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U.S. Cleared Nvidia Chips to Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Troubling Ties

The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia’s H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.

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An industrial park for high-tech companies in Beijing. The company New Matrix lists the building as its address, but a company directory does not include the firm.

China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang

A memo that circulated among U.S. policymakers cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, was an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.

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Jensen Huang, an influential ally of President Trump’s, is a pivotal figure in the intense global competition for A.I. supremacy.

Guarded Optimism, and Some Jokes, in Ukraine Over Trump’s Midterm Wipeout

Victory for Democrats could alter the course of peace negotiations and a war nearing its fifth year.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.

Europe Still Sees Trump As Powerful, Especially in Foreign Policy

The commanding victory of the Democrats has brought private relief to some Europeans but no official glee, with Ukraine, Iran and NATO all hanging in the balance.

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President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, in July. He has questioned the utility of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

A Trump-Putin-Xi Summit? That Might Be Awkward for One of Them.

A summit could bolster Xi Jinping’s stature. But talks about Ukraine’s future and limits on nuclear weapons pose uncomfortable choices for China.

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The Chinese leader Xi Jinping with President Donald Trump at the National Archives Museum in Washington in September.

Trump Says He Met With a Senior Russian Official on a Ukraine Peace Deal

President Trump said the deal “might involve all of Europe.” He indicated he had met with a Kremlin envoy whom Melania Trump hosted at the White House on Thursday.

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Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy to the Russian president, during an event with Melania Trump, the first lady, at the White House on Thursday.

Rubio Dismisses Reports He Will Leave His Jobs to Run for President

President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser said he intended to stick with the administration to the end.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that he would support Vice President JD Vance if he ran for president.

U.S. Finds Subdued Foreign Meddling Operations in Midterm Elections

Russia was linked to influence campaigns targeting Democrats that gained little traction, but the Kremlin may be more focused on France’s elections in the spring.

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Red Square in Moscow in September. Current and former U.S. officials said they were unsure why Russia and Iran both appeared to engage in less meddling than in years past, including the 2024 election.

How Did Flávio Bolsonaro Flee Brazil? ‘I’ll Take That to the Grave,’ He Says

From Miami, Flávio Bolsonaro is making unfounded claims of a stolen election and plotting to sway his nation’s politics from afar, even though his party is not challenging the results.

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Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing Brazilian senator who lost last month’s presidential election, in Aventura, Fla., on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil.

Iran is Reviewing ‘Concrete Proposals’ on Nuclear Program, Officials Say

Iran’s willingness to re-engage on the issue suggests that Qatar-led diplomatic efforts to avert full-blown war between the U.S. and Iran have had some success.

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Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said this week that Iran would not hold talks on its nuclear program until the U.S. accepts the country’s demands. Privately, however, he has shown more openness to discussing the issue, officials say.

How Melania Trump Became a Dark-Horse Diplomat on Ukraine

Both Moscow and Kyiv say Mrs. Trump’s team was the driving force behind an evacuation of a besieged city. It was also in their interest to deliver her a humanitarian win.

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Melania Trump receiving a humanitarian award from Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian human rights ombudsman, at the White House on Thursday.

Midterm Election Losses Complicate Trump’s Options on Iran War

The midterm results laid bare the deep unpopularity of the war of choice that President Trump started and is now struggling to end.

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An American B-1 bomber taking off from an air base in the United Kingdom earlier this year.

Vance, in Break With Trump, Blames Iran War for Republicans’ 2026 Midterm Losses

The vice president offered his striking critique of the administration’s agenda and messaging with Mr. Trump’s apparent approval.

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“The reason we lost is the war,” Vice President JD Vance wrote in a social media post, adding, “If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so.”

U.S. Assisted Venezuela in Deadly Drone Strike, Officials Say

The attack on a drug-trafficking group killed about two dozen people, a rights group said. It comes as the United States is militarizing the fight against “narcoterrorism” in Latin America.

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The National Liberation Army, or ELN, in Arauca, Colombia. The rebel army is active in Colombia and Venezuela.

More Iranians Call for Nuclear Weapons After War With U.S.

Some Iranian clerics and officials argue the country must rebuild deterrence by dropping its longstanding pledge not to build a nuclear bomb.

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Portraits of former Iranian supreme leaders and the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran this month.

Trump Pushes Venezuela for Agreement Allowing U.S. Troops to Stay

The two countries have long been adversaries, and the United States attacked Venezuela this year, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio is starting talks on a legal agreement.

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Caracas, Venezuela, earlier this year. Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline and land borders with Colombia, Brazil and Guyana make it an attractive location for potential U.S. troop deployments.
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