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Did Abdul El-Sayed call Michigan the 'capital of Arab America'? Michigan has a rich Arab American history, with reportedly the highest-concentrated Arab population in the country. Claim: On Nov. 6, Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, D-Mich., said "Michigan is the capital of Arab America." Rating: Correct Attribution On Nov. 3, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. In the days that followed, a claim circulated that El-Sayed had said that "Michigan is the capital of Arab America," sparking vitriol from opponents. The alleged quote played into a trope — commonly used against Muslims, immigrants and other communities — that institutions such as the U.S. government are being "infiltrated" by foreigners. For example, the caption of one Facebook post sharing a purported clip of El-Sayed saying the quote began: "WE'VE BEEN INVADED" (archived). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/el-sayed-michigan-arab-america-quote/? - Today
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The New York Times
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November 10, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. It’s good to be back. Have you been following the Nvidia news? It sounds like a Ken Follett novel. Jensen Huang I-Hwa Cheng/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Chips down Imagine this for a moment: An alleged Chinese spy seduces the leader of the world’s second-biggest company in order to help her country beat the U.S. in a contest to master the future’s most important technology. The president of the United States is aware of the relationship. I’d read that thriller on a long-haul flight, absolutely. Except U.S. intelligence officials say it’s not a fiction. Over the weekend, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the company that dominates the market for A.I. computer chips, admitted that he had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman, Alice Huang, who U.S. spy agencies said was a cutout for Beijing. (They’re not related. This isn’t a George R.R. Martin novel.) The company’s board is investigating the affair. It said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised,” and that its chief executive would remain chief executive during the review. Yesterday, Beijing called the allegations “nothing but a smear against China.” The stakes There’s more to all this than romantic scandal and corporate espionage. The United States and China are in a race to control the future of artificial intelligence. Nvidia makes the chips that have for now put the United States ahead. To keep it that way, Washington bars Nvidia from selling chips to China. A screengrab from CTI video footage shows a woman identified by Reuters as Alice Huang. CTI/Reuters Enter Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen who is an executive at a Singapore-based data-center company called Megaspeed. It’s unclear when she first met Huang from Nvidia, but in 2024 they were photographed together at a bar in Taipei as Megaspeed prepared to spend $2 billion on Nvidia chips. Investigators from the U.S. Commerce Department were interested in that: Was Megaspeed helping China sidestep American export restrictions? Whom did she really work for? (Alice Huang has not responded to multiple attempts to reach her for comment in recent days.) U.S. officials concluded she was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information on the American C.E.O. and potentially to influence his company to funnel chips to China. That’s not how America wins the global competition for dominance of A.I. The markets sure didn’t like it. Huang doesn’t sit on top of a pyramid at Nvidia. He has 60 executives reporting directly to him. Should the board decide to punish him, there’s no obvious candidate to take his place. That has consequences. Until recently, Nvidia was the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. On Monday, its stock fell more than 4 percent, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. There could be political fallout as well. Huang is a close ally of President Trump. He is also friendly with the Chinese, whom he told Bloomberg are “not our enemies.” Last year, he persuaded the president to roll back some of the ban on chip sales to China, after which Nvidia sold its second-most valuable chip there. (The U.S. government took a 25 percent cut of the sales.) And Nvidia has given at least $20 million to Trump’s ballroom fund. What’s next? Nvidia’s board will investigate, though as my colleagues report, Huang’s grip on the company is so firm that it will be a challenge to discipline him. The board itself is thick with early investors and business partners. Those are long, financially fruitful relationships. The Republican leaders of three House committees have asked Huang to brief them in private this month. The Justice Department took over a federal investigation into Megaspeed after Commerce Department investigators working on the case received an email from Nvidia’s general counsel seeking information about the inquiry and saying that a top official at the department had given the company permission to reach out. Trump, at the moment, appears sanguine. He told reporters yesterday that he had asked Huang if he knew the woman he was seeing was a spy. “He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy,’ and I really believe him.” More on A.I. Voter measures to rein in data center construction threaten to slow down the A.I. boom. Some economists think that could be helpful. The Senate took an initial vote in favor of a sweeping, contentious plan to streamline permitting for power plants, gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure to meet soaring electricity demand, especially for A.I. data centers. FREE TO READ Nicholas J.R. White for The New York Times Unfinished quest: Henry Worsley died trying to cross Antarctica. Now his son is making his own attempt on the South Pole. