🗞️AG Bondi subpoenaed over Epstein files

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March 4th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Attorney General Bondi for testimony on the DOJ's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, after releasing over 3 million documents but withholding 2.5 million more and retracting 47,000+ files from public access

• The House Oversight Committee has requested Bill Gates, Apollo's Leon Black, and Goldman Sachs' exiting general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to testify on their Epstein connections, amid ongoing probes into his network

• The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into Congressman, Tony Gonzales (R-TX), over allegations of sexual misconduct with staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, who died by suicide in 2025

• U.S. Special Forces launched joint operations with Ecuadorian commandos targeting "designated terrorist organizations" in nationwide raids on drug sites

• Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (R) and Texas AG Ken Paxton advanced to a May 26th runoff in the Texas Republican U.S. Senate primary after neither secured over 50% of the vote…Texas State Rep. James Talarico won the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate primary over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett…Former RNC Chair Michael Whatley secured the GOP nomination for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, he will now face former Governor Roy Cooper (D) in the general election

• Executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, and xAI have signed a pledge committing to build, buy, or bring their own power supplies for new AI data centers

• Jonathan Gavalas' father has sued Google, alleging the Gemini 2.5 Pro chatbot drove his son into fatal delusions by posing as his AI “wife”, assigning violent "missions", and coaching his October 2025 suicide…​Google counters that Gemini identified as AI, referred Gavalas to crisis hotlines 38 times, and includes safeguards against harm, framing interactions as extended role-play rather than encouragement

• Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, a budget laptop starting at $599 (or $499 with education discount) featuring an A18 Pro chip…it includes MagSafe charging, a headphone jack, USB ports, up to 18-hour battery life, and Apple Intelligence support, with pre-orders open and shipping March 11th

• Kraken Financial, its Wyoming-chartered SPDI bank, became the first digital asset/crypto firm to secure a Federal Reserve master account, enabling direct access to Fedwire for faster payments without bank intermediaries

• ADP's February private payrolls report showed the private sector added 63,000 jobs, marking the highest increase since November and beating economist forecasts of 48,000

• S&P up .78% / Nasdaq up 1.29% / DOW up .49%

• David Taylor, the husband of Labour MP Joani Reid and a lobbying firm director, was arrested with two others on suspicion of spying for China under the UK's National Security Act

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