrey Epstein files a distraction from his successes, as a group of victims of the notorious sex offender called for those documents to be publicly disclosed.”This is a Democratic hoax that never ends,” Trump told reporters at the White House when he was asked about the Epstein files.Despite Trump’s claim, his fellow Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of…

Investors own more than 131,000 homes in the Las Vegas Valley now.Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.John Carrafiell, co-CEO of BGO, a global real estate investment manager with $89 billion in assets under management, takes great pride in the fact that he sits right next…

This much is clear to us all: The devastating floods, first in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and now in Punjab, this monsoon season are extreme weather events. So why are we hearing people repeatedly mention that Pakistan is accusing India of making it worse by dumping its excess water into our rivers?To understand how dam water release works, The Express Tribune spoke with several experts.Dr Hassaan F Khan, an urban water expert at Tufts University, explained that every dam has two main systems: regular release gates and spillways. The regular gates are used for water supply needs, such as agriculture, and are…

Netflix on Wednesday announced a new update to its “Moments” feature, allowing viewers to choose a start and end point on clips to save and share.The feature, which is only available on mobile devices, was first rolled out last year, for viewers to save scenes that they love — and share them.The new update coincides with the release of the second part of season 2 of the popular show “Wednesday.”Netflix’s new update to the “Moments” feature is looking to capitalize on viral moments in shows like “Wednesday.” The update includes a “clip” option on the screen to adjust the length…

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., does a TV interview in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesSen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to take a 10% stake in embattled chipmaker Intel, calling the investment “a step towards socialism.”Intel announced last month that the U.S. government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company. Intel noted that the price the government paid was a discount to the current market…

Imane Khelif has the right to appeal World Boxing’s decision barring her from events unless she undergoes genetic sex testing but the Algerian is not competing at the world championships as she has not entered, World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst said. World Boxing, which will oversee boxing in the 2028 Olympics, introduced mandatory sex testing for all boxers in its competitions in May, less than a year after Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting won gold in Paris amid a gender-eligibility row. But Khelif appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport — sport’s highest court — seeking to…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, addresses a reception commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for firmly upholding international fairness and justice, staying committed to the path of peaceful development, and making unremitting efforts to improve people’s well-being at all…