Nvidia board investigates Jensen Huang over link to suspected Chinese spy
The chip giant’s directors say they have no reason to believe secrets were compromised, as Huang tells staff he was unfaithful to his wife and is ‘deeply sorry’
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Zohran Mamdani wishes New York a happy Diwali with a film of diyas
The city’s first Muslim mayor marked the festival with a wordless two-minute short of New Yorkers building a rangoli and lighting clay lamps, ending on a single line: ‘Happy Diwali, New York!’
Araghchi tells Washington to take Iran’s two-day offer or face war
Iran’s foreign minister says the US midterm result leaves the White House with a choice: meet Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, or see its forces ‘rain down hell’
Eisenkot gets the mandate to form Israel’s next government
The Yashar leader has 28 days to turn the backing of 67 lawmakers into a coalition that can replace Benjamin Netanyahu, and warned that anyone who blocks it will be remembered for failing Israel
Trump says America ‘took a giant step back’ with midterm results
The president blamed the Democrats’ sweep for a one-day, $3 trillion stock market loss and promised Republicans would be back ‘bigger and stronger than ever before’
Mars may still be volcanically alive, European orbiter finds
Hydrogen chloride rising from fresh cracks on the flanks of the Alba Mons volcano suggests magma may still be stirring beneath the planet’s surface, scientists say
NASA picks eight firms for up to $10bn in moon lander deals
Eight companies, from SpaceX to Blue Origin, will compete to fly cargo to the Moon, and a nuclear-powered rover built from Mars rover spares is headed for the lunar south pole in 2028
Netanyahu’s call for unity is ‘political panic’, Yair Golan says
The Democrats leader says the prime minister cannot be part of “fixing Israel” and accuses him of nurturing Hamas rule, hours after Herzog chose Eisenkot to form the next government
Herzog to hand Eisenkot the mandate to form Israel’s next government
The Yashar leader will be formally tasked at 5pm on Sunday and will then have 28 days to build a coalition, as Netanyahu calls for a unity government instead
Trump offers UFC boss Dana White the job of White House press secretary
The president wants White to bring Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev and four other fighters as his assistants, “even though some are not from our Country”
