Nvidia’s board has no succession plan, no COO and no permanent chief — and the first test comes Tuesday, when the chip giant reports earnings with its stock a third below its October peak. Bernstein cut its price target to $200; on Kalshi, Ian Buck leads the succession market at about 36%.
MacObserver: Nvidia stock falls after Huang resigns, earnings days away | BigGo: Kalshi succession odds — Buck 36%, Kress 19%
ELECTIONS & CONGRESS
PELTOLA’S COURT BID FAILS — BUT HER LEAD HOLDS AT 3,975 — A judge denied the campaign’s request for rejected-absentee-ballot records on the worst possible timing, per the court — Peltola leads 121,487–117,512, with ranked-choice tabulation set for Nov. 18.
COLOM WINS MISSISSIPPI — DEMS AT 55, ALASKA STILL TO COME — Colom beat Hyde-Smith by 4,669, 49.2%–48.7%, the first Black senator from Mississippi since 1874; a Peltola win would make it 56.
DEMS AT 255 HOUSE SEATS — MORE THAN A DOZEN RACES STILL UNCALLED — Democrats hold 255 seats, their largest majority since 2008, with 18 races still too early to call — including recounts in South Carolina and Minnesota decided by about 300 votes.
HOUSE DEMS TO TRUMP’S CORPORATE DONORS: SAVE EVERYTHING — Rep. Jared Huffman sent 36 preservation letters to agencies and companies — Boeing, Chevron, Palantir, TikTok, SoftBank — telling them to disable disappearing messages and certify compliance by Nov. 23.
THE OTHER DAN SULLIVAN: 4,027 VOTES THAT COULD DECIDE ALASKA — A retired Petersburg teacher who shares the incumbent’s name finished fourth — and preliminary ranked-choice data show his voters favored Peltola second nearly two-to-one.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
PPI LANDS AT 8:30 AM — THE LAST INFLATION PRINT BEFORE THE DECEMBER HIKE — October PPI is expected up 0.4% month over month, 6.6% year over year; a 25-basis-point December hike is now priced at nearly 91%.
HOME SALES CRATER TO A 16-YEAR LOW — Existing-home sales fell 5.5% to a 3.75 million annual rate, the lowest since August 2010, as the median price hit $416,700 and the 30-year mortgage averaged 7.33%.
QUICK HITS
KALSHI: PELTOLA 99¢ TO WIN ALASKA
BOEBERT STILL TRAILS IN CO-04 AS BALLOTS TRICKLE IN
ALASKA’S NEXT MILESTONES: FRIDAY BALLOT DROP, NOV. 18 TABULATION
JUDGE DENIES PELTOLA ABSENTEE-BALLOT BID; DOJ’S ALASKA SUIT TOSSED NOV. 1
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TRUMP: NO IRAN DEAL NEEDED — VANCE REASSIGNED TO DOMESTIC CRIME — The president said the U.S. has Iran’s money and control of the strait, and shifted Vance to corruption and crime in Democratic-run states — after Vance blamed the Iran war for the GOP’s midterm losses.
WHITE HOUSE: DEM PROBES COULD BE ‘BLATANT CRIMINALITY’ — White House counsel William Scharf warned incoming Oversight chair Robert Garcia that the planned investigations could cross a line — days after the president ordered a DOJ probe of the investigators.
JUDGE BARS DOJ LAWYER, THREATENS DEFAULT JUDGMENT OVER ‘BAD FAITH’ LETTER — Judge Sanket Bulsara barred a DOJ lawyer from an ICE case, calling a Nov. 4 letter a deliberate attempt to mislead the court, and demanded the government’s withdrawal by today.
JUDGE BLOCKS END OF PROTECTED STATUS FOR ~3,000 YEMENIS — Judge Dale Ho blocked the administration’s move to end TPS for Yemeni nationals, days after the Supreme Court agreed to weigh the Haiti and Syria cases.
THE FED ECONOMIST, THE CHINESE SPY RING, AND A 38-MONTH SENTENCE — Former Fed adviser John Harold Rogers was sentenced in July for lying to investigators after a handler arranged his marriage and paid him — China held $816 billion in Treasuries at the time.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
ANTHROPIC IPO: $70–$78 A SHARE, UP TO $1.4 TRILLION — The AI lab prices Nov. 18 and debuts on the Nasdaq Nov. 19 — at a valuation that would make it the biggest IPO in history, with run-rate revenue near $81 billion.
OIL HEADS FOR A SECOND WEEKLY DROP AS IRAN BLOCKADE HOLDS — Brent is up slightly to $96.35, but both benchmarks are on track for about 2% weekly declines after last week’s plunge — and Iran says four tankers were hit by explosions in the Strait of Hormuz.
