Gaetz Will Not Be Trump’s Attorney General

Good Evening 🇺🇸,

What happened today,

• Matt Gaetz withdraws himself from being Trump's Attorney General pick, says his confirmation was becoming a "distraction to the critical work" of the Trump transition

• Trump has now nominated Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General, she was previously Florida’s Attorney General

• Gary Gensler to resign as SEC chair on January 20th

• Weekly U.S. jobless claims fall to a 7 month low with 213k claims made, down from 219k the previous week and below expectations

• Sales of existing U.S. homes rose in October, up 3.4% from September

• DOW up 1.06% /S&P up .53%

• The Department of Justice said Thursday a high-ranking Mexican cartel leader who faked his own death has been charged with international drug trafficking and money laundering after his arrest in California, read more below

  https://apnews.com/article/mexican-cartel-arrest-el-mencho-justice-department-6bd822c5d37c18aeebbcf067f26e5a60

• Russia launched a new intermediate-range ballistic missile toward Dnipro in Ukraine, an attack that officials in Kyiv initially said was an intercontinental ballistic missile

• The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, the ICC also issued a warrant for the arrest of Hamas military leader, Muhammad Deif, for crimes against humanity

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