Nvidia’s board meets over CEO’s future as the AI giant reels from the China spy scandal.
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And, how American Legion halls are adapting as the veteran population shrinks.
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Nvidia’s board weighs CEO Jensen Huang’s fate, reports say
Nvidia’s board was addressing CEO Jensen Huang’s future at the company last night, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News, as the American chipmaking giant reeled from the scandal surrounding its leader’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
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Nvidia shares dropped almost 9% in after-hours trading amid multiple reports that Huang’s future hung in the balance.
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The company’s board met following a new report in The New York Times that he also had a relationship with an Nvidia executive who reported to him.
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Citing five people who worked at Nvidia, the newspaper reported that Huang had an affair with another woman, in addition to a woman who was suspected of being a Chinese spy.
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Huang wrote in a note to employees Sunday that he had been “unfaithful to his wife,” though he did not specify details.
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NBC News reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had determined that the first woman, Alice Huang, was a Chinese intelligence operative.
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China has dismissed the allegations, calling them “purely unsubstantiated and directed at smearing China.”
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“The U.S. side should stop fabricating so-called espionage narratives as a pretext for implementing technological blockades,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters today.
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- For subscribers: Alice Huang began her career as a TV reporter for China’s state media.
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She shifted into work in finance and later became a video game executive.
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Along the way, she picked up another job, U.S. intelligence agencies believe: spy.
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- In its first statement since reports emerged about Huang’s extramarital affair, the company at the center of the spy scandal said it will cooperate with U.S. government investigations.
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Singapore-based Megaspeed said it takes its obligation to comply with U.S. export control laws “extremely seriously.”
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5 dead, at least 17 injured in Brooklyn building collapse
At least five people died and more than a dozen others were hurt when an apartment building collapsed in New York City, officials said, sparking a search by firefighters through piles of rubble.
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Seven children and a firefighter were among the people injured, the Fire Department of New York said.
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A man told NBC New York that his brother, Jose Luis Caguana, was killed in the collapse.
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Caguana, a 26-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, was working in construction to support his family, including his pregnant wife.
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The collapse occurred at a four-unit building dating from 1930 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on the edge of a construction site where a one-story building had been previously demolished.
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It was unclear what caused the collapse.
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Dems expand Senate majority as GOP dodges blaming Trump
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For the first time in 44 years, Mississippi has a Democratic senator.
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In a major upset, Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, capping a razor-thin race that at times during counting was separated by less than 100 votes.
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Colom’s victory will give Democrats at least 55 Senate seats, as he’s the eighth Democrat to flip a Republican-held seat for the year.
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Republicans will have 44 seats.
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The only Senate race left to be called is in Alaska.
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Colom’s win — and the results and exit polls from the midterm elections nationwide — tell a clear story: A country that elected Trump in 2024 to lower the cost of living deemed him a failure.
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But even as they say they want a course correction, GOP lawmakers are deeply reluctant to blame the president or change his policies.
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It’s not just the president,” said Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose red district in Colorado became an unexpectedly close race that’s yet to be called.
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“We collectively failed.”
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How other GOP lawmakers have tiptoed around Trump.
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More politics news:
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was reprimanded yesterday by an Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier who asked him and his guests to maintain an atmosphere of “silence and respect.”
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Hegseth, his wife and some of his top aides were taking pictures and laughing in front of the tomb, located at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hegseth had been attending a Veterans Day ceremony.
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- The White House has warned Democrats that their threats to investigate the Trump administration may be criminal.
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- For subscribers: The men who say Rep. Jim Jordan failed to protect them from a predator at Ohio State University when he was an assistant wrestling coach were outraged at his election to the top GOP role in the House.
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Staff Pick: A tribute to the American Legion
Her brother serves in the National Guard.
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Her uncle fought in Afghanistan as a member of the U.S. Army.
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…and 15 more, not listed.
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