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about Rob Sands, Iowa’s governor-elect, a former Prada model. Metropolitan Diary: Taking the bartender by surprise. ICE pushback: Watch the video below to learn how immigration raids helped turn Kansas blue. The New York Times THE LATEST NEWS Politics Thomas Massie Kenny Holston/The New York Times A Republican congressman reintroduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, accusing him of endangering troops and waging war without congressional approval. Lawmakers could vote on the articles as soon as this week. The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to keep building a border wall in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas, including within a national park. A federal judge ordered the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to comply with a federal subpoena to help ICE identify immigrants with a serious criminal history. Midterm Elections California voters rejected a proposed tax on billionaires. Trump, who initially said he would accept the midterm election results, renewed his unsubstantiated claims that voting was rigged. Senfronia Thompson, an 87-year-old known as Miss T, is poised to become the first woman, and the first Black lawmaker, to lead the Texas House of Representatives. With so much new blood, the average age of U.S. senators is falling, a little: The data assumes Democratic victories in Alaska and Mississippi. For the top chart, numbers are based on senators’ ages as of January 2027. For the bottom chart, ages are calculated based on the day that a particular Senate convened. The New York Times Around the World A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a domestic worker from Kenya to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage. She has tried for more than a year to return to Kenya with her child. (A Times investigation last year revealed how African women like her end up trapped in Saudi Arabia after becoming pregnant.) Russell Brand, the former comedy star, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison in Britain for rape and sexual assault. The C.I.A. is expanding operations in Mexico, a Times investigation found. Other Big Stories The judge presiding over Lindsay Clancy’s murder case denied a request to dismiss the charges against her, clearing the way for a second trial. Fishermen spotted someone treading water about 20 miles off the coast of California. He had fallen off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, where he worked as a pianist, his rescuers said. Demonstrators came to protest Philadelphia restaurants said to support Israel. Then a flood of counterprotesters arrived to buy food. FLOATERS Turkey is the top importer of plastic waste from Europe. The plastic is supposed to get recycled, but The Times found that much of it ends up in the ocean. Our reporters visited Adana, a recycling capital, and followed the pollution through canals (in one, the level of microplastics rose more than 130-fold) and out to the sea, where it travels for hundreds of miles. These pictures capture the broken waste economy. Samuel Granados/The New York Times OPINIONS JD Vance identified four issues that Republicans must address to win back support. He’s ignoring a key problem, a commentator who supports the party writes: old-fashioned corruption. The 2026 election might represent the moment the “red wall” of Southern states finally fell, E.J. Dionne Jr. argues. Morning readers, don’t miss The Midterms Sale on election coverage and more. What effect will the results have on the country? And on you? Stay informed with our best offer on The Times in full. Subscribe now. TODAY’S NUMBER 110 — That is at least how many immigrants with court-ordered protections have been handed over to foreign governments by the United States, only to then be sent to home countries where they risked torture, sexual abuse or persecution. The number is likely to grow. Read the Times investigation about Mustapha Camara, who ended up back in Gambia. SPORTS N.B.A.: The Golden State Warriors routed the New Orleans Pelicans by 51 points, their eighth consecutive victory. The injured star Jimmy Butler helped coach. College football: The playoff has 24 teams now. Here’s how the expanded version works. Women’s hockey: The world championships are underway but instead of focusing on the games, people are talking about ugly jerseys. RECIPE OF THE DAY Yossy Arefi for The New York Times I was out sick last week — out way sick, is how we used to put it — and didn’t eat food for the better part of a week. This Polish borscht helped bring me back to nutrition, sweet beet-and-beef broth run through with allium pungency and a splash of lemon. It’s not just for the bedridden. Chunk some of the cooked beets in with the strained broth, add sour cream and eat alongside a plate of pan-fried pierogi with applesauce and sauerkraut. Either way, you’ll be soaring like a white eagle. SUSSUDIO! Phil Collins Dana Scruggs for The New York Times Phil Collins, 75, has sold 100 million albums on his own, and 100 million more with Genesis. In advance of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Times caught up with the hitmaker. The conversation’s fascinating, but stay for the details: Among other things, at 13, Collins played the Artful Dodger in the West End production of “Oliver!” Read more. More on