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Nov 8, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump was brutally mocked Sunday after he revealed what some analysts saw as a sign that he's "collapsing on every front."During an interview with CNN, Trump said it was "highly unlikely" that his administration would launch further strikes against the Iranian regime as long as negotiations about the country's nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz continue to progress. Trump's comments marked a departure from his repeated threats to wipe out the Iranian civilization because of the regime's reluctance to negotiate. The president's comments sparked a wave of mockery on social media. Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo, wrote in a post on X that Trump's comments were quite revealing. "Just collapsing on every front now," Marshall posted. Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall noted that Trump appeared to be trying to reinstate the conditions that existed before the war began. "You mean like we had before?" Marshall posted on X. Maryam Jamshidi, a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute, remarked that Trump's comments didn't reflect the reality on the ground in the Middle East. "The longer this goes, the more likely it is, in my view, that there will be no significant strikes," Jamshidi posted on X. "That being said, the U.S. is still carrying out limited strikes, its blockade is in place, and now it’s claiming to expand it to land routes - so the war is ongoing [and] still illegal."

Nov 8, 2026 - World

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Trump administration officials about one of their biggest corporate allies' ties to an alleged spy this spring, and was met with silence, according to a new report. The New York Times reported Sunday that Rubio told Trump administration officials about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's ties to an alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, about a year ago, citing "multiple people briefed on the matter." The report was published the same day as Nvidia's board of directors had opened an independent investigation into Huang's ties to the alleged spy. Jensen and Alice Huang are not related. However, Rubio's warnings seemed to fall on deaf ears inside the administration, the New York Times reported. For instance, it said President Donald Trump waved off concerns about Huang because he views the company as central to America's competitive advantage over China in artificial intelligence and a key player in the recent stock market rally. The report also raises questions about some of the policies Huang, whom the report describes as "a pivotal figure in the explosive growth of A.I., remained an influential voice with Mr. Trump over policy on the issue," has lobbied for. "Mr. Huang has opposed calls for more tightly regulating the export of the most advanced A.I. chips and has pushed to be able to sell all but the most recently developed technology to China, the main competitor to the United States in the global rush for A.I. supremacy," according to the report.

Nov 8, 2026 - World

President orders prompt investigation after one train derails in collision in al-Ayyat about 50km from CairoSeven people were killed and at least 125 injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials said.The crash occurred in al-Ayyat district in Giza province, about 50km (30 miles) south of Cairo, when a train travelling to Fayoum province crashed into the rear of a train heading to the southern province of Aswan, according to the transport ministry. Continue reading...

Nov 8, 2026 - World

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking heat from parts of the right after he told a Mar-a-Lago crowd that President Donald Trump launched the Iran war “for you.” Some of Trump’s own supporters say the line may have sunk Rubio’s ambitions, and the party with them.Rubio spoke Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s “Gathering of Visionaries” at Trump’s Palm Beach club, days after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. Trump himself has acknowledged that the war’s unpopularity cost the party.“He did it for you. Not for him. Not for anybody else,” Rubio said of Trump’s decision to confront Iran, according to a clip shared by Fox News host Sean Hannity, who presented the moment approvingly.Conservative podcast host Kacee Allen summarized Rubio’s message: that “we all owe him deep gratitude because previous presidents ‘ignored’ the threat.”“Meanwhile the GOP just got wiped in the midterms due to this very” war, Allen wrote.Some on the right were blunter about it.“Rubio just destroyed his 2028 presidential hopes by essentially echoing Trump’s statement that the destruction of the GOP was worth it to fight the Iran War and these jokers applauded him,” wrote David Pyne, editor of The Real War newsletter and a former Army headquarters staff officer. “None of them care that they just handed the keys to controlling the US to the Democrat socialists for the next decade or two.”Pyne went further and called on Trump, Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “resign in disgrace or be impeached and removed from office.”“@MarcoRubio just killed any chance he had to win the presidency in 2028,” wrote Pat Dollard, a former Hollywood talent agent and Breitbart writer.Some of Trump’s own base saw a bigger reckoning. One X user, whose bio describes her as a “TradCatholic” nationalist who puts “God, Family, Country” first, said Trump had betrayed the voters who put him in office.“It’s over! We wanted Trump to burn the establishment, he burned down the conservative Repub party by showing who he really is,” she wrote. “It will take decades to come back, if we even have a country left.”Writer Sean Colarossi pointed to Rubio’s history with Trump. “It’s amazing how much @marcorubio has beclowned himself for a guy he once accurately called a con man,” he wrote. During the 2016 Republican primary, Rubio called Trump a “con artist.”Rubio has been widely discussed as a potential 2028 contender. On Friday he also flew to Florida with Trump on Marine One, alongside newly named chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Nov 8, 2026 - World

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is promising that Congress will dig into the Trump administration’s ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, after a New York Times report that a Chinese businesswoman close to Huang was an asset of Beijing’s top spy agency.“The more I learn about the insane relationship between the Trump Administration, Chinese spies, and AI billionaires, the more I’m convinced there is nothing this administration does that isn’t corrupt,” Coons wrote on social media on Saturday. “Congress will investigate and get answers.”Coons’ post drew nearly 300,000 views. His threat carries more weight after Democrats won control of the Senate on Tuesday, which will give them subpoena power and committee gavels in January.The Times reported that a memo circulated among top Trump administration policymakers last spring cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, was working for China’s Ministry of State Security. The two are not related.According to people briefed on the intelligence, Alice Huang was recruited to collect intelligence on the Nvidia chief. It was part of a drive by Beijing to learn more about American AI chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.The Times previously reported that Trump was briefed last year about Huang’s relationship with the woman “but chose not to do anything about it.”Jensen Huang is one of Trump’s most influential allies in the tech world. In 2025, he persuaded Trump to roll back a ban on AI chip sales to China, according to the Times. The two later struck a deal allowing Nvidia to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China, with the U.S. government taking a 25% cut of sales.Alice Huang’s company, Megaspeed, began a multibillion-dollar purchase of advanced AI chips in 2024. It has built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Chinese internet giant Alibaba, which the Times described as “a backdoor way” for China to access advanced Nvidia chips it can’t buy directly.Republicans are paying attention too. On Thursday, the GOP leaders of three House committees asked Jensen Huang to appear at a closed-door briefing later this month about his interactions with Alice Huang.Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo told the Times that the company does not share classified information with customers, and that Huang’s interactions with Alice Huang were “not unusual.” A spokesman for the Chinese embassy called the reporting “unsubstantiated” and “nothing but smears against China.” The White House and CIA declined to comment.Susan Rice, who served as national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, sounded the alarm, too. “This is insane. Huge national security threat. WTAF?” Rice wrote on social media, sharing a post from Chris McGuire, a former national security official, that recapped the reporting on the alleged spy operation.