🗞️Columbia activist detained

March 10th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel activist who took part in leading protests at Columbia University…the Trump administration has said that Khalil will have his green card revoked and he will be deported but a federal judge has already temporarily blocked the deportation…more will be played out in court

• Secretary of State Rubio said that 83% of programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development have been canceled and intends to fold the remaining programs under the State Department

• The Secret Service shot a man near the White House after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement… the suspect is 27-year-old Andrew Dawson, of Indiana, he was taken to the hospital and his condition is unknown

• Elon Musk said today's X outages are the result of a massive cyberattack

• Ontario, Canada is adding a 25% surcharge for electricity exports to 1.5 million Americans in response to President Trump’s trade war…Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York, and Michigan

• Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has sent an apology letter to President Trump

• Rocket companies will be acquiring Redfin, the real estate listings platform, for $1.75 billion in an all-stock transaction

• Elon Musk of Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Sergey Brin of Google, and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta have lost a total of $210 billion since Trump's inauguration, per Bloomberg

• DOW down 2.08% / S&P down 2.7%- this was the S&P’s worst day since 2022

• Former Central Bank Governor of Canada, Mark Carney, will become Canada’s next Prime Minister after winning the Liberal leadership election on Sunday night, he will replace Justin Trudeau and won about 86% of the vote

• A cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea off the eastern coast of England, causing a huge fire, multiple explosions, and prompting an emergency response from the British coastguard

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