🗞️Resignation at the FBI

March 3rd, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• The head of the FBI in New York, James Dennehy, has forcibly resigned… this comes after he urged employees to investigate Trump’s firings of senior bureau leaders and after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the FBI's New York office of withholding information about the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the chip manufacturing company, has announced a $100B investment in the U.S. to build new chip manufacturing plants… this brings the company’s total investment in the U.S. to $165 billion

• Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said he is prepared to sign a mineral rights deal with the U.S. and believes the relationship with the U.S. government can be salvaged

• Defense Secretary Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to suspend offensive cyber and information operations against Russia

• The Securities and Exchange Commission is offering employees a $50,000 incentive to resign or retire by April 4th, per Bloomberg

• Tom Corry, a spokesperson at the Health and Human Services Department, has announced he has resigned after reportedly clashing with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his close aides

• The U.S. has paused all current military aid to Ukraine, per Bloomberg

• President Trump announced the creation of a “strategic crypto reserve” that will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana’s SOL token and Cardano’s ADA and the first ever White House Crypto Summit will be held this Friday

• Former NY governor, Andrew Cuomo, has officially announced he is running for mayor of NYC

• Domino’s Pizza has officially launched its own stuffed crust pizza in an effort to innovate, expand product offerings, and win over customers looking for that option

• DOW down 1.48% / S&P down 1.76%

• British PM Starmer, European leaders from France, Italy, Germany, and other nations, as well as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Canadian PM Trudeau, spent the weekend in London crafting a European-led plan to bring peace to Ukraine…read more about it here

• Pope Francis experienced “two episodes of acute respiratory failure,” the Vatican said…he is back on a ventilator but is responsive and cooperative

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