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Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say — Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned. — The revelation follows two other extramarital affairs that led to his resignation Thursday.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Jensen Huang Resigns From Nvidia After Affairs — Mr. Huang, the founder of the chip-making colossus, had been entangled with a woman identified by U.S. intelligence as a Chinese spy. His departure immediately reverberated through the tech industry. — Here's the latest.
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Nvidia Newsroom:
NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition — Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Appointed Interim CEO — Harvey C. Jones Appointed First-Ever Chair of the Board — NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump pitches Apple's Tim Cook as new Nvidia CEO — President Trump is backing Apple executive chairman Tim Cook to replace tech giant Jensen Huang after Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, though it's unclear whether he meant it as a joke.
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Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
A Mystery Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband.
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Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation Into Suspected Spy's Company
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New York Post:
DC gym shooter ID'd as Dr. Matt Lambert — who went berserk at HOA over black mold in his $1.1M apartment — The gunman in the Washington, DC, gym shooting is a wealthy doctor who had been locked in a battle over black mold in his $1.1 million penthouse — and cited a report about it as his chilling “manifesto.”
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The Washington Sun:
D.C. Police Respond to an Active Shooter at Logan Circle VIDA Fitness Gym — Police confirmed there is an active shooter at VIDA Fitness in the Logan Circle area. — Copy — There is an active shooter at the VIDA Fitness gym in the Logan Circle area, a D.C. police spokesperson told The Washington Sun Thursday morning.
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Michael Brice-Saddler / The Washington Sun:
What the Logan Circle Shooter Told Me — In a series of interviews late last year, Matt Lambert obsessed about his condo's problems — and the man he killed. — Copy — Matt Lambert, a former emergency room physician and health care technology executive, shot five people and then himself …
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Ben T.N. Mause / The Washington Sun:
Trump Wants to ‘Get Cuba Done’ Before Leaving the White House
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Haley Britzky / CNN:
Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded him and aides at Arlington Cemetery — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal on Thursday. — “We love soldiers.
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Hegseth awards medal to soldier who admonished him, his team at Tomb of the Unknowns
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Mack Liederman / New York Times:
Soldier Shouts at Hegseth's Group to Show ‘Respect’ at Tomb of the Unknowns
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Hamed Ahmadi / The Washington Sun:
Hegseth Honors the Soldier Who Scolded His Entourage at Arlington National Cemetery
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Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Hegseth awards soldier who scolded him and his aides at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Pulling Vance Off Iran Talks to Focus on Fraud Campaign — The announcement on social media deepened questions about what the president's plan is to end the war. “We don't need a deal with Iran,” he wrote. — President Trump said on Thursday that he had pulled Vice President JD Vance …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Pence delivers scathing rebuke of Vance's Iran war assessment, blames Trump policies for GOP losses
New York Times:
Why 2026 Midterm Polls Underestimated Democratic Support — Democratic gains were expected, but surveys almost uniformly underestimated how well the left would do. Many pollsters seem to have made similar mistakes. — In one important sense, polls got the story of this year's election right …
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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
What Does 2026 Mean for the Map in 2028? — Mississippi and other states have created new uncertainty about what, exactly, a red state is. — America's political map looked pretty calcified — until last week. — Democrats' surprising midterm wins across red states …
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Senate committee schedules nomination hearing for top Trump watchdog as Democrats cry ‘sham’
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cindy Holscher wins Kansas governor's mansion, keeping it in Democrats' hands — Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher was projected to win the Kansas governor's race, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), keeping the office in Democratic hands and denying Republicans one of their best pickup opportunities this year.
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Associated Press:
Police say 4 people have been shot in the trendy Logan Circle neighborhood of the nation's capital — Four people were shot in a trendy Washington, D.C., neighborhood within walking distance of the White House early Thursday, said police, who were responding to multiple locations.
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Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Senators probing RFK Jr.'s testimony on Samoa trip after AP and Guardian showed documents refute it — Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press …
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Michelle R Smith / The Guardian:
Senator opens investigation into evidence RFK Jr ‘unlawfully lied’ to Congress
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Wall Street Journal:
Lutnick Fights for His Job as Trump Aides Blame Him for Nvidia Fallout — The commerce secretary is under pressure due to his inaction on chip-export controls and tensions with other senior officials — WASHINGTON—As the fallout from Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese …
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Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Kalshi ends Donald Trump Jr.'s advisory contract over 1789 Capital's Polymarket investment … Kalshi has terminated its advisory contract with Donald Trump Jr. after learning that his venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, had made a significant investment in rival prediction market Polymarket, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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Evan Halper / New York Times:
Democrats Put Targets on Notice as Trump Oversight Takes Shape — Letters that tell companies and officials not to destroy documents signal the direction of potential investigations next year. — Congressional Democrats have alerted more than 60 companies, individuals and agencies …
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New York Times:
The First Thing Democrats Should Do to Show They're Serious on Affordability — In his election night victory speech, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York said he and his fellow Democrats would fight to “make this country affordable for every single American.”
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Aliya Rahman Is Suing ICE For Abuse. DHS Deleted Its Tweets About Her. — A department spokesperson wouldn't say when ― or why ― it erased its posts defending ICE agents' violent arrest of the Minneapolis resident. — WASHINGTON ― A day after Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman sued …
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Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
Trump Envoys Meet Putin as Starshield Limits Let Russian Drones Through — Volodymyr Zelenskyy says renewed speed caps prevent Ukrainian interceptor drones from catching jet-powered Shaheds, leaving civilians exposed as Washington presses its diplomacy with Moscow. — Co-Founder of MeidasTouch
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ProPublica:
More Than Numbers: Portraits of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents — The Department of Homeland Security says it's not detaining Americans. — In written statements, it has said that “allegations that ICE is arresting and deporting U.S. citizens is FALSE.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster — In her note to TPM over the weekend, Theda Skocpol made a long list of good observations and suggestions about Democrats' path forward. One of them was deceptively simple: “Stop passing huge kitchen sink bills …
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
The Freedom Caucus comes to grips with a new reality: They won the war — The House Freedom Caucus is staring down an unfamiliar new reality in 2027: questionable relevance. — That's partly because the ultra-conservative group achieved an indubitable triumph this week …
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Politico:
Moran ‘pursuing’ challenge to Murkowski for powerful appropriations perch — Two Republicans are set to face off for the top GOP spot on the Senate Appropriations Committee in the coming weeks, with Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran saying he'll challenge Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for the seat.
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MS NOW:
Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, is considering a run for president — The former New Orleans mayor tells MS NOW that he is “giving ... some thought” to a 2028 campaign. — DENVER — Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, is weighing a run for president in 2028.
Department of Homeland Security:
ICE Breaks Records in Fiscal Year 2026, With Most Arrests and Deportations in Agency's History — Fiscal Year 2026 alone dwarfed deportation and arrest numbers from the entirety of the Biden Administration — In FY26, ICE carried out 483,200 deportations, which broke the record …
New York Times:
In Mississippi, Scott Colom Supporters Celebrate Historic Senate Win — At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept and over Scott Colom's victory. He will be Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era. — On the lawn of Tougaloo College …
Joe Miller / Financial Times:
Maga architects blame Big Tech and AI data centres for midterms rout — Head of Heritage Foundation admits Republicans' embrace of Silicon Valley and the effect of Donald Trump's Iran war cost them votes — The architects of Donald Trump's Maga agenda are blaming AI anxieties …
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