🗞️Four employees fired from FEMA

February 11th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Four employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been fired today over payments made to hotels in NYC to house illegal migrants

• Former Trump aide, Steve Bannon, pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence with no jail time, to defrauding New Yorkers who donated to "We Build the Wall," an online fundraiser for the southern border wall

• The FBI has uncovered 2,400 new records which contained about 14,000 pages of additional information about the JFK assassination, this shows the FBI is taking Trump’s executive order seriously about releasing the rest of the files regarding the assassination, all documents are expected to be released March 9th

• President Trump has signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to

  "coordinate and consult" with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to cut jobs and limit hiring

• The Super Bowl on Sunday was the most-watched TV event in U.S. history, the game saw a 2% increase in viewership over last year's game, which was also the previous record holder

• A small business plane owned by Motely Crue singer, Vince Neil, crashed into a parked plane as it arrived at Scottsdale airport in Arizona, 1 person has died and 3 others were injured

• Apple has partnered with Chinese company, Alibaba, to develop AI features for iPhone users in China

• UnitedHealth has hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company, per Fortune

• DOW up .28%/ S&P up .03%

• Trump is sending his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, to Ukraine to meet with Zelenskyy about the war. Zelenskyy said today that he is open to a “land exchange” with Russia in order to end the war 

• Vice President, JD Vance, spoke at the Paris AI Summit today, he spoke about America leading the way with AI, warning of overregulation, AI be free from ideological bias, and more …watch his full speech here 

• Israel PM, Netanyahu, has said that if the next round of hostages is not released by Hamas on Saturday then the ceasefire is over and fighting will resume

Bonus: A look at where the data centers are located around the world

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