Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in pre-market trading following a report from The New York Times that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair. The company’s board was reportedly meeting on Wednesday night to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the reports. The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.Huang is already under investigation for an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. The CEO admitted the affair in a memo to employees. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry,” Huang wrote.The Information reported on Tuesday that Alice Huang is believed to be involved in a network of Chinese companies that facilitated the shipment of $7.5 billion ‌in chip sales to China.Given the size and importance of Nvidia in the stock market today, the revelation marks one of the biggest CEO-personal conduct scandals in history. It also highlights Nvidia’s key-person risk and uncertain succession plan as questions swirl about whether the board will ask Huang to step down.The news has drawn immediate and varied reactions from leaders ranging from the US president to other CEOs. President Trump stood by Huang, calling him “an honorable guy,” but other members of the president’s party are expected to put more scrutiny on the company. Trump also stated on Monday that the FBI was looking into Huang’s relationship.In a statement on Sunday, Nvidia’s board said it has “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.”Follow along for live updates and reactions.This article originally appeared on Yahoo Finance at https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/live/nvidia-live-updates-nvidia-stock-tanks-in-after-hours-after-allegations-of-a-second-affair-surface-222438011.html

At least five people were killed and 17 others injured Wednesday, when a three-story building collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.The four-unit apartment building crumpled into a construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET. Seven of the casualties were children, Reuters reported, with at least 17 people taken to a hospital. Four were in a critical condition. Authorities did not confirm if any of the children were among those killed. Two deaths were announced on Wednesday. Firefighters removed three more bodies on Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported.Rescuers searched for survivors into the night with about 250 first responders at the scene. “We’ll continue to look until we find everybody,” FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.A pregnant woman was among those trapped in the rubble. Footage broadcast by CBS News New York showed her being pulled out by rescuers more than two hours after the building collapsed, while her husband waited in anguish.”She is alive. She is still alive. I’m very happy. I’m very happy. I’m very happy. I thank all of you guys,” he told CBS News New York after she was rescued. “She’s pregnant, six months.”The interiors of apartments in an adjacent damaged building were exposed after the building collapsed.Anadolu via Getty ImagesEarlier, the man had been seen frantically looking for her. “I’ve heard nothing. She’s inside the building. She’s pregnant,” he told reporters.One resident, Anderson Velez, told the New York Post he was at work in the Bronx when his wife called him and said their children, ages 7 and 2, were trapped.”She called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her. She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off,” he said, confirming his family was now safe.An eyewitness, Melissa Orna, told The New York Times: “The whole building started shaking, and then it just fell.”Crews worked throughout the night to rescue those still trapped inside the collapsed building. New York television station WABC-TV reported that a pregnant woman was pulled from the rubble hours after the collapse.Where the bridge collapse in Brooklyn.Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe 1930s building fell into an adjoining construction site, where excavation work was ongoing. The cause of the collapse is under investigation, said John Esposito, the city’s fire department chief. He said rescue teams may need to take several days to search the site for all potential victims.Officials have described the search and rescue mission as “very dangerous,” with firefighters and police officers punching holes through rubble in the search for survivors.”Multiple people from the building and the construction site were trapped,” Bonsignore said. “This will be a prolonged operation. Collapse operations are extremely dangerous. Every move is choreographed and critically important to patient outcomes and member safety. Members have been working methodically and haven’t stopped since they arrived.”No official cause for the collapse has been released.First responders search through rubble and debris at the scene of a building collapse in Brooklyn.Anadolu via Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference that rescue workers arrived on the scene within one minute of receiving the 911 call. He also confirmed the fatalities and said that injured people had been transported to local hospitals.”This has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation – with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface,” he said, adding, “This type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY trains for.”He also asked New Yorkers to “please take a moment to pray for those who passed away today and all of those who are mourning their loss.”This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/brooklyn-building-collapse-at-least-5-dead-and-17-injured-as-rescuers-search-for-survivors-pregnant-woman-pulled-from-rubble-113416871.html

