day two hundred forty eight (13. 969)

After days of counting ballots, the Democratic challenger Scott Colom is declared the winner of a Mississippi senate seat, the first time the office has been held by a Black individual since the Reconstruction Era following the US civil war. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns following revelations of a second affair with a subordinate with stocks of the chipmaker in free-fall. Kyiv reports more disruptions to military Starlink as envoys Kushner and Witkoff meet Putin in Moscow. Trump seemingly removes JD Vance from addressing foreign policy after floating the possibility of direct peace talks and tells the vice president to focus on domestic matters. The Revolutionary Guard threatens severe reprisals for any US hostilities. IDF targets hospital complexes in Gaza, claiming Hamas are using them as human shields as Israel’s caretaker government says it is free to carry out strikes anywhere and does not need to seek the approval of the opposition. Houthis bombard Saudi refineries and pipelines.