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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent challenged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a Situation Room meeting last week over the Commerce Department's reluctance to designate Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer, as a possible national security threat, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to CNN....

White House counsel Will Scharf issued a letter to Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, warning that planned Democratic investigations into the Trump administration could amount to what the letter characterized as potential criminality. The warning targets oversight activities that...

James Comey, who served as FBI director from 2013 to 2017 before being fired by Donald Trump, characterized Trump's current second term as significantly worse than his first. According to Comey's interview with ABC News' Four Corners reporter Mark Willacy, conducted ahead of the U.S....

According to Democracy Now!, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will not support Chuck Schumer for another term as Democratic Senate leader, calling for the party to move in "a new and bold direction." Democracy Now! also reports that Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin has...

According to WION, Nvidia, the U.S. artificial intelligence chip giant, faces investor uncertainty amid reports of internal governance concerns and questions surrounding CEO Jensen Huang's leadership. WION reports that any major disruption at the company could send shockwaves through global markets, particularly affecting investors and...

Severe weather struck the Northeast on November 12, with tornado warnings accompanied by video showing winds hurtling debris, shattering car windows, and peeling siding from homes. In Washington, D.C., an emergency room doctor killed his condo building manager before opening fire on pedestrians from his...

Microsoft experienced a global outage affecting Teams, Outlook, and Copilot on Thursday, with Downdetector reporting issues in more than 70 countries. The company stated that repair attempts are not progressing as expected and ruled out a cyber-security breach as the cause.

A global Microsoft outage affected Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 services, with recovery taking longer than expected due to reported traffic management imbalances. Matthew Hardman, CTO for Asia-Pacific at Hitachi Vantara, explained the technical nature of the disruption and emphasized that businesses must take ownership...

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood told Yahoo Finance that Jensen Huang's departure from Nvidia is unexpected but will not derail the company's AI dominance, arguing that competitive pressure—not individual leadership—determines GPU market share. Wood said a deep bench of engineers sits behind what she called...

U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ireland, following their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The discussions focused on securing European involvement in future negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine, with Putin reportedly...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Democratic leadership over missed votes that have allowed Republican legislative priorities to advance, including a Tuesday vote where 11 Democrats were absent as Republicans blocked Pete Hegseth's impeachment. According to Drop Site News, Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark...

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO following reports of marital infidelity involving a woman whom U.S. authorities reportedly suspect of ties to Chinese intelligence, Bloomberg reports. The sudden departure leaves the AI giant with an interim CEO and has created uncertainty in the broader artificial...

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala participated in a one-on-one interview with TRT World at COP31, discussing the intersection of climate policy, global trade systems, and the needs of developing nations. According to TRT World's reporting, the conversation addressed ongoing tensions between climate commitments and...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio participated in G7 discussions on the Ukraine conflict and next steps regarding Iran policy, according to The Wall Street Journal. The meeting marked Rubio's first international trip in his current role, following midterm elections that the WSJ reports will shift...

Microsoft experienced a widespread service outage affecting email, video conferencing, and other key software products across at least 74 countries on Thursday, according to TRT World. In an update on Thursday, Microsoft said restoration efforts were proceeding slower than expected. TRT World reports the disruption...

A ProPublica investigation documents that transnational gangs steal hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), exploiting the government's failure to upgrade benefit-card technology. The report found that while Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials promoted claims...

Al Jazeera English reports that Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's most prominent independent newspapers, has been closed by Russian authorities. According to the report, the closure followed a pattern of intimidation, violence, and assassinations targeting the outlet's staff.

During oral arguments in Nielsen v. Watanabe on Monday, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas pressed petitioner attorney Lucas M. Walker on whether his first and second arguments were substantively identical.

The House of Representatives voted 211-204 to refer an impeachment resolution against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, which Tangle News reports is not expected to take any action on the measure. Republican leadership had expressed concern about maintaining party unity due...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth narrowly avoided impeachment on Tuesday, according to The Intercept. Congress member-elect Richard Ojeda (D-N.C.) told The Intercept he plans to bring both impeachment and criminal charges against Hegseth when Democrats take control of the House and Senate in January. Ojeda...