The ceremony in the US Capitol underscored the president’s deepening ties to titans of industry and the shifting stances of those who previously scorned him.

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a plane crash last year that killed two crew members en route to a private island in the South Pacific.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin secretly attended a technology conference in Berlin last week. The search engine billionaire visited the Tech Open Air conference — held at FunkHaus Berlin ...