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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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Democrats Open Probe Into Trump's Deal to Export Nvidia Chips to China — The president allegedly approved the chip exports after Nvidia contributed $26 million toward his personal priorities, including the White House ballroom project. — Copy — Congressional Democrats launched …
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New York Times:
Lutnick Took a Softer Line on Nvidia as Calls for Tougher Controls Grew … Howard Lutnick has frequently clashed with top officials over how to regulate sales of advanced technology to Asia, particularly Nvidia's chip sales in the region.Doug Mills/The New York Times
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Politico:
Lutnick's longtime friendship with Trump may not save him
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Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Howard Lutnick agrees to testify as bipartisan pressure grows over Nvidia scandal
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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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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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Kristina Fiore / MedPage Today:
Doctor Behind Mass Shooting in D.C., Police Say — Emergency physician accused of shooting multiple people — one fatally — before killing himself — Emergency physician Matt Lambert, MD, was named by NBC News as the gunman in Thursday's mass shooting in Washington, D.C., citing law enforcement officials.
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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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Mychael Schnell / MS NOW:
Van Hollen launches challenge to Schumer for Senate majority leader — Sen. Chris Van Hollen is launching a bid for Senate majority leader, the Maryland Democrat announced Thursday evening on MS NOW's “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.” — “I am planning to run for the Senate majority leader …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Van Hollen Says He Will Challenge Schumer for Senate Majority Leader — Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has emerged as a favorite of Democrats seeking an alternative to Senator Chuck Schumer, who says he has the votes to win. — Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced on Thursday …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer for majority leader
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Reuters:
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:
Trump Had Urged Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Fight for His Job — The president called the Nvidia chief on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of supporting him even as the spy scandal was intensifying. — President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, before the Nvidia chief stepped down amid …
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Mack Liederman / New York Times:
Huang and Lutnick Summoned to Testify Before Congress — Senator Tim Scott said he had requested that the Nvidia co-founder and the commerce secretary appear before the Senate Banking Committee. — Jensen Huang, who resigned as Nvidia's chief executive, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick …
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New York Times:
Republican Setbacks Swell in the South With Stinging Loss in Mississippi — The Democrat Scott Colom's stunning Senate upset punctuated a dismal midterm showing for the G.O.P. in a region they had dominated for years. — Republicans were routed in Georgia and stunned in South Carolina.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cindy Holscher wins Kansas governor's mansion, keeping it in Democrats' hands
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Ford McCracken / The Hill:
Trump on Colom's Mississippi Senate win: ‘I give him a lot of credit’
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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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Mack Liederman / New York Times:
Soldier Shouts at Hegseth's Group to Show ‘Respect’ at Tomb of the Unknowns
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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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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 …
Benton Graham / Grist:
The affordability election delivered billions for public transit … In an election dominated by concerns about affordability, voters across the country overwhelmingly agreed to raise taxes to preserve or expand public transit. — Out of 27 ballot measures supporting transit …
Natalie Alms / The Washington Sun:
DOJ Tells Agencies to Move to English-Only — The guidance reasserts Trump's order with an expanded list of communications that “should” be in English. — Copy — The Trump administration is reasserting its push to strip the federal government of languages other than English.
Politico:
White House staffers can no longer meet with lobbyists without prior approval, new memo says — Stephen Miller is about to upend the way lobbyists work with the White House. — According to a memo from the chief of staff office first obtained by POLITICO, White House staff must receive prior approval …
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Blanche dials back threats to investigate lawmakers . — The attorney general said there are no ongoing criminal investigations into House or Senate members' rhetoric — Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday attempted to back away from suggestions from President Donald Trump …
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A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
North Korean hackers steal more than $400 million using video images, FBI says — North Korean state-backed hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months using surreptitiously recorded images of people which are then used to target their contacts, the FBI said Thursday.
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democrats can't wait until after Trump to produce results, James Talarico says — The senator-elect told a crowd at a Democratic conference that Congress should work with Trump and make his final two years in office productive. — DENVER — Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico told a gathering …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate Dems can look forward to unlikely MAGA allies … They could find those votes from a bloc of GOP senators with a shared appetite for taking on corporate power. — Enter Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).
Politico:
Democrats eye spring government funding punt — Top congressional Democrats are looking to avoid a spending confrontation with President Donald Trump and Republicans in the early months of their new majorities. Two people granted anonymity to describe private strategy said the Democrats …
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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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