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March 5th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• President Trump has removed Kristi Noem from her role as Secretary of Homeland Security and has nominated Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as her replacement

• Global flight cancellations to the Middle East have exceeded 23,000 due to widespread airspace closures in countries like Iran, Israel, Qatar, UAE, Iraq, and others following U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran…airline disruption costs are approaching $1 billion

• President Trump told Axios in an interview that he needs to be personally involved in choosing Iran's next leader

• Netflix has acquired InterPositive, an AI filmmaking technology start-up founded in 2022 by Ben Affleck that builds AI tools to help filmmakers with post-production tasks like color grading, relighting, and reframing

• OpenAI launched new specialized financial-services tools targeting banking, risk assessment, and compliance workflows

• Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Health, an AI-enabled platform to automate healthcare administrative tasks like patient verification, appointment scheduling, medical history summaries, and clinical documentation

• According to GasBuddy, U.S. average diesel prices reached $4.12/gal today, which is the highest level since December 8th, 2023…read more here

• S&P down .56% / Nasdaq down .26% / DOW down 1.61%

• Venezuela's state mining firm Minerven signed a deal, that was facilitated by the Trump administration, to sell up to 1,000 kilograms of gold bars (valued at $166 million) to Trafigura, which will refine and ship them to U.S. markets

• President Trump called for Israeli President Herzog to immediately pardon PM Netanyahu from his corruption trials today, calling Herzog a "disgrace" for delays and insisting Netanyahu should be able to focus solely on the Iran war

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