U.S. NEWS

Brooklyn Building Collapse

A massive rescue operation is underway after a building collapsed in Brooklyn Wednesday, killing at least eight.

The three-story building—four apartments over ground-floor commercial space—collapsed around 4 p.m., shearing off the shared wall of its neighboring building and falling into the construction site on its other side. Roughly 250 firefighters responded with pickaxes, excavators, drones, and rescue dogs, searching through “precarious wreckage” with “dangerous voids beneath the surface” (see them at work). Crews pulled out victims and survivors throughout the night and into yesterday as rainstorms threatened efforts.

NYC Mayor Mamdani (D) said two children and two construction workers were among the dead, and at least 18 more people were hurt, including four firefighters.

The collapse’s cause is under investigation. The building’s north facade was known to be in “poor” condition, and the construction site faced safety violations earlier this year.

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To You alone, Our Lord, we cry for help. Heal our hurting, broken world. Heal those wounded and traumatized, beaten down by the wrongness of the world. Comfort families whose normalcy was suddenly shattered; draw near to those who lost what cannot be restored; steady neighbors unsettled by sorrow. Equip local leaders to manage unexpected needs; rebuild any failed systems in New York City, and rebuild public trust in the infrastructure that supports them.

You can turn mourning into dancing; You exchange funeral attire for wedding clothes; You swap grief for glory. To You alone, Our Lord, we cry for help. Heal our hurting, broken world. Amen. (Read full prayer here.)

POLITICS

Delta Blue

Mississippi finished tallying ballots Wednesday, and Democrat Scott Colom unseated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) by ~4,600 votes.

Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since 1881, and his razor-thin win (49.2% to Hyde-Smith’s 48.7%) marks the eighth flipped-to-blue Senate seat this midterm cycle. Thousands of provisional ballots—filed when voter eligibility can’t be confirmed at the polls—slowed results (see some reasons for provisional ballots).

Colom and voting rights groups say Mississippi used faulty data to deactivate eligible voters; Magnolia State officials say the data only flagged voters for review.

Colom’s victory gives Democrats a 55-44 advantage in the Senate, with one race still uncalled and possibly staying that way. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola holds a slim lead over incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R), but if neither candidate receives 50% of the vote, ballots will be re-tabulated using ranked-choice voting (let Dunder Mifflin explain that to you here).

ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE
Believers shouldn’t allow political outcomes to consume our thoughts, direct our emotions, or dull our hope. Governments will change, but our mission remains the same: love God and love others.

“Jesus answered, ‘The most important is “Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” The second is, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other command greater than these.’”
Mark 12:29-31 (CSB) (read full passage)

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U.S. NEWS

Jensen Out

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO and agreed to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving.

The resignation follows revelations of multiple extramarital affairs; Huang has admitted to a relationship with an alleged Chinese spy and has been accused of relationships with two Nvidia employees, including one of his direct reports. Lawmakers are demanding answers, citing national security concerns.

Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as its only CEO until yesterday, helping build the chipmaker into a $4T powerhouse at the center of the AI boom. Nvidia’s board thanked its now-former chief for his “immeasurable contributions” and named longtime CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO (see the board’s announcement).

Investors are clearly concerned about Nvidia’s Jensen-less future. NVDA stock has fallen 22% since Huang’s relationship with an alleged spy was first reported on October 29th.

Verse to consider whether your shame goes very public or completely unnoticed… “But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8 (CSB) (read full passage)

U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks ended Wednesday with a planned POW swap but no peace breakthroughs. At their first negotiations in nine months, Russia and Ukraine agreed to the “biggest humanitarian release of prisoners” of the nearly five-year war. Diplomats agreed to hold a new round of trilateral talks soon, with Europeans set to join (quadrilateral?) conversations. Territory is reportedly negotiators’ sticking point.


Over 1,800 Italian schools received email bomb threats yesterday, a day after similar threats to ~6,300 schools prompted 300+ evacuations. The Italian government said not to evacuate without “concrete evidence,” and officials are treating the messages as hoaxes. Scotland and Northern Ireland also saw 1,300+ schools threatened Wednesday, continuing a hoax wave across Europe, targeting supermarkets, blood banks, and more.


Two people died, and four were injured in a shooting in Washington, D.C., yesterday. According to officers, a gunman fired inside and outside a VIDA Fitness in the Logan Circle neighborhood before barricading himself in his nearby apartment, later shooting himself. One victim remained in critical condition yesterday; authorities say the gunman had a dispute with the building’s homeowners' association.


Once the world’s fastest ocean liner, the SS United States got a new title Wednesday: world’s largest artificial reef. The 1,000-foot ship went to its watery grave after becoming too expensive to keep afloat. Officials cut holes so it’d sink upright, then said bon voyage off Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it’ll rest in peace for divers and marine life to enjoy. Watch the final moments of its (slooowww) sinking.

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Treasury Secretary Bessent traded his Georgetown home for a military base following reports of assassination threats from Iran. As Bessent leads the U.S.’s economic pressure campaign against Tehran, his office said he “will not be deterred” by the threats. His relocation comes after U.S. officials assessed that Iranian plots against American citizens are reaching more “advanced stages.”

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