Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a top Trump administration intelligence official and ally of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, is stepping down this week from two key administration posts.

The departure of Kennedy, a daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the latest in the senior echelons of national security agencies. Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned in March, breaking with President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.

Five people familiar with the matter confirmed Kennedy’s plans. One of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Kennedy’s departure hasn’t been formally announced, said it involved, at least in part, her disagreement with Trump’s military involvement in Iran.

In a May 8 email reviewed by ICIJ media partner The Washington Post, Kennedy told colleagues she was leaving to return to the private sector. “Being a mom is God’s greatest gift, and after two years on the campaign trail and a year serving in this extraordinary Administration, I have to make sure my family has all it needs,” she wrote.

Kennedy made no mention of Iran in the email, which praised Trump. She indicated that this Friday would be her last day on the job.

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Bitcoin Depot, formerly the world’s largest operator of cryptocurrency ATMs, filed for bankruptcy Sunday, in the latest blow to an industry that has been plagued by allegations of facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud annually.

The company has taken its network — comprising some 9,700 kiosks — offline, CEO Alex Holmes said in a statement on its website, and will cease operations.

Holmes cited “increasingly stringent compliance obligations, including new transaction limits, and in some jurisdictions, outright restrictions or bans” on crypto ATMs that have made the company’s business infeasible.

Local and state governments across the United States have tightened restrictions on the machines, which allow cash to be exchanged for cryptocurrency at an automated kiosk similar to a bank ATM. Authorities have opened investigations into crypto ATM operators in response to concerns that the machines had become an easy way for scammers to take advantage of unsuspecting victims.

In 2025, consumers reported to the FBI $389 million of losses to scams involving the machines, which can be used to quickly move victims’ funds overseas and beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.

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