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Nvidia launches investigation into CEO’s affair with suspected Chinese spy
BBC: He said: “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I…
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U.S. cleared Nvidia chips to Chinese firms with empty offices and troubling ties
New York Times: The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia’s H200 chips, some of which have ties to…
Top House Democrat says he’s ‘hard yes’ on Pete Hegseth impeachment
Washington Post: “The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and…
Bank collapse exposes dark side of Latin America’s star economy
Financial Times: The presidency of Santiago Peña, a smooth-talking former IMF economist, unravelled in less than 72 hours this week after…
Russian spymaster claimed to have toppled Austrian leader
Telegraph: Jan Marsalek, the fugitive former Wirecard executive, said he had been involved in an operation that had “successfully toppled”…
Putin may not want peace, warns Norwegian leader who spoke to him
Politico: But at the same time, “the fact that he picks up that phone” to talk “I think that signals, at least that there’s a readiness to sit…
Disposable: Ordinary people doing Russia’s dirty work
Politico: With its own officers finding it harder to operate in Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the GRU increasingly relies on…
Rubio warned officials about Nvidia chief’s entanglement with Chinese spy
New York Times: Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of the highly classified memo this past spring warning top Trump…
Difficult options Trump weighing to resolve war in Iran
New York Times: The choices are made all the more vexing for Mr. Trump by his new, lame-duck status. The Iranians will be calculating that he…
Justice Dept. mulled naming The Times as conspirator in Comey leak case
New York Times: It remains unclear how the Justice Department might proceed. The move would be a major escalation of the Trump…
Trans people who regret decision shut out of debate on bill
Telegraph: The LGB Alliance wrote to the bill committee with a list of three people prepared to give evidence about the harms they had…
Terror tsar: China’s AI bot rewriting history
Telegraph: Jonathan Hall downloaded Qwen3 to his wife’s laptop. It told him the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened…
Republican infighting mounts over corruption claims after midterms wipeout
Financial Times: A top Republican senator has lashed out at “corruption” within Donald Trump’s administration as recriminations mount within…
UK must ‘catch up’ with Europe in opposing Russian threat, says military chief
Financial Times: “We’re talking about targeted assassinations, we’re talking about sabotage, we’re talking about cyber attacks. These are very…
Evan Gershkovich on prison, Russia and liberty
Reuters: Freed in an East-West prisoner swap after 491 days in a Russian prison, the author of “This Cursed Beautiful Land”…
Apple saves $2.7bn in taxes by booking profits in Singapore
Financial Times: The figures, filed together with Apple’s annual report under new US reporting requirements, reveal the company took advantage…
Hegseth mounts aggressive campaign to fight pending impeachment
Wall Street Journal: The embattled defense secretary’s defiant stance has set the stage for a bruising clash with lawmakers frustrated over…
Election drubbing complicates Vance’s calculation on whether to run in 2028
Wall Street Journal: Within 24 hours of the election, one veteran New York fundraiser began fielding calls from deep-pocketed donors voicing…
New swing voter: Young, underemployed and deeply disillusioned
Wall Street Journal: Many young adults either flipped to Democrats or stayed home as grocery bills, student debt and sluggish wages caught up…
Miller poised to push limits of Trump’s power despite midterm rebuke
New York Times: There was no talk of the results of the midterms or suggestion of scaling back the hard-line immigration approach that…
Crypto industry braces for reckoning over Trump ties
Financial Times: Democrats made the president’s alleged self-dealing and “crypto pay-offs” a defining issue in the elections, helping them win…
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