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MAGA senator takes aim at Trump cabinet official as growing scandal reaches White House
A Republican senator is pressing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify as the fallout from Nvidia's growing scandal reaches President Donald Trump's Cabinet.Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) sent separate letters Thursday asking Lutnick and former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear before his committee in December, Politico reported in an exclusive. The request "sets the stage for a pair of high-profile oversight events next month," the outlet reported.Scott asked Huang to testify Dec. 3 and warned that he could face a subpoena if he declines to appear voluntarily. In his letter, Scott said reports about Huang's relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset "raise significant national security concerns."Huang stepped down as Nvidia's CEO earlier Thursday. The company has been at the center of a fight in Washington over whether U.S. companies should be allowed to sell advanced AI chips to China.Scott asked Lutnick to appear Dec. 10, as Republicans on Capitol Hill press for answers about the Commerce Department's handling of chip exports."Given the Department of Commerce's central role in issuing and enforcing export control regulations, your testimony before the Committee will be essential to our oversight of these efforts," Scott wrote.Spokespeople for Lutnick's department, Huang and Nvidia did not immediately respond to Politico's requests for comment.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer for majority leader
A 24-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Friday in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.Just after 1 a.m., police and paramedics responded to reports of a crash with injuries at Chelten Avenue and Baynton Street. When they arrived, they found the man lying unresponsive in the roadway, according to Chief Inspector Scott Small.The man was rushed to Einstein Hospital, where he died minutes later.A preliminary investigation found that the victim was riding a small electric motorcycle when a white or light-colored sedan struck him.Witnesses told police the sedan was traveling westbound on Chelten Avenue when it struck the man. The driver then drove away from the scene, continuing westbound on Chelten Avenue, police said.Investigators believe the crash occurred beneath a railroad trestle, rather than at an intersection or crosswalk. Police have not determined which direction the victim was traveling at the time.The impact appeared to have thrown the motorcycle more than 100 feet, with the victim and the motorcycle found in separate locations. Small said the man’s sneakers were also knocked off during the crash, with one found in the roadway beneath the trestle and the other on the sidewalk, approximately 75 to 100 feet apart.Investigators recovered several broken white vehicle parts that police said may have come from a Ford vehicle. However, police have not released a description of the driver or identified the specific vehicle model.According to Small, the electric motorcycle the victim was riding was not street legal because it lacked lights, turn signals, a license plate and an inspection sticker.Anyone with any information that could help in this investigation is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously online here.
Who is Colette Kress, interim Nvidia CEO after Jensen Huang exit?
Chief financial officer, reportedly disparaged by Huang during summer meeting, to take over on short-term basisThe hunt is on for a new Nvidia CEO. It comes after a whirlwind week, which saw the company head and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resign amid multiple allegations of extramarital affairs, including one that involved an alleged Chinese spy and two with company employees.Nvidia immediately named Colette Kress, the company's chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. It's possible she could stay on permanently, but the company could also name another candidate for the full-time role. Names that have been floated include Ian Buck, who manages Nvidia's AI hardware and software products, and Rene Haas, a former Nvidia employee and the current CEO of Arm Holdings, a UK-based chipmaker. Continue reading...
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Third fatal motorcycle crash on Las Vegas roads in 1 week
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This time it's personal: Pete Hegseth's fresh vulgarity sends him plunging to new low
For years, when I lived in Washington, I made the same pilgrimage. I would run or bike across the Potomac on the Memorial Bridge to Arlington National Cemetery and find my Uncle Bob.First Lieutenant Robert P. Casey, a 25-year-old navigator from Bellevue, Pennsylvania, was killed in a plane crash in North Africa on December 29, 1944.My father's own father died six months before my dad was born in 1926, and Bob, eight years older, became his father figure. My dad never recovered from his death. I never got to meet Uncle Bob. But I spent hours at his grave, in the hush of that cemetery, getting to know him the only way I could.Everyone who tells me about Uncle Bob says the same thing: he was kind and decent to a fault, and he served with pride. He surely did not think of himself as a warrior or a man with a warrior ethos. Nobody ever described him counting push-ups or fretting about his testosterone.The men and women at Arlington did not die worrying about their "T" levels, how much they could bench-press, or "woke" culture. They died for their country, and they came from everywhere.Up the hill from Uncle Bob, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy rest where the whole city spreads out below, and the Lincoln Memorial stands grandly across the river. Anyone who has stood at their graves knows why it moves people.And anyone who has stood at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier knows the rule that governs it. It is the quietest place in Arlington and the quietest place in Washington, a town otherwise addicted to noise and, in recent years, the screaming, vile language that emanates from the Trump administration.This week, that disrespectful noise followed Pete Hegseth in.On Veterans Day, after a ceremony at the Tomb, Hegseth's entourage stopped to pose for photographs. A loud laugh rang out, and the sentinel on duty had to do what no soldier should ever have to do. He scolded the Pentagon's leader — an atrocious one — instructing that all visitors maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect.A spokesman said the soldier handled it professionally, and I'm sure he did. The shame belongs to the people being corrected, not the young soldier who corrected them. Hegseth gave him a medal on Thursday, which was the smart thing to do, and completely opposite to the way Hegseth usually handles someone who goes against him. But still.Anyone with a sense of decorum and a modicum of decency knows that you don't giggle at the Tomb. You don't hold a conversation as if you're strolling through a crowded mall. I've seen children on school trips at that grave. They understand that. The man who runs the Department of Defense and his staff are obtuse to it, as they are about many things important to the military.Hegseth has spent his tenure treating the military like a mob hit squad and a Tough Mudder workout. He has insulted Black officers, women, and transgender and queer troops, many of whom are not only serving but are buried at Arlington.When he disrespects them, he disrespects all of them. Those above and below the hallowed ground where they are buried.He is hardly alone in this vulgarity. His boss once called fallen soldiers "suckers" and "losers" and mocked John McCain for being captured. And that is the man whose vision for Arlington's surroundings is all about a 250-foot triumphal arch abomination.Trump's atrocity would rise at Memorial Circle, directly across the river from the Lincoln Memorial. It would interrupt the line of sight that connects the memorial and the cemetery, a line meant to symbolize the reunification of the nation after the Civil War. It would stand more than twice as tall as the Lincoln Memorial itself, roughly the height of a 25-story office building, topped with golden angels and a flame.According to The Washington Post, a website promoted by the White House on November 6, 2026, debuted new designs showing "Golden Age of America" emblazoned in large gold letters on the arch. It replaces "Liberty and Justice for All," and the more reverent "One Nation Under God."Scores of people and groups are coming forward to try to stop the building of this travesty. Veterans are suing, along with a historian, the District of Columbia, Virginia and Arlington County. Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan has already barred the administration from beginning site work for 14 days.And this week, nine members of the Kennedy family asked the court to stop it, arguing that the monument would cast a shadow over the graves of their relatives. Of course, the loathsome Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who serves in Trump's Cabinet, did not join them.They are not asking for a favor. They are asking that a grave and the memory of a fallen president not be darkened. It's the ultimate insult directed at the Kennedys by Trump.He has tried to put his name on the Kennedy Center, a monument to a murdered president's love of the arts. Now he wants a monument to himself looming over that president's grave. Whenever there is something beautiful, quiet and revered, Trump tries to find a way to make it about himself.Arlington belongs to my Uncle Bob, to the Kennedys, and to hundreds of thousands of people who never got to come home and who are owed our silence, reverence and utmost respect.Hegseth can't keep his mouth shut. Trump wants the loud hum of cranes and bulldozers. But when I think of Arlington, I will always think of Uncle Bob, and the quiet, dignity and decency that he and everyone buried there deserve.
The Nvidia scandal has wiped away $1T in value. What that means for your investments
Nvidia shares plunged early Thursday after CEO Jensen Huang resigned, before climbing back up to finish the day down 4.3 per cent. It's bad news for industry-watchers, but touches regular investors too because of the chipmaker's weight in major stock indexes.
MAGA senator takes aim at Trump cabinet official as growing scandal reaches White House
A Republican senator is pressing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify as the fallout from Nvidia's growing scandal reaches President Donald Trump's Cabinet.Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) sent separate letters Thursday asking Lutnick and former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear before his committee in December, Politico reported in an exclusive. The request "sets the stage for a pair of high-profile oversight events next month," the outlet reported.Scott asked Huang to testify Dec. 3 and warned that he could face a subpoena if he declines to appear voluntarily. In his letter, Scott said reports about Huang's relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset "raise significant national security concerns."Huang stepped down as Nvidia's CEO earlier Thursday. The company has been at the center of a fight in Washington over whether U.S. companies should be allowed to sell advanced AI chips to China.Scott asked Lutnick to appear Dec. 10, as Republicans on Capitol Hill press for answers about the Commerce Department's handling of chip exports."Given the Department of Commerce's central role in issuing and enforcing export control regulations, your testimony before the Committee will be essential to our oversight of these efforts," Scott wrote.Spokespeople for Lutnick's department, Huang and Nvidia did not immediately respond to Politico's requests for comment.
