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Stories on today’s show includes:
– President Donald Trump headlined a scaled-down White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday, three months after the original event was cut short by a gunman who allegedly sought to assassinate the president.
– Trump has increasingly flashed frustration with the war in Iran, as the conflict that his team once predicted would end in a matter of weeks stretches into its fifth month and fighting intensifies.
– SpaceX’s Starship deployed upgraded Starlink satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, advancing Elon Musk’s IPO-fueled plans to scale his dominant rocket business into an artificial intelligence and satellite communications empire.
– The Houthis claimed to have struck Saudi Arabia with missiles on Saturday morning, deepening their involvement in the Middle East war, while the US appeared to end a run of 13 days of strikes on Iran.
– Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, adding to a frenzy of deals by the world’s most valuable company.
– US measles cases in 2026 have already outpaced last year’s total and have reached a level not seen in more than three decades.
– The cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s sickened thousands of people in the US is spreading further, as federal health officials linked four more states to tainted iceberg lettuce imported from Mexico.
Today’s show includes conversations with:
– Bloomberg News White House Reporter Jeff Mason
-Dr. Amesh Adalja, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Bloomberg School of Public Health Senior Scholar
– Corey Hinderstein, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace, Vice President for Studies
– Karen Young, Political Economy Professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
– Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO