🗞️FBI alerts California police departments

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March 11th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• The FBI has issued alerts to California police departments warning of potential Iranian retaliatory attacks on the U.S. West Coast, amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran

• A bipartisan group of senators have requested the Government Accountability Office investigate the DOJ's handling and release of Jeffrey Epstein investigation documents, citing inadequate victim privacy protections and excessive redactions shielding powerful figures

• A foreign hacker infiltrated the FBI's New York field office server in February 2023, compromising files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation after an agent inadvertently left it exposed, according to recently released Justice Department documents

• The International Energy Agency (IEA) announced a coordinated release of 400 million barrels from member nations' strategic oil reserves to counter severe oil supply disruptions from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran

• Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris have advanced to an April 7th runoff in the special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th District

• Congressman, Kevin Hern (R-OK) announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat in Oklahoma, aiming to succeed Senator Markwayne Mullin, who was nominated last week by President Trump to head the Department of Homeland Security

• McDonald's is preparing to launch new value meals priced at $3 or less starting soon, targeting budget-conscious customers with items like cheeseburgers, McChickens, small fries, and hash browns

• Meta announced four new in-house chips optimized for AI inference, training, and data processing to power its expanding data centers and reduce reliance on Nvidia chips

• Binance filed a defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a February article alleging the exchange enabled $1 billion in transfers to Iran-sanctioned entities and fired compliance staff who flagged it

• Consumers aged 55 and older now account for 45.3% of all U.S. consumer spending, marking the largest share in nearly three decades…in contrast, Americans aged 54 and younger represent just 54.7% of spending, a sharp decline from around 72% in 2000…read more here

• February CPI inflation came in at 2.4% year over year, which was in-line with expectations…Core CPI inflation came in at 2.5% year over year, which was also in-line with expectations

• S&P down .08% / Nasdaq up .08% / DOW down .61%

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