culture M. John Harrison’s “The End of Everything,” a novel that imagines aliens occupying Britain, won the Booker Prize. It is the first science-fiction novel to have won this laurel. It beat out five high-profile titles, including Marlon James’s “The Disappearers” and Douglas Stuart’s “John of John.” Meet Henry Onesemo, a Samoan former luau dancer who has become one of New Zealand’s most prominent chefs. At Tala, his Auckland restaurant, Onesemo brings the tastes of his island youth to a broader audience. “My job is to tell the Samoan food story and put it in a place where it is respected,” he told The Times. You can practically smell the delicious smoke. Gary Fisketjon discovered and cultivated an army of literary talents, including Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt and Cormac McCarthy, earning him a reputation as one of the greatest literary editors of his generation. He died at 72. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Cristina Spanò Avoid getting your co-workers sick after you’ve recovered from a nasty illness. (This has been on my mind.) Follow these protocols from our Well desk. Listen to “Talafreako,” Lil Texxan’s off-the-dome rap track, which went viral last week. Jon Caramanica, our pop music critic, talked to the artist. Prepare your kitchen in advance of Thanksgiving. You can do it this weekend, but you may want to order a few essential tools in advance. The pantry coordinators at Wirecutter have nine in mind. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was bathroom. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. And thanks, too, for the good wishes while I was out. See you tomorrow. — Sam Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter misstated who was “only kidding” about offering the White House press secretary job to the U.F.C. chief executive Dana White. Trump said that, not his chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. 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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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The “War Dogs” Story Behind A $1.8 Billion ICE Windfall Court records and insider accounts reveal how companies linked to a developer facing bankruptcy and debt battles secured ICE contracts worth up to $1.8 billion. https://www.levernews.com/the-war-dogs-story-behind-a-1-8-billion-ice-windfall/? -
This Day in History
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY November 10 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. Read More Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT African History 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria Arts & Entertainment 1928 WWI novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is published 1969 “Sesame Street” debuts 1973 Copies of “Slaughterhouse-Five” burned in North Dakota Civil War 1865 Henry Wirz hanged for murder Inventions & Science 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper Native American History 1808 Osage tribe cedes Missouri and Arkansas lands Natural Disasters & Environment 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sinks in Lake Superior Sports 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami U.S. Presidents 2001 George W. Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism -
Private, Public & Charter School's K-12
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School Closures Surge A total of 1,156 US public schools closed during the last academic year, the highest number since the pandemic. The figure, from a new analysis published this week, largely reflects declining birth rates and funding cuts. Student enrollment is falling faster than public schools are closing, with enrollment down by roughly 1.4 million students from 2019 to 2024. Analysts say the decline is primarily due to a multidecade drop in birth rates; the under-18 population fell by roughly 2.1 million children from 2010 to 2025. The federal immigration crackdown and postpandemic expansion of private school vouchers and homeschool options have also contributed. Projections indicate that tumbling enrollment could cost public schools roughly $11.5B in state funding annually by 2030-31, compared with revenue received in 2025-26, potentially spurring further closures. Research shows closures may not deliver the savings school districts expect, since busing, severance, and vacant-building security add costs. Displaced students also often experience long-term declines in reading and math scores. Compare state test scores here. And dive into the history of America's public education system here. -
COP31 Begins The United Nations’ annual climate summit, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, kicked off its 31st gathering yesterday in Antalya, Turkey. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will participate in the event; the US did not send an official federal delegation for the second consecutive year. COP31 commenced days after a European climate monitoring service reported that last month was the warmest October ever recorded. It also marked the third straight month to exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold. Over the next two weeks, delegates will push countries to honor their previous emissions-reduction pledges and work to provide developing nations with funds to adapt to a warming climate. They will also try to resolve deadlocks over how to transition away from fossil fuels. Those efforts come as a recent UN report found the US drove one-third of the rise in global emissions last year, outpacing every other major economy. See an interactive visualization of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide here.