QUICK HITS
INTERIOR CALLS SHREDDING REPORTS ‘100% FALSE’
VANCE HAD BLAMED THE IRAN WAR FOR GOP MIDTERM LOSSES
GEOPOLITICS
POPE LEO COMES HOME TO CHICLAYO — NEARLY A MILLION EXPECTED AT MASS — The pope returns today to the Peruvian diocese he led for eight years, after 52,000 young people packed Lima’s National Stadium — then on to Cajamarca, Cusco and the Amazon before flying home Monday.
UENO WRECKAGE: $600M IN SOUND ASSETS, 1.8M SAVERS PAID — Paraguay’s seized bank is passing its good assets to local banks in lots, with 1.8 million depositors advanced about $644 million — as prosecutors widen the case and the ousted president sits in pretrial detention.
EUROPE GETS A SEAT AT THE UKRAINE TABLE — BUT WHO SPEAKS FOR IT? — EU leaders meet in Dublin today to pick a single negotiator, as Zelenskyy insists Europe be in the room — and a major prisoner exchange is being prepared.
FRANCE BRACES: 70,000 POLICE FOR SATURDAY’S PROTESTS — Elite units, helicopters and water cannon will guard the weekend marches after more than 500,000 turned out last Saturday and 2,700 were arrested; the Louvre closes for the day.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
KOSPI GIVES BACK A 5,500 RALLY, CLOSES DOWN 1% — Seoul fell 0.98% to 5,290.53 after opening up 2% — foreigners sold 555 billion won as Samsung and SK hynix both slid.
QUICK HITS
SEOUL SHARES DROP NEARLY 1% AS CHIP STOCKS SLIDE
POPE RETURNS TO CHICLAYO, THE DIOCESE HE LED EIGHT YEARS
PEÑA CHARGED, HELD IN PRETRIAL DETENTION; $809M STATE DAMAGE ALLEGED
SPORTS
COMMANDERS STUN GIANTS 24–21 ON DIGGS’ LATE TD — Stefon Diggs’ 32-yard score with 57 seconds left capped a wild Thursday night — Jayden Daniels threw three touchdowns, and a Jameis Winston “Who Let the Dogs Out” delay penalty helped set up the winner.
CADE’S HISTORIC NIGHT: 52 POINTS, 11 ASSISTS, ZERO TURNOVERS — Cunningham poured in 52 with no turnovers as Detroit outlasted Washington 144–140 in double overtime — Trae Young answered with 37 and 14 assists.
SPURS WIN 10TH STRAIGHT; LAKERS MAKE IT 7 IN A ROW — Wembanyama scored 32 in a 22-point comeback while Doncic poured in 32 for the Lakers — and the Warriors got bad news on Curry’s injury.
WEEK 11 PREVIEW: TEXAS-LSU IS LOSER-GOES-HOME — Five ranked matchups headline Saturday — Texas visits LSU at 7:30, USC visits Indiana, and No. 2 Utah faces Arizona under the lights.
CFP RANKINGS: GEORGIA NO. 1, UTAH NO. 2, ALABAMA NO. 3 — The second playoff rankings brought serious movement — and Saturday’s slate should shake them up again.
TRAVEL
EUROPE’S CHRISTMAS MARKETS 2026 — VIENNA’S RATHAUSPLATZ OPENS TODAY — The season’s most famous market lights up today — glühwein, handcrafted gifts and the big tree under the Rathaus.
15 HIDDEN AMERICAN TOWNS ROAD-TRIPPERS NEVER FIND — Marfa, Eureka Springs and Leavenworth lead a list of small towns worth the detour — the kind of places you plan a trip around, not through.
10 UNDERRATED TOWNS WORTH THE DRIVE IN 2026 — Main streets, mountain views and diners that haven’t changed in decades — a reminder that the best road trips end somewhere small.
15 CHARMING SMALL TOWNS TO VISIT IN 2026 — From coastal villages to desert outposts, the year’s best small-town escapes — all within a tank of gas of something bigger.
QUAINT TOWNS AND SCENIC DRIVES FOR A RELAXING WEEKEND — Slow roads, pretty main streets and nowhere to be in a hurry — the weekend trip that actually feels like a break.
FOOD
72 THANKSGIVING RECIPES, FROM COPYCAT SIDES TO PIES — Two weeks out, the full menu is here — every side, stuffing and pie worth making from scratch.
35 BEST THANKSGIVING RECIPES FOR THE WHOLE MENU — The tried-and-true dishes that carry the holiday, tested and ready for the big day.
WHAT TO EAT IN NOVEMBER — THANKSGIVING FAVORITES — The month’s best cooking is all about the feast — cozy, classic and crowd-pleasing.
FAVORITE THANKSGIVING RECIPES, TRIED AND TRUE — The recipes that show up every year for a reason — simple, reliable and always the first to disappear.
THANKSGIVING IDEAS: SIDES, DESSERTS, LEFTOVERS — What to do with the bird, the sides and everything after — including the leftovers worth planning for.
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