New: The Commerce Dept investigation into Megaspeed, the firm led by the Chinese spy who had a relationship with Jensen Huang, was suddenly suspended last year after an interaction between Nvidia and a top Commerce Department official. https://t.co/w2IthWI4mE
NEW: Nat Sec Adviser Marco Rubio oversaw drafting of a highly classified memo this spring that the intel community assessed a woman who had established a close relationship w Jensen Huang was working for China's Ministry of State Security https://t.co/7rm2LUJB1x
FLIP: Democratic challenger @LaKeshaWomack has defeated former NC House Speaker @RepTimMooreNC, who drew his own district in NC-14. Absolutely stunning upset.
With 98% of precincts reporting, Roy Cooper's victory looks like it will be the biggest U.S. Senate victory in NC since Richard Morgan's election in 1974--52 years ago.
#ncpol#ncsen
BREAKING: In a stunning upset with repercussions across the national legal landscape, Democrat Nathan Johnson claimed victory in the race to be Texas’ next top lawyer. https://t.co/9cDC29FwRb
In non-election news, a federal judge finds the @USNavy erred in blocking the drone-boat company @saildrone from undertaking a sea trial for a potentially lucrative contract. An interesting chapter in @SecWar's efforts to streamline defense procurement https://t.co/LXAnWj83AL
NEWS: Trump erupted after he learned Alina Habba signed a $50 million deal. He told allies she should donate a portion of that money to his future presidential library or another Trump entity. He also suggested the family should not pay out her contract.
https://t.co/ZqWBJcKR8q
NEW: @SecKennedy said a potent opioid in kratom "put American lives at risk" & announced a ban.
Soon it came out in court that the substance was in kratom used by people who died.
Next came an advocacy push that led to HHS reversing the ban.
🎁https://t.co/yDHiCDQLqZ
JUST POSTED: The U.S. Called It Putin’s ‘Slush Fund.’
Now Trump May Drop Sanctions on It.
The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow as President Trump pursues economic incentives he hopes will secure an end to war in Ukraine.
A NYT exclusive by Anton Troianovski
https://t.co/IACUjgSgTd
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
https://t.co/rO3P7aJa8h
After @JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita donated $$$ they were paid to advise the pro-Russian government of Republika Srpska to the Trump presidential library, Trump said he is no longer concerned about whether their work represented a conflict of interest. https://t.co/x0S6pApgci