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Congress: The Senate & The House
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Congress Clocks In The 119th Congress resumed yesterday for the first time since last week’s wave of Democratic victories (see latest). Republicans have five scheduled legislative weeks left before losing control of both houses in January. Chief among Republican priorities is to pass a funding bill ahead of a Dec. 11 government shutdown deadline. Garnering support for the Pentagon’s annual policy bill amid an unpopular Iran war is also a priority. It also comes as outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R, KY-4) reintroduced a resolution yesterday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on eight counts, including over his handling of the Iran war; a House vote could come as soon as this week. Massie separately predicts he will amass the 218 signatures necessary to force floor action on the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. Separately, the Senate voted 73-25 yesterday to advance a measure to speed up approval of data center development. Americans voted overwhelmingly last week to restrict data center construction through dozens of ballot initiatives (see the one place that didn't). -
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Voting, Rights, Rules,Challenges, Elections, Election Rules & Election Fraud_3
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California voters reject measure to tax the wealth of billionaires SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have rejected a first-in-the-nation tax on the net worth of billionaires following a contentious ballot fight that generated huge spending by some prominent tech leaders eager to stop their taxes from going up. https://apnews.com/article/california-billionaire-tax-4ae8cbdc057b99579818016f02ac9d9e? -
🍁 Parting shot: Autumn in New York Photo: Natalie Daher/Axios I snapped this photo yesterday while visiting Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Queens, after spending the afternoon at MoMA PS1. 🎨 MoMA PS1 is now free to visit through 2028, thanks to a gift from philanthropist Sonya Yu marking the museum's 50th anniversary. My subway take: Make all museums free!
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Artificial Intelligence
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Your next micro AI experiment Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Your AI chatbot can do a lot more than draft emails or summarize articles. New features can turn ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools into even better personal researchers, problem-solvers and amateur app developers. Why it matters: You don't need to be a tech expert to get more out of AI. Sometimes, you just need a few practical ideas for putting it to work. Inspired by The Washington Post's new guide to AI "power-ups," here are five ways to put your chatbot to work: 🔧 Fix something around the house: Snap a photo of a confusing error message on your dishwasher, thermostat or washing machine. Upload it with the model number, and ask AI to identify possible causes and suggest safe troubleshooting steps. I recently used AI to help authenticate a Herman Miller chair I bought secondhand on Facebook Marketplace, comparing its design details with changes in the chair's production over the years. 🗂️ Turn a pile of documents into a personal assistant: Upload vacation itineraries, travel confirmations and reservations into a ChatGPT Project or Google's NotebookLM. Ask it to build a day-by-day schedule, flag conflicts and answer questions about your trip. My color-coded honeymoon itinerary for Argentina and Chile next month is courtesy of Claude, not my spreadsheet skills. It was right on the suggestion to book a rental car in Bariloche; brushing up on my Spanish is on me. 🔎 Research a big purchase: Use a chatbot's Deep Research feature to compare refrigerators, mattresses or cars. Give it your budget and must-haves, and request a side-by-side breakdown of reliability, long-term costs and independent reviews. You can do the same for local services: AI helped me compare dog walkers and led me to Parkside Pups, which now walks my sweet poodle-beagle a few times a week. 🛠️ Build something just for you: Want a family trivia game, holiday gift tracker or personal website? Describe it in plain English and ask AI to build a working version — no coding experience required. It's called "vibe coding," and if you've checked out a journalist friend's portfolio lately, you may have seen it in action. 📑 Decode the fine print: That confusing clause buried in your 50-page homeowners insurance policy or warranty? Ask AI to explain exclusions, deductibles and coverage limits in plain English — and point you to the exact passages supporting its answers. Between the lines: AI can be confidently wrong. Double-check important advice and research, and run consequential decisions by a human you trust. Security is essential: Remove sensitive personal information before uploading documents, and check your chatbot's privacy settings. Gift link. Have you had an experience with a chatbot lately that saved you time or taught you something? Write us at finishline@axios.com. -
