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Hi again, This is America readers, it's Phillip M. Bailey, chief political correspondent with USA TODAY.
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The weeklong saga has rocked one of the tech industry's computer chip-making juggernauts and toppled Huang, a face of the AI boom.
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But this story is catching national attention for other reasons given the 63-year-old electrical engineer's close ties to President Donald Trump. Huang lobbied the White House directly to reverse export rules that blocked Nvidia from doing business with foreign countries, for example.
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As USA TODAY's Greta Reich reports, this is quickly evolving into a national security concern given Nvidia's customers include behemoth corporations such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI, Meta and Google parent Alphabet.
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"An extramarital affair would be bad enough, but it is an extramarital affair with one of Nvidia's major customers, which poses a huge conflict of interest, and not only that, she's apparently a Chinese intelligence asset, which poses massive national security risk," said Ryan Fedasiuk, a senior fellow for superintelligence at the Foundation for American Innovation.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks on stage during the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin on Oct. 19, 2026.
Lisi Niesner, REUTERS
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Trump says Apple's Tim Cook should takeover as Nvidia CEO: The president proposed the idea Nov. 12, his first public statement on the controversial departure.
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Congress wants answers after Trump ally Huang caught in alleged spying scandal: Lawmakers are demanding classified briefings and pushing for investigations into a scandal that could have significant national security implication.
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Hazing is illegal: Why does it keep happening?
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There's a viral video showing two college students being set on fire at Ohio State University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, which has launched an investigation.
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The fraternity's national leader says that sort of behavior that violates these standards has no place in our organization. But this is just the latest incident involving a tale as old as time when it comes to Greek-lettered organizations, which are often associated with hazing practices for incoming members.
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"You can’t pass any more laws, rules or regulations because they are all on the books and yet the problem continues and in some ways is worse today than ever," Bianchi said.
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Scott Colom’s election to the Senate recalls the angst Nina Simone wrote and sang about in one of the defining anthems of the Civil Rights Movement.
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As companies receive billions of dollars in tariff refunds, Democrats are asking the FTC to investigate whether they should share them with consumers.
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Oklahoma executed James Dwight Pavatt for the 2001 murder of his lover's estranged husband. Texas executed John Allen Rubio for the 2003 beheadings of his common-law wife's three children.
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and his advisers were scolded by a U.S. Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for not being respectful.
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Chris Van Hollen is challenging Chuck Schumer to lead Senate Democrats after their midterm victories.
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