Justice Department Drops Investigation Into Jerome Powell
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:34.4 | Here's your midday brief for Friday, April 24th. I'm Pierre Biennamee for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | The Justice Department is ending its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. |
| 0:45.8 | U.S. Attorney Janine Piro announced today that her office is closing the inquiry into Powell's |
| 0:50.3 | testimony to Congress about cost overruns on the renovation of two historic Fed buildings. The move clears the way for Kevin Warsh to be confirmed as Powell's testimony to Congress about cost overruns on the renovation of two historic Fed buildings. |
| 0:55.3 | The move clears the way for Kevin Warsh to be confirmed as Powell's successor. |
| 0:59.2 | Senator Tom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, was a crucial vote, and he had said he |
| 1:03.9 | wouldn't advance any Fed nominee while the probe remained open. |
| 1:08.0 | Deepseek, the Chinese AI company, has released its new V4 artificial intelligence model. |
| 1:14.0 | Deepseek says it's the most powerful open source large language model now available. |
| 1:18.4 | Deepseek said V4 has matched some top-tier U.S. products, but its performance in certain areas |
| 1:23.5 | still lags behind leading closed source models from Anthropic and Google. |
| 1:28.1 | Investors who have struggled to put evaluation on DeepSeek said they're evaluating the performance |
| 1:32.2 | of V4 to help determine how much the company is worth. |
| 1:35.6 | And the Nuclear Energy Company, X Energy, is going public today at evaluation above $9 billion. |
| 1:42.5 | High-profile backers, like Citadel founder Ken Griffin, stand |
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