Why it matters: This is the first time President Trump has weighed in on NBC's story that federal investigators wiretapped his personal lawyer Michael Cohen's phone lines, which was later corrected to say his calls were only "monitored." Yet despite NBC's misstep, the federal investigation involving Trump's "fix-it" man is rapidly gaining speed, and has several people in the White House concerned about what could be revealed.
Kenan Thompson on "SNL" in 2018. Photo: Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty Images
Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured "Saturday Night Live" cast member, will host the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 25.
And Hasan Minhaj — host of Netflix’s "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," and the entertainer at the 2017 dinner — will return as featured entertainer.
Mike Bloomberg speaks at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Va., on Saturday. Photo: James H. Wallace/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP
Money alone can’t buy a presidential election, but it surely gets you VIP access.
Why it matters: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is duking it out with Billionaire Donald Trump, often on Billionaire Jack Dorsey’s Twitter and in ads on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, all chronicled in Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.
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Banks have been quietly rolling out biometrics to identify customers — verifying them by their fingerprint, voice or eye scan — and retailers like Amazon are getting into the game.
Why it matters: These companies are amassing giant databases of our most personal information — including our gait, how we hold our cellphones, our typing patterns — that raise knotty questions about data security and privacy.