Evening Wire: Nvidia CEO Resigns Amid Spy Scandal & DC Killing Spree Erupts Over HOA Dispute | 11.12.26

A gunman began shooting around 8 a.m. in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood, about a mile from the White House. Police say he shot someone at a gym, killed four additional people, and then barricaded himself in a seventh-floor apartment, where he shot himself while speaking with police negotiators. Six people died, and at least one other gym victim remained in critical condition. Mayor Muriel Bowser thanked police, fire, and EMS personnel and said the lone gunman had been contained.

A three-story apartment building near Bedford and Flatbush in Brooklyn unexpectedly collapsed after an entire side fell into a hole dug by a construction crew next door. Hundreds of emergency workers searched the rubble Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at least eight people, including two children, had died and at least 18 were injured, but officials did not know how many occupants had been inside. He praised construction workers who survived the collapse but returned to dig victims out.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang reportedly resigned after fallout from an affair with an alleged Chinese spy; a separate affair with the company’s vice president of healthcare was also reported. Huang had led NVIDIA’s rise to an estimated $4 trillion valuation by producing advanced AI chips. Executive vice president and CFO Colette Kress will serve as CEO until a replacement is selected. The report said NVIDIA’s scandal-related leadership change followed its rapid ascent to the top of the technology and stock markets.

California Democrat Ro Khanna faced scrutiny because a congressional stock-trade tracker flagged his sale of a large portion of his NVIDIA holdings only hours before the CEO scandal became public. NVIDIA subsequently lost nearly half a trillion dollars in market value. Khanna said neither he nor his family directly made the trades, claiming his in-laws manage the investments through an independent trust. Those family trusts recorded more than 5,400 trades last year for Khanna’s reported $165.4 million portfolio.

A caravan of roughly 2,000 migrants reached southern Mexico while heading north toward the United States. One Nicaraguan migrant said the group believed Democrats would not want to lose the Latino vote after their recent midterm victories. Border czar Tom Homan rejected that expectation, saying the migrants would not be released into the country. He said authorities would either turn them around or prosecute them, as the Trump administration maintained its hardline border policy.

President Trump pulled Vice President JD Vance out of efforts to negotiate an end to the war with Iran and redirected him to investigate alleged fraud in Democratic-run cities and states. Trump said, “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” despite the continuing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. Vance had recently contacted Iranian officials through Qatari intermediaries to propose renewed peace talks, but the administration now says his focus will shift to domestic investigations.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and staffers were reportedly laughing and talking after an event and photo opportunity at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Army Specialist Thomas Iglesias, the sentinel on duty, intervened and ordered that all visitors maintain silence and respect. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Iglesias acted correctly and respectfully. Hegseth endorsed the reprimand on X, writing, “We love soldiers, we love standards. Well done, Specialist. Carry on, Patriots.”

With 86% of Alaska’s Senate vote reported, Democrat Mary Peltola led Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan by just under 4,000 votes. Peltola asked Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews to require a report explaining why certain mail ballots had been rejected, but Matthews called the request unreasonable during the peak election period and denied it. Because both candidates may remain below 50%, Alaska’s ranked-choice system could transfer third-party ballots according to voters’ second choices after the final count.

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings asked a federal court to dismiss Hassan Piker’s $72.5 million defamation lawsuit. Piker sued over Jennings’s claim that Piker called for Black voters to be lynched, based on a video circulated by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Piker says the clip removed context showing he was sarcastically quoting someone else. Jennings’s attorney argues the clip accurately captured Piker’s words, that interpreting their meaning is not defamation, and that public figure Piker cannot show actual malice.

During an interview for a documentary, Greta Thunberg appeared surprised to learn that the Fridays for Future movement she founded in 2018 was still protesting in Berlin. She asked, “Is it—” then laughed and said, “Really, they still do that?” before laughing with a friend and calling, “Cut.” Thunberg, now focused heavily on Gaza activism and a so-called aid flotilla, drew online criticism, including a post claiming climate activism was merely a warm-up for opposing Israel.