Crypto billionaire Justin Sun showed off a $100K Trump watch after an exclusive dinner with the president — here's everything you should know about him

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Justin Sun received a $100,000 Trump-branded watch at an exclusive dinner with President Donald Trump.

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  • Justin Sun said he received a $100,000 watch at an exclusive dinner with President Donald Trump.
  • Sun, a billionaire and the founder of Tron, is a top backer of Trump's meme coin, $TRUMP.
  • Sun is also known for expensive stunts in the art world and his legal troubles with the SEC.

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Elon Musk says he's getting back to business at X and Tesla: 'I must be super focused'

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Elon Musk says he's pivoting away from government work to focus more on his companies.

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  • Elon Musk says he is returning his focus to X, Tesla, and his other companies.
  • Musk had earlier announced he would step back from his government work during a Tesla earnings call.
  • The tech giant has been at the center of Trump's effort to reduce government spending.

Elon Musk had been the face of

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Read the letter a senator sent to Spotify after BI found 200 fake podcasts on the platform peddling opioids

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Sen. Maggie Hassan has asked Spotify about its moderation policies after a BI investigation.

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  • Sen. Maggie Hassan is demanding answers from Spotify over fake podcasts that pushed opioids.
  • In a letter, Hassan asked Spotify to "take action" on the phony content.
  • Hassan's letter comes after a BI investigation found 200 podcasts on Spotify peddling opioids.

A senator is demanding

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McDonald's shuts down its spin-off, CosMc's, after less than 3 years as sales lag

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McDonald's announced that it is closing its spin-off, CosMc's.

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  • McDonald's is closing its CosMc's spin-off drink shops.
  • CosMc's, which launched in 2023, drew comparisons to coffee shops like Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.
  • McDonald's sales declined this year amid economic uncertainty.

McDonald's announced on Friday that it is closing its CosMc's spin-off line of Starbucks-style

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I moved in with my 81-year-old grandmother during college. It was exactly what I needed.

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The author (right) and her grandmother.

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  • In 2002, I moved in with my grandmother while going to college.
  • She was 81 and I was 19, and it was the perfect setup for both of us.
  • We loved having each other to have dinner with and chat with at the end of the day.

When I told my parents that I had been accepted to Bath University in the UK, they quickly said there was no way I was going

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Former OceanGate staffers say CEO Stockton Rush 'wanted fame' and describe him as a 'borderline psychopath' in new Netflix documentary trailer

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Stockton Rush, the late CEO of OceanGate.

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  • Netflix is releasing a documentary about the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster.
  • The sub imploded in 2023 while descending to view the Titanic wreck, killing all five people on board.
  • The documentary takes a closer look at the incident and the late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

An upcoming Netflix documentary is set to take a closer

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See inside the E-4B 'Nightwatch,' nicknamed the 'doomsday plane' for its ability to help US presidents survive nuclear war

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The E-4B "Nightwatch" is also known as the "doomsday plane."

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  • The E-4B "Nightwatch" is nicknamed the "doomsday plane" because it can survive a nuclear attack.
  • In the event of nuclear war, it would serve as the US military's command and control center.
  • It is the US Air Force's most expensive plane to operate, at $159,529 per hour.

Air Force One is known as the "flying Oval

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