Edition of 2026-11-13
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- Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will challenge Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York for majority leader.
- The challenge follows the Democrats' midterm election sweep.
- Van Hollen said voters called for change from the status quo.
- According to The Hill, Van Hollen called for new leadership in the Senate in a post on X.
- According to The New York Times, Schumer has said he has the votes to win the leadership role.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth awarded a Joint Service Commendation Medal on Thursday to an Army specialist, identified by BBC News as Thomas Iglesias.
- The soldier reprimanded Hegseth and members of his group, who were heard laughing and talking near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery during a Veterans Day visit.
- Hegseth wrote in a social media post, 'We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist,' according to The Guardian.
- CBS News reported that the soldier was summoned to the Pentagon on Thursday.
- Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, according to CBS News and The Hill.
- Colom will be Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator in more than a century.
- Reports differ on when Mississippi last seated a Black senator, with 1874 and 1881 both cited.
- According to the BBC, Trump won Mississippi by 22 points two years ago.
- President Trump said Thursday that he gave Colom credit for his efforts to win over Republican voters, saying, "I don't know the gentleman, but I give him credit."
- A three-story building on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn collapsed on Wednesday.
- According to The Guardian, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said crews were working in "extremely dangerous conditions" to find anyone trapped.
- The Fire Department said the search for victims was over, and city investigators are looking into an excavation at a neighboring site.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, effective immediately.
- Huang said he had an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese agent.
- According to The Hill, new reporting cites a second affair, this time with an Nvidia colleague.
- According to CBS News, Nvidia's stock declined sharply this week.
- According to BBC News, Huang has been summoned to testify before Congress.
- Democratic state Senator Cindy Holscher won Kansas's governor's race.
- She defeated Republican Ty Masterson, who had Trump's endorsement.
- The result keeps the governor's office in Democratic hands.
- A gunman opened fire on Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., and one person was killed and four were injured.
- According to CBS News, police said the suspected gunman was a 55-year-old doctor.
- Authorities said the gunman died by suicide after the shooting.
- According to The New York Times, officials said the gunman was disgruntled about repair work in his condo and fatally shot the building manager.
- President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the US is no longer seeking a deal to end the war with Iran.
- Trump wrote, "We don't need a deal with Iran."
- Trump directed Vice President JD Vance, who had led recent efforts to restart negotiations with Iran, to focus on domestic issues.
- Trump said Vance should focus on what he called corruption and crime in Democrat-run cities and states.
- According to CBS News, Trump said the war with Iran has been won, while Tehran is sticking to its demands and continuing to attack ships.
- Kalshi has ended the paid advisory role of Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son.
- The move followed a decision by Trump Jr.'s investment firm, 1789 Capital, to increase its investment in Polymarket, Kalshi's main competitor.
- Kalshi described the end of the role as a mutual business decision.
- According to The Guardian, Democrats said they plan to investigate the Trump family's investments.
- President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on Mexico if it does not stop migrant caravans moving toward the U.S. southern border.
- According to Fox News, Trump threatened to immediately double tariffs on Mexico.
- According to The Washington Times, Trump issued the warning on Thursday.
- According to The Washington Times, Trump described the caravans as "huge."
- Trump directed the warning at Mexico, which he asked to shut down the caravans.
- Senate Democrats have opened an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied during his 2025 confirmation hearing.
- The inquiry concerns Kennedy's statements about a 2019 trip to Samoa.
- According to the Guardian, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the incoming chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is leading the investigation.
- According to the Guardian, Wyden is seeking extensive records from Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit group.
- The Guardian reports that it published evidence that Kennedy 'unlawfully lied' to Congress, which it cited in launching the inquiry.
- The SS United States is being sunk off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef.
- According to NPR, the ship is bigger than the Titanic.
- NPR reports that the sinking is taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.
- According to Al Jazeera English, the ship had been inactive for years.
- According to Al Jazeera English, various owners attempted to save and restore the ship.
- Sales of existing homes fell 8.8% in October from a year earlier, to their lowest level in 16 years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
- According to the Guardian, sales of already built homes dropped to 3.75 million in October.
- According to the Guardian, the median existing-home sales price rose slightly to $416,700.
- The Guardian attributed the decline to mortgage rates and rising inflation driving buyers away.
- Trump said in a social media post that he asked Vice President JD Vance to focus his complete and total attention on domestic corruption.
- According to Fox News, Vance will target alleged corruption in Minnesota, California and Illinois.
- Trump said billions of dollars are stolen each month from government programs, according to Fox News.
- Reports differ on the scope of the assignment, with one describing it as corruption and crime in Democratic-led cities and states.
- A lawyer for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday that his divorce from his wife, Angela Paxton, has been finalized.
- According to The New York Times, Angela Paxton filed for divorce last year, citing adultery and "biblical grounds."
- According to The Washington Times, the divorce ends the couple's marriage.
- A widespread outage has hit Microsoft services, including the Outlook email platform.
- Microsoft said its servers went offline unexpectedly.
- Many users reported trouble accessing their email accounts, according to NPR.
- According to Al Jazeera English, police in Washington are investigating a shooting about a mile from the White House.
- According to Al Jazeera English, the shooting left one person dead.
- According to The Guardian, police have identified both the victim and the suspect.
- According to a federal law enforcement official who spoke to NBC News, as reported by The Guardian, the suspect fired at law enforcement about 90 minutes earlier, and no one was struck.
- The same official said the incident has shifted to a barricaded subject response, and no other individual is believed to be at the scene, so it is not considered a hostage situation.
- Congressional Republicans and committee chairs are seeking to question Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
- According to CBS News, Republicans are negotiating for Huang to appear before Congress.
- According to CBS News, Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive.
- According to CBS News, Republicans have also pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify over Nvidia.
- According to the Washington Times, Huang faces a series of congressional probes over an alleged link to a Chinese spy.
- A shooting in Northwest Washington on Thursday morning left one person dead and four people injured, local police said.
- Police identified the suspect as Matt Wade Lambert, 55, at a Thursday afternoon press conference.
- Police said Lambert died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- According to authorities cited by the New York Post, the gunman fired from a private patio on a seventh-floor penthouse at people below.
- According to the Federal Register, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a final rule revising its Section 214 regulations.
- The rule requires verification of U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status for all applicants and recipients of assistance under covered programs, regardless of age.
- Under the rule, prorated assistance becomes a temporary condition pending verification of eligible status for all family members, where permitted by statute.
- The Federal Register says HUD's current regulations allow prorated assistance to continue indefinitely.
- According to the Federal Register, a presidential document titled "Establishment of the Oval Office National Monument" has been published.
- The document comes from the Executive Office of the President.
- Only one article was available, and its summary includes no further details on the monument's scope or effective date.
- According to the White House, nominations were sent to the Senate for federal financial regulatory posts.
- The White House nominated Nathan Anonick of Virginia as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
- Anonick's nomination would fill the seat held by Rostin Behnam, whose term has expired.
- The White House also nominated Kristin N. Johnson of Michigan as a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.