'It's ludicrous': CNN panel unloads on Trump's boast about beating Obama
President Donald Trump's insistence that he could easily defeat former President Barack Obama in a hypothetical presidential election drew ridicule Thursday from a CNN panel, with one commentator suggesting there was only one contest Trump could win."It's ludicrous," CNN political commentator Jamal Simmons said on "Erin Burnett OutFront."The backlash followed Trump's interview with Stephen A. Smith, during which the president claimed he would have little trouble defeating Obama."Yeah, I think I'd beat him easily," Trump said. "I think he's highly overrated."Asked why, Trump called Obama a "divider" while describing himself as someone who brings Americans together "through success."Simmons dismissed the boast on CNN, recalling Obama's campaign appearances ahead of the midterms and his mockery of Trump's decorating tastes. "We almost had a moment during the last campaign where it really was mano a mano Trump versus Obama," Simmons said, adding that Obama's criticism appeared to send Trump into "a little bit of a spiral."Maura Gillespie, a Republican strategist, accused Trump of attempting to "rewrite history in real time.""The midterms themselves was a massive rebuke," she said, adding that the president's approval rating "is plummeting" because of people's frustrations with him.But Iraq War veteran and national security commentator Paul Rieckhoff delivered perhaps the sharpest jab. "Donald Trump would beat Barack Obama in a Big Mac eating contest," Rieckhoff quipped. "I mean, I don't think there's much else he'd beat him in right now. Definitely not a popularity contest."Rieckhoff called Obama "maybe the most effective communicator of our time" and argued that Trump's confrontational style had made him increasingly unpopular."This is not a fight he's going to win," he added.
Pete Hegseth and others reprimanded by guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh are expected in court Friday to ask a judge to throw out the original murder indictments for killing his wife and son. Now they’re saying the chief investigator in the case lied to the grand jury.Murdaugh is facing a retrial on the murder charges after the South Carolina Supreme Court threw out his convictions and life sentence, ruling that a court clerk improperly influenced jurors against him during his 2023 trial.Even if the longshot request to dismiss the indictments is granted by Judge Debra McCaslin at Friday’s pretrial hearing, it may not stop or even postpone an April retrial for the disgraced lawyer. Prosecutors can seek another set of grand jury indictments as soon as next month, and defense attorneys said they won't stop them. But a ruling for Murdaugh would be another rebuke of the chief investigator, State Law Enforcement Division agent David Owen.A judge last year threw out a different murder case Owen was involved in because the dead woman’s mother told the agent about a suicide threat her daughter made days before she died that Owen never relayed to prosecutors or defense attorneys.Owen abruptly retired in 2024, not long after he was honored as State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. Crime and Courts May 18 Alex Murdaugh sues clerk whose behavior led state Supreme Court to overturn his murder convictions Crime and Courts May 14 Juror who helped convict Alex Murdaugh is shocked by decision to overturn guilty verdict Crime and Courts May 13 Alex Murdaugh's double-murder convictions overturned Prosecutors said Murdaugh, 58, killed his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, on their sprawling property in the South Carolina Lowcountry in 2021. Murdaugh is spending decades in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients, and has admitted in court that he is a thief, insurance cheat, bad lawyer and longtime opioid addict. But he denies being a killer.Defense lawyers said that as prosecutors sought the indictments, Owen told the Colleton County grand jury that blood spatter was found on a T-shirt Murdaugh was wearing the night of the killings. An earlier report from state agents said there were no blood stains, and no such evidence was introduced at trial.Owen also told grand jurors that the same ammunition load of buckshot in one chamber and large birdshot in the other used to kill Paul Murdaugh was found loaded in weapons all over the Murdaugh property, which wasn’t the case.Prosecutors said they had plenty of other evidence supporting the murder charges, and wrote that "a single mistake is not bad faith." Owen told grand jurors about the video Paul Murdaugh recorded in which Alex Murdaugh’s voice could be heard at the scene, contradicting his denials. Owen also told them about the family’s mounting debts and how Murdaugh’s schemes to steal from clients and his law firm were close to being discovered.But Murdaugh’s lawyers have repeatedly pointed out how little physical evidence prosecutors have — no DNA or blood was found splattered on Murdaugh or any of his clothes, even though the killings were at close range with powerful weapons that were never found.Prosecutors said Murdaugh killed his wife and son because he thought the sympathy generated by the killings would buy him time to cover up his thefts.
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Paper Tiger (115 minutes)
Two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.
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2001 — Northern Alliance Capture of Kabul, 2001
On the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, the army of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured the capital city of Kabul
1985 — 1985 Mount Ruiz eruption in Colombia kills 25,000
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1980 — Raging Bull Premieres as an American Classic
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1940 — Fantasia's Controversial Public Debut
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1918 — Saad Zaghloul Founds Al-Wafd Party in Egypt
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1916 — Allied Offensive on the Somme River
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