Monday, February 24

🚨NATION

📌 Trump names right-wing podcaster and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at FBI (POLITICO)

📌 FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier (AP)

📌 Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers (CNN)

📌 Idaho woman forcibly dragged from local Republican town hall by private security (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result (AP)

📌 Pope Francis resting on day 10 in hospital for lung infection that led to early stages of kidney insufficiency (FOX)

📌 France faces its largest child abuse trial, weeks after country was rocked by Pelicot case (CNN)

📌 Israel halts release of Palestinian prisoners over ‘humiliating’ hostage handovers (TIME OF ISRAEL) Israel sends tanks to the West Bank for the first time in 20 years (CNN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Apple, facing tariffs on Chinese imports, says it will invest $500 billion in US facilities (CNN)

📌 Joy Reid leaving MSNBC after her show is canceled (AP)

📌 Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of 'NBC Nightly News' after a decade (NBC)

📌 Home buyers are finally getting the upper hand again (WSJ)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, dead at 88 (CNN)

📌 Two-week-old report regarding Eagles’ supposed plan to skip White House visits catches fire (NBC)

📌 Legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan announces final North American tour, kicking off in June (AP)