🗞️Epstein files phase 1

February 27th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Binders saying “The Epstein Files Phase: 1” were given out today with very little information inside, it was about 100 pages of Epstein’s address book, including a list of contacts without further context. Later AG Pam Bondi wrote a letter to FBI Director Patel claiming that federal investigators in NY are withholding additional Epstein documents and information from her… she stated by “8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office”… for more info on this entire situation click the article above

• Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts paused a federal judge’s order that would have required the Trump administration to pay almost $2 billion to its foreign aid contractors by midnight

• Trump confirms tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China will go into effect March 4th- Canada and Mexico will be at 25% and China will now sit at 20%

• The USDA will spend $1 billion to combat the bird flu and assist farmers, one issue is the USDA’s Dairy Forage Research Center lost more than a quarter of its staff under the initial federal firings, the USDA has since asked two employees who were working on bird flu and several scientists to come back

• Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) is proposing legislation to feature President Trump on a $250 bill, yet current laws do not allow a living person to appear on U.S. currency

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving to drop a lawsuit against Capital One, that was brought during the Biden administration just last month, that accused the bank of cheating customers out of a collective $2 billion…Capital One has denied the allegations

• Instagram is considering launching a stand-alone app for Reels in order to take advantage of TikTok’s unknown future

• Tesla is planning to develop free self-driving taxi service in California, per The Washington Post

• U.S. weekly jobless claims for the week to ending Feb. 22nd totaled to 242k which was up 22k from the previous week and way above the expectations of 225k

• DOW down .45% / S&P down 1.59%

• Britain’s PM, Starmer, visited Trump at the White House today where they discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and a ceasefire, trade, and Starmer gave Trump a letter from King Charles inviting him to the U.K. for a state visit in which Trump accepted on the spot

• Israel has received the final four bodies of the hostages from Hamas and have released Palestinian prisoners in return, the first phase of the ceasefire deal is now complete and negotiations for the second phase will begin

Plus: A cool look at which countries have the most skyscrapers

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