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🇺🇸⚡️ — BREAKING: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has resigned with immediate effect after 33 years leading the company he co-founded. CFO Colette Kress has been appointed interim CEO, Harvey C. Jones named board chair, and the company has begun searching for a permanent successor.
🇳🇴🇷🇺⚡️ — Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) says the threat of Russian sabotage has increased and that there is good reason to expect Russian intelligence to carry out sabotage operations in the country over the coming year, NRK reports. PST counter-terrorism director Inger Haugland said Russian intelligence-linked actors have mapped infrastructure and potential targets in Norway. No attempted sabotage operations have been uncovered so far.
🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — A car bomb attack took place in the Russian city of St. Petersburg earlier today, killing one person. According to Russian and Ukrainian sources, the victim was a colonel of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump has privately questioned the June memorandum of understanding with Iran negotiated by VP Vance, arguing that it gave Iran time to regroup and generate oil revenues before the U.S. imposed its naval blockade, WSJ reports.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Vice President JD Vance is emerging as Washington’s lead negotiator with Iran, with President Trump authorizing him to resume talks aimed at ending the war, according to WSJ. Discussions about a direct meeting with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee remain preliminary. Vance sent a letter to Rezaee in October requesting a meeting. No date has been set, and both sides are currently communicating through mediators and regional allies.
🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social: If the Democrats want to “root out corruption,” they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth. Big time money is being stolen each and every hour of the day!
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social: I have asked Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. We don’t need a deal with Iran. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!
🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — The Houthis (Ansarallah) released footage showing attacks against the Saudi-backed PLC forces east of the Madjal district in the Marib governorate.
🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social: In any event, THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite! Fight hard, Republicans, or you won’t have a Country left!
🇲🇩⚡️ — Remnants of a drone were found in a vineyard on the outskirts of Antonesti village in Moldova's Stefan Voda district, approximately 20–25 km from the Ukrainian border. Police were alerted by a local resident. Forensic specialists have been dispatched to examine the wreckage and determine the drone's type and origin.
🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Ukrainian President Zelensky: Unfortunately, for several days now, our units have been recording significant disruptions in the operation of Starshield over Ukrainian territory, along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, Starshield is subject to systematic speed restrictions of 161 kilometers per hour. The Ukrainian military has already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but a systematic speed limitation.
🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived at the Kremlin for Ukraine peace talks with President Vladimir Putin.
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran’s IRGC Navy announced that two oil tankers carrying a combined total of more than 4 million barrels of oil “were stopped by massive explosions” and caught fire last night while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz via an “unauthorized southern route.” The IRGC said both vessels ignored repeated warnings that the route was unsafe and also accused them of cooperating with the U.S. military.
🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — The Israeli military says it targeted the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade and other members of the group in a strike on the Nasser Hospital complex in southern Gaza overnight. Gaza authorities say six people were killed and at least 20 wounded. The IDF and Shin Bet said the targets were “hiding” at the hospital and that the results of the strike remain under review.
🇮🇱⚡️ — Israeli Defense Minister Katz: We do not need the opposition’s approval to instruct the IDF to act.
🇺🇸⚡️ — Senator John Kennedy: A smart man washes his hands after he urinates. A wise man doesn’t urinate on his hands.
🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — Alice Huang, the woman accused of being a Chinese spy in the scandal involving NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, is in Beijing with the knowledge of Chinese security officials, Bloomberg reports. Her whereabouts had been unclear since Jensen Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair and NVIDIA’s board launched an investigation into espionage allegations.
🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow, Russia, for peace talks with Vladimir Putin.
List of countries that border Iran via land: 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan List of countries Iran does not border via land but exports to via Caspian Sea: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A U.S. official tells NYT that Task Force Iron Gate will not be conducting military operations against Iran. Task Force Iron Gate is responsible for pressuring states bordering Iran to shut down trade, both illicit and legitimate, using their own militaries.