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Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed
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The Joke’s on Him View in browser When President Trump posted on Saturday that he’d asked Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, to be the new White House press secretary, it felt like a callback to the freewheeling first-term Trump. “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States,” the president wrote on Truth Social, adding that he needed White and his band of mixed-martial-arts fighters “to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!” By weekend’s end, the possibility of the appointment had dissolved, though not without a subplot of speculation that Trump was confusing the impresario with another Dana White who had actually served as a Pentagon spokesperson during his first term. CNN reported that White had declined, and last night, Trump told reporters he never meant it anyway. “I was only kidding, but Dana loves the idea,” he said. Perhaps. Trump has a long record of launching outlandish ideas and then playing them off as jokes when they don’t work out. If it was all a jape, then the weak stab at humor seems to underestimate the electorate’s frustration with his antics. If he was serious and got rejected, it’s even worse. An old maxim goes that when the president of the United States asks you to do something, you do it. But Trump no longer has the juice he did in the early days of this administration, when billionaire tech CEOs were showering him with attention and the odd bauble. Last Tuesday evening, as election results rolled in, my colleague Jonathan Lemire wrote that “Donald J. Trump is now officially, thoroughly a lame duck.” Now we’re getting a glimpse of what that looks like in practice. Start with the cool reception that Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff received among Republicans. Representative Marlin Stutzman called it a “horrible decision.” Another legislator told Fox News that his reaction was “utter disbelief.” When a Politico reporter informed one member of the choice, they replied, “Please tell me you’re lying to me right now, just to get a reaction.” Take these statements with a grain of salt—Republicans have often been happy to talk trash about Trump anonymously while going along with him publicly—but whether or not they acquiesce with the president matters less now that the GOP is so outnumbered in Congress. One test of where House Republicans actually stand will come this week. Thomas Massie, a renegade GOP member who Trump helped defeat in a primary earlier this year, refiled articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today. Although Speaker Mike Johnson (speaking of lame ducks) had temporarily stymied Massie’s impeachment efforts in September by sending members home until after the midterms, the House is now back in session. Rounding up enough Republican votes to move the articles forward will be difficult but not impossible; a significant number of GOP members lost their seats last week, including many of the more moderate representatives, which means they are less in Trump’s thrall. Assuming that Hegseth is not impeached this month, it seems all but inevitable once Democrats take over. This weekend, presumptive Speaker Hakeem Jeffries said he’s a “hard yes” on impeachment. Republicans’ losses have produced infighting elsewhere in the party too. As Miller moves to take over, fallout from his predecessor Susie Wiles’s tenure continues. Calley Means, a former aide to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, where he accused Wiles and James Blair, a top Trump political adviser, of selling the MAHA movement out to corporate interests. The Wall Street Journal reports that, ahead of their public social-media fight, Blair texted Means, “If you are gonna try to knife me, I’m happy to return the favor.” Meanwhile Senator Ron Johnson, a hard-right figure from Wisconsin, has picked up on Means’s comments to accuse the Trump administration of “corruption.” One person in particular left somewhat unmoored by the results is Vice President Vance, who built his entire profile on closeness to a politician whose toxicity is now made plain. In a long post-election X post, Vance pinned the midterm defeat on the Iran war. This was widely seen as a swipe at the president and an attempt to position himself for 2028, but as The New Yorker’s Jason Zengerle observed, Vance “didn’t so much throw Trump under the bus as try to bring him on board his bandwagon by essentially putting words in Trump’s