After a primary season that featured a string of wins for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, the moderates are striking back by claiming credit for a landslide midterm takeover of Congress. The party will return to Capitol Hill in 2027 with at least 54 Senate seats and 255 House seats, thanks to wins in deep-red districts and states such as Kansas and Iowa. And many of the candidates, such as megachurch pastor and Kansas Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, avoided staking out controversial progressive policy proposals. “It is incredibly striking and profound that Democratic moderates were able to hand Trumpism some of its biggest defeats this cycle,” Kate DeGruyter, a spokeswoman for Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, told USA TODAY. The debate over how and why Democrats won will influence what measures the new majority caucuses will take up first and how far those actions should go. Third Way struck early, with a Nov. 4 memo that claimed “high-quality” moderate candidates “were the majority makers” in this year’s midterms. Of the 44 House seats that flipped this cycle, about 29 came from red districts that President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024. The group calculates those candidates outperformed former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 margin by an average of 15 percentage points in those districts. Democrats have similarly flipped at least seven Senate seats in states the president won with contenders who’ve ripped the White House, but stopped short of demanding Medicare for All or abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “That’s a pretty profound answer to this question that we’ve long debated about whether all of the energy is on the left,” DeGruyter said. “There was a hell of a lot of energy in North Carolina and Georgia and Kansas and Texas, and that is why Democrats have an incredible opportunity here to take back the middle from Trump.” Democrats who flipped red states and districts hold mixed views Like many of the Democrats who flipped Republican seats, Hamilton − who won by 5 percentage points in Kansas, which hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president − stressed being “independent-minded.” Hamilton, a 62-year-old Methodist pastor and former Republican, espoused views cheered by the Democratic base such as opposing tax breaks for AI data centers, expanding Medicare coverage for seniors and investigating “private equity consolidation” to break up monopolies. He also supports restoring what he called “disastrous cuts” to Medicaid through the president’s “one, big beautiful” bill. But in post-election interviews, the Kansas Democrat has already begun positioning himself as a counterweight to more liberal-minded colleagues on Medicare for All, which he said isn’t the “right approach” on health care. “Even though it sounds great, I don’t think it’s going to pass,” Hamilton said during a Nov. 8 interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “You’re talking about an entire health insurance industry with millions and millions of employees that is going to be affected by Medicare for All.” Oliver Libby, a Democratic consultant, said there will be “many mothers to the success” the party had this fall but noted that many Americans are drifting away from party and ideological labels. He attributed the decisive margin this month to a coalition of independents and previously disengaged voters, who largely backed Democrats in purple districts. “People who have been homeless politically came in in overwhelming numbers, and not just came in for Democrats, but switched sides or came off the sidelines profoundly in this cycle,” Libby said. “I don’t think this was a victory for the Democratic brand,” he added. “I’m not entirely sure the Democrats have a brand right now, and I think that’s something that they absolutely have to fix between now and the 2028 presidential race.” Democrats running in red states in 2026 were often difficult to pigeonhole ideologically. Sen.-elect Josh Turek, who won in Iowa after Trump carried the state by double digits two years ago, prefers creating a public health insurance option to Medicare for All. On social issues, the two-time Paralympic gold medalist released an ad that infuriated some Iowa Democrats and trans rights supporters for opposing transgender women competing in female sports and “taxpayers paying for sex changes.” Libby points out that roughly two-thirds of self-described moderate voters supported the Democratic candidate in their local contests, up from the approximately 6 in 10 moderates who backed Harris in 2024, the Associated Press reported. Progressives push back against centrist narrative Progressive activists say many of the candidates being labeled “moderate” by centrist groups are better described as “outsiders.” Many of those candidates running in historically Republican areas ran against corporate power and the Washington establishment of both parties. “If those who call themselves moderate want to put their label on issues that we’ve (championed) and trying to make more popular for years, then great, we have consensus around our issues — that’s awesome,” said Adam Green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a left-leaning grassroots group involved in several primary contests this year. The PCCC backed Sen.-elect James Talarico, of Texas, along with candidates such as Rep.-elect Darializa Avila Chevalier of New York, one of six democratic socialists heading to Washington. During much of the Texas Senate race, Talarico, who prevailed by 12 percentage points, railed against billionaires. He often talked about U.S. politics being more “top versus bottom” rather than left versus right. On the senator-elect’s website, Talarico said he supports making “billionaires pay their fair share in taxes, including by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains,” which Green and others say sounds much more like Sens. