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Democrat Scott Colom, 43, has defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a major upset in Mississippi, becoming the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from the heavily Republican state in more than four decades. Colom also becomes the first Black candidate elected to statewide office in Mississippi since Reconstruction.

NEW: NVIDIA's board is preparing to remove founder and CEO Jensen Huang following revelations of two extramarital affairs, including one involving a woman suspected by U.S. intelligence of being a Chinese spy, according to WSJ. The board could meet as early as today to discuss Huang's future at the company.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had an extramarital affair with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of healthcare, who reports directly to him, according to NYT, citing five people who previously worked at NVIDIA. The allegations emerge as NVIDIA's board investigates Huang's separate relationship with a Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence identified as a suspected Chinese spy.

WATCH: A U.S. Army guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's group after several people were heard laughing and talking near the memorial following Tuesday's Veterans Day ceremony. Interrupting his patrol, the guard shouted, “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!”

President Trump on Hegseth: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has done a fantastic job. He loves you. He protects you. He's all about you.

President Trump on JD Vance: The vice president is doing a fantastic job. We appreciate it very much.

The Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen announces intercepting two Houthi (Ansarallah) drones in the Mecca region and southern regions. Almost 3 hours ago, the coalition said air defenses intercepted three Houthi-launched cruise missiles aimed at the Riyadh area.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee: Israel is now threatening Türkiye as well, directing insults and threats against Erdogan, even though Türkiye is a major country. What prevented Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq from falling under Israeli occupation? It was the resistance front and Iran. The sacrifices made by Iran and the resistance front to preserve the Islamic countries of this region are unprecedented in history.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee: Our goal is to achieve security. We are facing an aggressive and criminal regime. Should we allow it to escape punishment and let the Americans leave without securing our rights? If that happens, what would prevent other countries from believing that attacking Iran carries no cost? We want to impose a cost on the Americans that makes aggression against Iran expensive and becomes a deterrent.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee: We are working on designing nuclear-powered ships and nuclear-powered submarines. We therefore need our enriched material. We may also want to produce small modular reactors, or SMRs, at some stage, and we will need these materials for that as well. Not even the smallest particle of enriched material will leave Iran. All of this material will remain under our control.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick during a White House Situation Room meeting over his failure to blacklist Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer accused of illegally diverting advanced American chips to China, according to Axios. “How come Megaspeed isn't on the entities list?” Bessent reportedly asked Lutnick, who responded, “I don't know. I'll look into it.” Sources said Lutnick had resisted efforts to sanction Megaspeed for nearly a year, out of concern that such measures could escalate trade tensions with China. Commerce Undersecretary Jeff Kessler had also received repeated warnings about the company but deferred the decision to Lutnick.

Iran's IRGC Navy says two additional tankers attempting to leave the Strait of Hormuz through an "unauthorized route" struck naval mines and suffered massive explosions overnight, leaving both vessels abandoned and engulfed in flames. The IRGC said the tankers were operating with air support from U.S. military fighter jets and had disabled their navigation and identification systems. The IRGC also claimed that attempts by U.S.-aligned personnel to extinguish the fires were unsuccessful and accused CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper of responsibility for the incident.

Turkish President Erdoğan: As humanity, our home has only one roof, and that is the sky. As humanity, our home has only one garden, and that is the Earth. I want to say this very clearly: We have no other sky, no other Earth, no other seas, oceans, or forests. Yet today, driven in part by the greed of excessive consumption, humanity is experiencing perhaps one of the deepest existential crises in its history.

Turkish President Erdoğan: Using the suffering of children in Gaza as a show of power — let me be very clear — is a sign of weakness and helplessness. Above all, it is unconscionable. Humanitarian aid must immediately be allowed into the region. This policy of isolation must end. This oppression, this cruelty must now come to an end, and it must be brought to an end.

Turkish President Erdoğan: In the past few days, we have once again received heartbreaking news from Gaza. When the infrastructure destroyed in Gaza was combined with heavy rainfall and flooding, tens of thousands of tents and shelters were submerged. Hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Gaza, who have no roof to take shelter under, particularly innocent children trembling from the cold, are struggling to survive in floodwaters under these winter conditions, often without their parents. I must state this openly: No one who sees, knows about, or witnesses such a shameful situation for humanity can escape responsibility.

Turkish President Erdoğan: Today, we are asking Israel for containers, but unfortunately, our Palestinian brothers and sisters in Gaza have been condemned to live in tents surrounded by mud. Are these people not human beings? Are these people not even worthy of a tent? We want to send containers, but we are not being allowed to.

OpenAI's adjusted operating losses climbed to $10.9 billion in the third quarter, up from $10.1 billion in the previous quarter, despite a roughly 50% increase in revenue to $10 billion, according to WSJ. OpenAI's adjusted operating margin improved from negative 150% to negative 109%, but losses remained substantial. The figures exclude $2.6 billion in stock-based compensation.

New White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller plans to rebuild President Trump's 2024 electoral coalition by winning back young, working-class and minority men who shifted toward Democrats in the recent midterm elections, according to Axios. His priorities include eliminating policies the administration considers “woke” from universities and workplaces, reducing prescription drug costs, combating government and healthcare fraud, shrinking the federal bureaucracy, and reforming permitting regulations. Miller also wants to give greater visibility to existing administration policies he believes appeal to working-class voters.

Microsoft and several other companies and industry groups are urging the Trump administration to abandon proposed restrictions on imports of a key Chinese-made component, optical transceivers, used in AI data centers, according to Reuters. Microsoft, which currently has 35 data centers under construction in the U.S. and another 134 planned, has warned that the proposed import restrictions could delay the expansion of American AI infrastructure.

Ukrainian President Zelensky says Ukraine will test the first European anti-ballistic system this winter.