mouth.” But Trump does not seem inclined to cooperate. For one thing, he continues to defend the war. On 60 Minutes last night, he acknowledged the political fallout but said, “I think, historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not.” Speaking with reporters last night, he once again declared victory in the unresolved war with Iran and then claimed, falsely and callously, that “we haven’t lost anybody. No soldiers.” At other times, though, Trump has sounded unusually chastened since Election Day. He told The New York Times that he looks forward to working with the Democrats. He also acknowledged on 60 Minutes that his deportation policy, which “might be too tough,” could explain the GOP’s shellacking. “I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border,” he said, “but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.” A deescalation on immigration enforcement seems unlikely with Miller as chief of staff, given his role in implementing that policy, but the fact that Trump was willing to offer conciliatory remarks suggests that he is beginning to recognize the challenges of life as a lame duck. Related: Repudiation ICE after the blowout -
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony is this weekend. Who's getting in, and who's honoring them? Billy Idol, Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, Phil Collins, Sade, Queen Latifah, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order and the late Luther Vandross will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday. Read More.
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Congress: The Senate & The House
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Senate weighs sweeping energy legislation in first major action since midterm elections The Senate on Monday is set to take up bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for data centers and other infrastructure projects, in the first major action since last week’s election that soundly repudiated President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans. Read More. -
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Big Tech Companies
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Nvidia's investigation into CEO Huang's affair puts a spotlight on chip billionaire's personal life Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been one of the poster boys for the artificial intelligence revolution because his company's chips are essential for the technology. Now his personal life is in the spotlight after revelations of an affair with a purported Chinese spy that triggered an investigation by the board. Read More. Internal probe into CEO Jensen Huang and 'foreign intelligence' weighs on high-flying Nvidia shares Shares of Nvidia tumbled more than 5% Monday after the computer chip maker, central to the artificial intelligence race, opened an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.” Read More. -
Japan to provide coastal radar and drones to the Philippines under $27M deal Japan said it will provide a coastal surveillance radar system and unmanned aircraft to the Philippines under a security deal signed Monday, as the two defense partners face growing tensions with China. Read More.
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Diamond-rich Botswana says it will increase its stake in De Beers to 30% under proposed sale Botswana's president said Monday that the diamond-rich southern African country will double its stake in De Beers to 30% under a proposed deal by a consortium of investors to buy Anglo American's shares in the company. Read More.
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Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed
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FBI is looking at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese agent, Trump says WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent, but said he doesn’t think the executive who has helped to develop artificial intelligence has a reason to worry. https://apnews.com/article/china-denies-spy-jensen-huang-nvidia-3345b9f05c54d58909e88f6dcb9c1cd8? -
What every church worker needs to hear, but few people are willing to say. The post When the Church Hurts: A Survival Guide for Those Called to Serve <label class="rltv-edition-check-wrap" onclick="event.stopPropagation();" title="Add to 5-Story Mini-Newspaper"><input type="checkbox" class="rltv-story-checkbox" data-id="170511860" data-title="When the Church Hurts: A Survival Guide for Those Called to Serve" /><span>+ Edition</span></label> appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article -
Crimes, Homicides & Suicides
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Cold case solved Two young women were sexually assaulted and strangled outside of Pittsburgh nearly 50 years ago. For decades, the answer to who did it remained a mystery. Now police say a serial killer was responsible.