NEW: Before he entered the White House, President Trump was a real-estate speculator. Lately, his fortune has been wagered on some Big Tech stocks.
In fact, his pace of trading has grown nearly tenfold in recent months.
See the trades in charts, w/ @karadapena for @WSJ: wsj.com/finance/stocks/trump…
Scoop: Charlie Javice is trying to get a pardon from President Trump. She was sentenced to 7 years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase. She has a close ally in Marc Rowan, the CEO of Apollo, who recently was named to the board of Trump’s Board of Peace. W/@AAndriotiswsj.com/finance/charlie-javi…
Casa Magazine, New York’s “Magazine Mecca,” opens at 8 a.m.—but was sold out of every copy of today’s New York Post by 7:30 a.m.(!), a worker there tells me.
That hasn’t stopped fans from calling the store nearly around the clock today asking if they still have a copy.
The New York Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in 53 years. They’re also the most unlikely title winners the league has ever seen. on.wsj.com/4esfRTl
Elon Musk is officially the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX went public.
His SpaceX stake was valued at around $690 billion at the IPO price, while his Tesla stake makes up around $279 billion of his net worth.
Follow live coverage: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4xqDT9U
SpaceX is rolling out the red carpet for individual investors who want in on its initial public offering. Here’s how to try to get a share of what might be the largest IPO ever: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4xh3nq8
Last night, Graham Platner clinched the Democratic Senate nomination in Maine in the face of growing controversies.
For @washingtonpost, I compiled a timeline of the stream of scandals making some Dems skeptical about their chances of flipping the seat:
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Personal news: after 7 years, today’s my last day @wsj. I’m so lucky to have worked alongside so many amazing people at the best newspaper in the world.
I’m on to something new, which I’ll say more about soon. In the meantime, working on my book. Stay tuned!
Smokes, Kenn Kweder, a Thursday night at Penn... All synonymous, really.
@ConorfSmith profiled the 75-year-old musician who's been a campus mainstay since the 90s.
A wonderful combination of words that should have you running to read more in @34ST:
34st.com/article/2026/06/ken…
Some career news! Today is my first day @WSJ, working on political and government investigations and enterprise. I am beyond thrilled to take on new challenges with some old friends, and to make some new ones in an incredibly talented newsroom that is firing on all cylinders.
With 99% of voting stations reporting, Abelardo de la Espriella took in 10.3 million ballots, or 44% of the vote, to 41% for Ivan Cepeda, a far-left candidate supported by President Gustavo Petro (via @WSJForero)
wsj.com/world/americas/colom…
Bill Gates was once ranked the world’s most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation.
Our deep dive into the fallout, packed with new details: wsj.com/business/bill-gates-…
Trump likes women, and has, in fact, been married to three of them. BUT there’s also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aesthetic—the je ne sais quoi—of a certain kind of gay man. My look at the King of Queens:
theatlantic.com/politics/202…