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Members of the U.S. Secret Service counter assault team stand on the stage after a shooting incident outside the ballroom during the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 25 in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Tamara Keith was president of the WHCA from 2022-2023 and planned the 2023 dinner.  The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has long been held at the Washington Hilton, which hosts a lot of high profile events at least in part because of a unique design that is specifically intended for presidential security. There’s even a special entrance for the president and…

Melania Trump says ABC should “take a stand” over Jimmy Kimmel, because she doesn’t like a joke the talk show host made last week. Loading audio narration… First things first: The first lady calling on a media company to do something about its employee because she doesn’t like what that employee said is a bad thing. It’s an attempt to use the power of the White House to silence speech that the White House doesn’t like.And it’s just as worrisome as it was last September, when Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, told ABC owner Disney…

President Donald Trump is reigniting his long-simmering feud with Jimmy Kimmel — and his pressure campaign on ABC and parent company Disney to part ways with the late night host. Loading audio narration… “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post on Monday afternoon.Trump’s call puts a potentially fraught issue on Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro’s plate after the executive took over for Bob Iger just months ago.Hours before Trump’s post, first lady Melania Trump similarly expressed outrage over Kimmel’s Thursday night monologue, in…

Pharma thinks it’s found the next frontier in preventing heart attacks. Novartis, Amgen and Eli Lilly are among the drugmakers betting that slashing levels of a particularly bad form of cholesterol could deliver the next blockbusters in cardiology. All three of the pharmaceutical giants are in late-stage trials to test whether drugs that cut Lp(a) can protect people from heart attacks. If they can, the opportunity could be massive: an estimated one in five people worldwide have elevated Lp(a), and there’s not much they can do to lower it. Evidence from human genetics suggests the idea could work, but drugmakers don’t…

A pedestrian walks by a Domino’s Pizza on Dec. 9, 2025 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesDomino’s Pizza stock fell 10% in morning trading on Monday after it reported weaker-than-expected U.S. same-store sales growth.The chain’s domestic same-store sales rose just 0.9%, lower than the 2.3% bump expected by Wall Street analysts, based on StreetAccount estimates.”We’re not happy with it,” CEO Russell Weiner told CNBC.The pizza chain also lowered its full-year U.S. same-store sales forecast to low-single digit growth, down from its prior projection that U.S. same-store sales will increase 3%.Weiner said he expects more fast-food chains to report…

Proponents of a proposal to tax California billionaires say they have obtained enough signatures for the measure to appear on the November ballot. The measure, proposed by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), a union representing more than 120,000 California health care workers, would impose a one-time 5% tax on Californians with net worths of $1 billion or more.The union said it obtained more than 1.5 million signatures, exceeding the 875,000 required to qualify for the ballot.Called the “2026 Billionaire Tax Act,” the statewide ballot measure is intended to prevent hospital and clinic closures across California and help fund…

In a surprise move, one of the largest hedge fund launches in recent memory is returning money to its investors and striking a deal to invest exclusively for industry titan Millennium Management. Loading audio narration… Nearly two years after launching with $5.3 billion in commitments from high-profile investors, Bobby Jain’s multistrategy firm, Jain Global, is pivoting to manage money for just one client, Jain’s former employer, Millennium, according to an internal memo from Millennium seen by Business Insider and sources with direct knowledge of the deal.Jain Global, which has six offices and over 400 employees — half of whom are…

Disney is shuffling its streaming commerce and data teams as a top executive exits. Loading audio narration… Ajay Arora, Disney’s SVP of product management and engineering, is leaving the company on April 30, product and tech chief Adam Smith told employees late last week in a memo obtained by Business Insider.Arora “has decided to pursue a new opportunity” after nearly five years, Smith told Disney and ESPN product and tech staffers. The product exec led teams overseeing commerce, growth, and account management for Disney streaming.Before joining Disney, Arora was the director of product innovation and growth at Netflix for four…

The late tech billionaire Darwin Deason first put his oceanfront estate in La Jolla, California, nicknamed the Sand Castle, on the market for an impressive $108 million in 2024 before he died in September 2025.Deason, who sold his IT and business process outsourcing company Affiliated Computer Services to Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2009, initially spent about $26 million on the house and an adjacent parcel of land, according to the Wall Street Journal.Over about six years, Deason poured an additional $60 million into transforming the property into a breathtaking 13,000-square-foot mansion, drawing inspiration from Versailles and the Hotel du…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Priscila Barros, 41, who works in social media and freelance marketing. In 2021, Barros moved from California to Texas with her three children; she returned to California in 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I was living in Murrieta, California, about an hour and a half from Los Angeles. At the time, I was separating from my partner, and as a mother of three boys, moving to a more affordable place made a lot of sense. I also thought leaving California would give me…