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, than so-called moderate Democrats. But Talarico also tried to back away from the progressive label as he campaigned in a state that hadn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in over 30 years. During the course of the campaign, the 37-year-old state legislator and Presbyterian seminary student said he opposed abolishing ICE and reversed course on supporting trans athletes in girls’ sports. The PCCC’s sister organization, PCCC Institute, shared its “How Dems Ran” database, which examined 60 competitive midterm elections, exclusively with USA TODAY. Research examined those candidates’ debates, speeches, social media content, campaign ads and websites, finding Democrats who won even in red states and districts supported many left-leaning proposals. Roughly 98% backed a ban on stock trading by lawmakers, according to the group’s research. Another 85% supported some version of expanding public health care coverage through either Medicare for All, a public option, or Medicare buy-in. An October KFF poll showed 66% of U.S. adults favor having a national health plan, the largest total since the foundation began measuring the issue in 2017. That support includes 72% of independents and 34% of Republicans who support Medicare for All, according to the survey. “If the corporate-aligned Democrats at Third Way want to somehow lay claim to that style of politics, we’ve just won the battle for this whole of the Democratic Party,” Green told USA TODAY. Some progressive candidates also won in swing states, such as Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who supports Medicare for All and ending U.S. aid to Israel. He won Michigan by 8 percentage points and has been touted by progressives as proof their movement can win, in the words of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, “anywhere.” Populists who defy center or left label Some red-state winners, such as Rep.-elect Sam Forstag, of Montana, created a populist message that was embraced by top progressive figures from the outset of his campaign against Republican Aaron Flint to replace Ryan Zinke, a Republican who served as interior secretary in Trump’s first term. The 32-year-old union leader and political newcomer won by three percentage points in a western Montana district, which borders Idaho, that Trump won by four times as much in 2024. He was endorsed by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez but later received support during the general election from the moderate Blue Dog Coalition. “We don’t see our, like, fundamental lived experience reflected in the people who are representing us purportedly in Congress,” Forstag told USA TODAY. He believes in expanding Medicare, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and banning congressional stock trading. But he also favors reforming ICE over abolishing the agency and supports protecting gun rights. Forstag will join both the rival Blue Dogs and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He explained his desire to embrace populism in a social media video Nov. 9, saying both factions are needed to achieve the American people’s goals. “I will be one of just a few Democrats who are sitting in both of those caucuses,” he said. “You see, the overlap is, well, giving us the chance to fight for populist economic policies that are actually going to help working people.” Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter bested scandal-ridden Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, a Trump White House alum whose bitter divorce battle involved domestic violence allegations from Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno, by 10 percentage points. Poindexter’s campaign contrasted Miller’s biography with the union ironworker’s rugged image. He is counted among the flips by centrist groups, but progressives point out that he called for ending tax breaks for the wealthy, banning dark money spending in campaigns and supported a “phased in approach” for Medicare for All. During that race for the northeastern Ohio seat, Poindexter also expressed his support for law enforcement when he ran campaign ads featuring an Ohio sheriff. “When you see the world through the prism of outsider, insider—everything makes sense,” Green said about the midterm outcomes for Democrats. “Poindexter ran as an economic populist outsider and spoke to many of those same people who voted for Trump,” he added. “I don’t think he’s run away from his values, but even Trump voters don’t self-identify in many cases as being of one ideology. They want someone who’s going to shake up a broken economic and political system and stand up to corporate power.” This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Moderates and progressives both claim credit for 2026 Democratic winsThis article originally appeared on USA TODAY at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/11/12/democrats-midterms-blue-wave-moderate-progressive/92705249007/

Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom narrowly defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to flip another Senate seat for Democrats and become the first Black candidate elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi in more than 140 years.According to figures from the Associated Press, Colom — who will also be Mississippi’s first Democratic senator since 1989 — won 49.2% of the vote. Hyde-Smith finished with 48.7%. “There were times that I couldn’t get donors to answer the phone,” Colom told supporters as they celebrated his historic upset late Wednesday night. “They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith.”Mississippi — one of the reddest states in the country — wasn’t really on the national radar prior to Nov. 3. President Trump won the state by 23 percentage points in 2024 — his third straight win there. Looking ahead to the 2026 Senate race, analysts said it was a “likely Republican” hold. Barely anyone bothered to poll it. But by the end of Election Night, Colom and Hyde-Smith were separated by just 65 votes, shocking the nation.Colom’s win expands Democrats’ total number of Senate seats to 55 and cements the party’s best overall midterm performance since 1974 — a rout that has seen the GOP lose control of the Senate, the House and statehouses across the country. As lawyers, operatives and legal observers descended on Mississippi to watch officials count every last ballot, Colom repeatedly expressed confidence that his campaign would prevail, flooding the airwaves and attending at least eight post-election events. “It’s very clear the direction of this,” he told reporters on Friday.  Colom picked up that thread in Wednesday’s victory speech. “I’ve been telling everybody that we’re going to win this election,” he said. “I was saying it 8 or 9 months ago. But every time I said it, I pointed out that people were going to give me too much credit for it because it’s not something that I did. It’s something that we did. All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this. I had the courage to believe in Mississippi.”Hyde-Smith conceded to Colom in a video posted on X Wednesday evening: “While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters,” she said. “I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state.”Alaska is now the only undecided Senate race. Democrat Mary Peltola leads Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan 48.9% to 47.3% with 84% of the vote counted, according to the latest AP figures.Who is Scott Colom?Colom, 43, was born in Columbus, Miss., to two lawyers who also participated in politics. In 1987, his father, Wilbur, ran for state treasurer as a Republican; his mother, Dorothy, served as the first Black Chancery Court judge in their home district. Colom earned his JD from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 and went on to serve as the first Black justice court judge in Lowndes County, Miss., before becoming the first Black city prosecutor in Columbus. In 2015, Colom defeated a nearly 30-year incumbent to become the first Black district attorney elected in a majority-white voting district in Mississippi history. He has since prosecuted a number of high-profile murder and sexual assault cases.Colom gives an update about his Senate race on Nov. 4, 2026 in Jackson, Miss.Rogelio V. Solis/Getty ImagesIn 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Colom to serve as federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi. Leading Magnolia State Republicans — including Sen. Roger Wicker and former Govs. Phil Bryant and Haley Barbour — backed Colom’s nomination. “I have known two generations of the Colom family for over 20 years and believe Scott Colom possesses the discernment to be a fair and exemplary judge,” Bryant told the New York Times.But Hyde-Smith blocked Colom’s nomination in the Senate, citing support his 2015 campaign received from a political action committee funded by George Soros and claiming that he favored allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. The White House characterized Hyde-Smith’s concerns as “spurious.” In a letter to Hyde-Smith urging her to reconsider, Colom confirmed that he had signed a letter with other prosecutors condemning efforts to criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender people, but insisted that their joint statement “did not comment on legislation specifically related to participation in athletics.” Colom also said he had not known about Soros’s contributions to the Mississippi Safety and Justice PAC “until I read about them in my hometown paper.”Colom’s unsuccessful nomination was returned to Biden on Jan. 3, 2024. In September 2025, Colom announced his U.S. Senate candidacy.How Colom wonHyde-Smith, 67, is a former lobbyist and state legislator who was serving as Mississippi’s agriculture and commerce commissioner when she was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2018 following the resignation of Republican Sen. Thad Cochran. She won a 2018 special election and a 2020 full-term election, and she has served in the Senate ever since. There were signs before Election Day that Hyde-Smith might be vulnerable to “voter apathy,” as one Mississippi State University political science professor recently put it. Sen. Wicker won reelection in 2024 by 25 points; Hyde-Smith’s margin of victory in 2020 was less than half that. And while the only polls made public this cycle showed Hyde-Smith ahead, her leads were stuck in the single digits — no survey put her support above 50%. One April Democratic poll showed Hyde-Smith trailing a hypothetical “someone else” 33% to 53%. Hyde-Smith speaks at a campaign event in Corinth, Miss., on Oct. 26, 2026.Madison Thorn/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRegardless, Hyde-Smith seemed content to coast to reelection, barely bothering to appear on the campaign trail. But Colom didn’t have that luxury — and when he cut a viral campaign ad about beef prices in mid-October, the tide started to turn. Asked earlier this year about soaring costs, including the price of beef, Hyde-Smith told local TV station WLOX that “all commodities go through peaks and valleys,” but “you have so many proteins to choose from.”In the final weeks of the campaign, Colom seized on Hyde-Smith’s remark about “proteins” to mock her with a spot featuring incredulous Mississippians grilling burgers, dining out and shopping for groceries — and saying they’d rather “pick another senator instead” (along with other, more colorful language). The video has since racked up nearly 19 million views on Colom’s X account.She done lost her damn mind. pic.twitter.com/wHPt4PSAob— Scott Colom (@scott_colom) October 13, 2026 When the ad took off, national Democrats sprang into action. The Senate Majority PAC poured $2.2 million into the race; Senate Democrats’ campaign arm contributed another $500,000. Former President Barack Obama filmed an endorsement ad. Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Kamala Harris and Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Raphael Warnock of Georgia rushed to Mississippi to rally with Colom. In response, Republicans were forced to play defense, sending Trump to Mississippi in the final days of the campaign (along with cash infusions of their own).In the end, it wasn’t enough to get Hyde-Smith over the line. When Trump came to Mississippi, Colom attended his event to talk to rally-goers about health care, grocery bills and gas prices. “I got the best message ever for Republican voters in Mississippi,” he told CNN afterward. “I’m going to get you what you were promised in 2024. You were promised lower grocery prices on Day One. That’s what I will fight for. You were promised no more endless wars. That’s what I will fight for. You were promised the full and transparent release of the Epstein files. That’s what I will fight for.” This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/mississippi-senate-results-scott-colom-narrowly-defeats-cindy-hyde-smith-flipping-another-seat-for-democrats-in-midterm-elections-232119638.html

By Steve Gorman Nov 11 (Reuters) – Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world’s fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world’s biggest artificial reef. The finale to a ‌yearlong process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a livestream with aerial views of ‌the once-grand vessel’s rusted hulk, stripped of its two smokestacks, quietly, slowly settling into calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before succumbing to the deep. The ship, measuring nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) from stem to stern, was ​surrounded by onlookers and safety crews aboard dozens of tugboats and recreational vessels that accompanied the ocean liner as it was towed out to sea for its final voyage. By then, work crews had spent months removing all environmentally unsafe materials from the ship, including residual fuel, wiring, glass, ductwork and other non-metal items, as well as any objects that could pose entanglement hazards for scuba divers. The crews then cut holes strategically throughout the ship’s hull and its decks to ensure that it would sink in a gradual, level and uniform manner, according to a fact sheet ‌posted online by project organizers. No explosives were used. Passageways were ⁠also cut through the 12 decks of the interior to allow for marine life to thrive in and around the ship on the sea floor. If all goes as planned, the aging 20th-century vessel will come to rest upright on the gulf floor at a depth of 180 ⁠feet off the coast of Destin, Florida, a resort town and recreational fishing haven known for its white sand beaches and emerald green waters. The upper deck is expected to end up about 50 feet beneath the surface, organizers said. SINKING STARTS SLOWLY The sinking process began at about 1 p.m. CST but was so imperceptibly slow that the majority of the ocean liner’s hull remained well above the surface ​as ​the sun set on the idle ship, surrounded by blinking lights of nearby vessels. After hours, during which ​the waterline was seen creeping up the ship’s hull inches at a ‌time, the sinking accelerated as the sea poured through the holes cut into the lower decks and flooded the interior. In the final moments, livestream footage showed the ship abruptly listing to its port side before gently rolling into the sea and disappearing. Warren Jones, a spokesperson for organizers, who watched the sinking from an observation boat, said the SS United States would probably take 30 to 60 minutes to reach the seabed once the interior compartments were all completely filled with water. The SS United States, a wonder of post-World War Two oceanic luxury and engineering that carried the rich and famous across the Atlantic at speeds still unmatched, was retired from service in 1969 amid the rising popularity of commercial air travel. The ‌vessel sat moored for nearly 30 years in Philadelphia, seemingly destined to be sold for scrap, before ​authorities in Okaloosa County, in Florida’s panhandle, stepped in to purchase the ship as part of a $13 million ​project. “We worked year after year to keep that ship from going to the ​scrap yard,” said Jones, a boyhood passenger of the ship and representative of the SS United States Conservancy, a group that sold the ship ‌to Okaloosa County. After obtaining permission from the US Coast Guard and other ​agencies, the county had the vessel towed to ​a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, where it was prepared for disposal at sea. The SS United States will be in good company, joining a collection of more than 500 smaller underwater sites created from the remains of various sunken ships and concrete structures to create a divers’ haven known as the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Artificial Reefs. Speaking ​with Reuters by phone on Wednesday night, Jones said some wreck ‌divers were already gearing up to explore the sunken remnants of the ocean liner as early as Thursday morning. Jones, recounting vivid memories of riding the ship ​as an 8-year-old passenger with his family in 1961, said he was “comforted seeing it settle on the floor of the gulf and being embraced by ​the sea.” (Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Stephen Coates and Tom Hogue) This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/famed-ship-heads-afterlife-artificial-003800609.html