Nvidia’s board opens an independent probe after CEO Jensen Huang admits an affair, reportedly with a suspected Chinese spy.
A committee of independent directors runs the investigation, with outside lawyers. The board says it has no reason to believe Nvidia secrets or U.S. national security were compromised, and Huang, 63, stays CEO during the review.
In a message to employees, Huang admitted he was “unfaithful” to his wife and took “full responsibility.” News reports identify her as Alice Huang, no relation, who is or was an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore data-center company that buys Nvidia’s advanced chips. U.S. intelligence assessed that she worked for China’s Ministry of State Security. China called the allegations “groundless speculation.”
The White HouseSecretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw a classified memo on the relationship that circulated among top officials in spring 2026, The New York Times reports. Trump was separately briefed and did not act. Axios dates that briefing to earlier this year, the Times’ Maggie Haberman to late 2025. On Sunday, Nov. 8, Trump said, “I haven’t heard that he’s done anything wrong,” and that he would “certainly take him” on next week’s Asia trip.
What the bylaws let the board do without Huang’s consent
- 6 of 10 directors
- can remove him as CEO, with or without cause.
- His 3.58%
- 870.6 million shares as of March 23, 2026, does not block that vote.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche won’t rule out prosecuting Democratic lawmakers; likely Oversight chair Robert Garcia adds Trump Jr. and Kushner to his probe list.
On CNN and Fox on Sunday, Nov. 8, Blanche said “there could be” investigations of Democratic lawmakers. He named no criminal law and confirmed no open probe. Garcia, likely chair of the House Oversight Committee from January, called it intimidation.
“I would be very worried if I was a member on that committee.”Blanche, to the incoming Oversight Committee
Blanche said DOJ will defend officials facing House probes, including Stephen Miller. So Garcia says that if officials ignore subpoenas, Democrats will skip DOJ and ask a civil court to order them to comply. He added Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner to a list that includes pardons, White House ballroom donors, the Iran war and Miller.
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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says he is a “hard yes” on Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Massie plans to reintroduce his eight articles as early as Monday, Nov. 9, which forces the House to take it up within two legislative days. House GOP leaders are bracing for enough Republican defections to pass it, Axios reports.
- 214 Democrats
- 3 Republicans would carry it with every Democrat, or two if the independent joins them
- 218 Republicans in all
- 1 independent who votes with Republicans
Republicans French Hill of Arkansas and Don Bacon of Nebraska are undecided. Hill told CBS that doing a poor job “doesn’t mean per se that he’s committed an impeachable offense.” Hegseth called Massie a “disgruntled, defeated congressman.” The House can still table the resolution or send it to committee without ever voting on the articles.
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Iran tells the U.S. to accept its offer to end the war or face escalation; Trump says new strikes are “highly unlikely” if talks progress.
Iran describes two days as the time it would need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz once the U.S. meets its conditions. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that “our 2-day proposal stands,” with no expiry date.
“American voters have made their choice. Time for the White House to make its own.”Araghchi, pointing to the Nov. 3 midterms
Trump told CNN that renewed attacks are “highly unlikely” if talks make progress on Iran’s nuclear program and on reopening the strait. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Iran’s demands so far unacceptable, and some of them “outrageous and ridiculous.”
The Senate planSenate Democrats, who won the majority on Nov. 3, say some Republicans will help them end the war once the new Congress is seated, using the power of the purse, a possible Hegseth impeachment and lawsuits. Neither report names the Republicans or says how many have committed.
A flight to deport 11 Iranians toward Iran via Pakistan is canceled; lawyers say ICE gave three of the five business days’ notice a judge ordered.
Lawyers told U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes that ICE planned to fly the 11 out of Mesa, Ariz., before dawn on Sunday, Nov. 8, bound for Pakistan and then Iran. The flight was canceled without explanation. Attorney Ali Rahnama told AP at least eight had already boarded.
The notice
- Oct. 15 order
- Five business days’ notice before any such removal.
- Tuesday, Nov. 3
- Notice given, says the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund. That left three business days.
Rahnama said a senior official from Iran’s Interests Section had visited the eight and said Iran would fly them from Pakistan to Iran. DHS told ABC it “does not comment on prospective removal operations.”
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Trump tells 60 Minutes his deportations were “too tough” on working immigrants whose only offense was illegal entry.
He said he’d “love to do something on immigration” with congressional Democrats and suggested long-term residents could stay. He named no policy, date or bill.
- 2,000 a day, the old target
- The rise to about 2,700 a day, or about 19,000 a week, per CBS News
ICE sources told CBS News the higher target was set before the midterms. DHS says ICE is “NOT backing away or slowing down,” and officials have had no orders to scale back since the election. Stephen Miller starts as White House chief of staff on Monday, Nov. 9. Asked about a pullback, a U.S. official said, “I would count on the opposite.”
The Justice Department considered naming The New York Times as a conspirator in its Comey classified-leak case, the Times reports.
Prosecutors charged former FBI Director James Comey in October, without a grand jury, with leaking national-defense information to the Times in 2016. The conspirator report rests on the Times alone; no other outlet has confirmed it.
The report does not say whether prosecutors weighed charging the Times or only naming it in a filing as an unindicted co-conspirator. Those are very different steps. Comey’s lawyers say the case is time-barred because the 10-year limit has run out.
The recordNo U.S. news organization was indicted or convicted for receiving or publishing national-defense secrets from 1917 through 2025, per the Congressional Research Service.
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Staff at the Commerce Department’s AI safety testing center now report informally to a White House office, AP reports.
AP did not name the office or say who now decides whether a finished report is released. The center, which tests AI models for national-security risks, has stopped publishing its research, AP says.
The center, per AP
- No leader since April
- A director was hired and fired within days; his replacement has since resigned.
- About $10 million a year
- Roughly one-eighth of what Britain spends on its counterpart.
All of these facts come from a single AP report.