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House Republicans will vote on Tuesday on whether to overhaul their leadership. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and current Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., are competing for minority leader, after Speaker Mike Johnson opted against running for minority leadership (he might not even serve his full term next Congress). House Republicans ...

The Scoop President Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Azerbaijan has played a leading role in his administration’s headline-grabbing alignment with a pro-Russian government in the Balkans, more than half a dozen people familiar with his involvement told Semafor. Senators had eyed a hearing as soon as Tuesday on ...

Andy’s view Nobody outside the Oval Office has been more influential on US policy toward chip sales to China — and, by extension, the superpower race for AI supremacy — than Jensen Huang. The Nvidia CEO had Donald Trump’s ear. And he used his privileged access to make the case ...

The News Fresh off what one senator called a “good old-fashioned shellacking,” Republicans are now turning to a more painful phase of their post-election soul-searching: the airing of grievances. Several senators are unhappy about a rush to reelect the GOP’s Senate leadership team after voters repudiated the party’s reign in ...

Watch Live at 7 a.m. ET on December 7 Kenya pioneered mobile money, establishing a model for financial inclusion across Africa and beyond. With one of the highest rates of financial account ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa, the country now faces a new challenge: moving beyond access to drive meaningful economic ...

Growth in Chinese auto exports could slow to 10% next year, new data showed Monday, as the country’s carmakers feel the effects of rising protectionism in overseas markets. The EU, Brazil, and Thailand are instituting higher trade barriers to combat what the head of China’s Passenger Car Association described as ...

Russia’s state-owned oil group began rationing supplies at gas stations across the country after Ukraine resumed its strikes against energy targets. A Russian official said Monday that Ukraine had struck the country’s second-largest refinery, the eighth such facility hit in the last two weeks, as Kyiv intensifies its campaign against ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s admission of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy will empower Washington’s hawks, who have been sidelined by a White House that’s shown willingness to make deals with Beijing. US President Donald Trump has defended Huang, who has successfully lobbied to remove some export controls on ...

A top American astrophysicist left the US for the Netherlands, in the latest sign of a brain drain under US President Donald Trump. The White House’s university funding cuts and crackdown on immigration have pushed several academics to leave the country; dozens of scientists have decamped to China, while Washington’s ...

The News Nvidia and its embattled CEO can add Washington to their list of huge problems. Members of Congress in both parties are pushing for strengthened export controls and investigations of company chief Jensen Huang after he admitted an affair with a woman accused by US intelligence of spying for ...