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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is approaching the final days of his more than two decades in the Senate. But he’s still got some juice in him.
“I’m looking for a job, if you have any ideas,” Cornyn said Tuesday when asked by TMZ about his next steps. “People who retire die.”
Cornyn met with his successor, Democratic Sen.-elect James Talarico, this week to help with transitioning his office. Talarico will be sworn in in January. Cornyn, 74, said Talarico expressed interest in continuing with the Republican’s case work staff. Several Democrats who won in Texas’s historic blue wave have retained or added Republican staffers to ensure continuity in a state where they have not governed in more than 30 years.
Cornyn said he would cheer for Talarico’s success, as long as his priorities are in line with Texans’ interests. Still, Cornyn remained confident he could have kept the Senate seat red had he been on the ballot. Cornyn lost in a bitter primary runoff to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who lost to Talarico by 12 percentage points.
Nvidia has retained former federal prosecutor Joon H. Kim to lead its investigation into its CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
Kim is a partner with the elite firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which previously investigated claims that the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary rules for star basketball player Kawhi Leonard. Kim served in various roles in the Southern District of New York — the prestigious jurisdiction with remit over financial institutions and major white-collar crime — from 2000 to 2006 and again from 2013 to 2018.
Kim’s retainer was first reported by the New York Times.
Huang’s Sunday admission that he had been unfaithful to his wife has roiled Washington and Wall Street as Nvidia, which develops the prized chips that power artificial intelligence, faces questions about whether the actions of its top executive threatened national security.
Kim has worked a number of high-profile cases. In 2021, while he was in private practice, he was one of the independent investigators who probed allegations of sexual harassment by former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo. While an assistant U.S. attorney, he was involved in organized crime cases, including the murder conviction of American mobster Peter Gotti.
Leaders in Cranbury Township, New Jersey, defended their decision to keep the loss of $26 million from the public until after the election, saying on Monday that law enforcement had instructed officials not to disclose the theft as they investigated.
At a contentious meeting of the Cranbury Township Committee, Mayor Lisa Knierim said waiting until last week to announce the September theft helped law enforcement agencies track and recover some of the stolen funds.
The money, raised from the issuance of a public bond, was intended to buy property for affordable housing but was inadvertently sent to a fraudulent account during a “sophisticated financial theft operation,” the township stated.
Law enforcement officials have so far identified and frozen about $17.5 million of the stolen money.
“We kept things quiet for a reason,” Police Chief Giuseppe N. DeChiara said. “If we tipped our hand too early, they could have liquidated everything.”
Several community members and New Jersey Republican leaders have questioned why the committee waited until Friday to disclose the theft. They accused Knierim, a Democrat, of withholding the information until after last Tuesday’s election, when a Democrat defeated a Republican for a seat on the township committee.
But DeChiara said he and his state and federal law enforcement partners decided when the information should be released to the public.
“They did everything I asked them to do,” DeChiara said.
The investigation is ongoing.
International health experts began meeting Tuesday to determine whether the United States will lose its status as a country that eliminated the continuous spread of measles, a landmark public health achievement attained more than a quarter century ago.
A committee of the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization, is meeting behind closed doors through Friday to determine whether there is evidence that the U.S. has had uninterrupted transmission of measles for more than 12 months. If so, the country would lose its measles-elimination status, attained in 2000.
The committee is expected to announce its conclusions next Tuesday.
This year, the U.S. has tallied more measles cases than in any year since 1991. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 5,182 cases so far in 2026, compared with 2,289 during all of 2025. States and counties have reported at least nine people with measles have died.
The global review follows a resurgence that began with a major outbreak in West Texas in January 2025 and was followed by sustained outbreaks in Utah, Arizona and other states.
The U.S. is presenting its data Tuesday, said Noel Brewer, who chairs the U.S. committee that reviews the annual measles reports of the CDC to verify whether the U.S. maintains or loses its status. Brewer said he could not share the report’s contents or conclusions. But publicly available data shows two separate chains of transmission that have extended beyond 12 months, he said.
The commission is reviewing all countries in the Americas. The U.S. and Mexico are receiving particular scrutiny because their outbreaks have lasted long enough to raise questions about continuous transmission.
It’s been an unseasonably warm start to November across the East, but that’s about to change.
From Thursday into Friday, a cold air mass from Canada will clash with the still-warm waters of the Atlantic, helping to spawn a potential nor’easter.
While this storm currently looks unlikely to be as intense as the one that drenched the region in late September, it’s expected to produce the season’s first snow across some mountainous areas of the Northeast — especially as colder air wraps into the storm on Friday.
That includes the Adirondacks and Catskills in New York; Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains; Vermont’s Green Mountains; New Hampshire’s White Mountains; and perhaps elevated stretches of western Massachusetts and Connecticut, near the Taconic Mountains — though some of these places have already experienced snow this season.
Minor accumulations are also forecast to stretch southward into the Appalachians, including across West Virginia.
Chilly rain and blustery winds will make for unpleasant conditions in the stretch from Massachusetts to New Jersey later Thursday through Friday, with showers expected across the Mid-Atlantic. It’s possible that wet snow mixes with the rain outside the mountains, but little or no snow accumulation is forecast at this point.
In the wake of the storm, unusually cold air will spill southward this weekend, with early morning temperatures predicted to dip into the upper 30s in northern Florida and freezing temperatures forecast in a corridor from Mississippi to Georgia.
Weekend high temperatures will probably top out near 50 degrees in D.C., making for the coolest conditions there since March.
The Food and Drug Administration issued updated rules on GLP-1 medications Monday and will now require manufacturers to warn on labels that the drugs can potentially increase the risk of vision loss.
But that doesn’t mean people taking or considering taking GLP-1s should immediately be discouraged, said Manjot Gill, a professor of ophthalmology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
“I don’t want people walking away thinking like, ‘Well, I’ve got to stop taking this drug now,’” Gill said. “They need to know the context that the risk is very, very low to begin with.”
The eye condition potentially associated with GLP-1s — non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), often referred to as “eye stroke” — is very rare. In people over the age of 50, it affects between 2 to 10 people out of every 100,000 every year, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Studies have reached conflicting conclusions about whether GLP-1 drugs raise the risk of NAION. Other known risk factors for the condition include age, diabetes and smoking.
Gill said more research is needed to determine whether GLP-1s are definitely linked to NAION. For now, patients should discuss the risks with their doctors and immediately report any symptoms of vision loss, she said.
For most patients, though, she believes the benefits of weight-loss medication outweighs the risk of a rare eye complication.
“Their health benefits that they’re going to derive from lowering their blood sugar, lowering their blood pressure, their cholesterol … the benefits of these drugs is far, far greater,” Gill said.
The Massachusetts State Police has agreed to pay $100,000 to Karen Read to settle a lawsuit alleging that the officer who investigated her boyfriend’s death was improperly vetted and trained.
Read alleged that Michael Proctor, a former member of the Massachusetts State Police, had sent racist and misogynistic text messages for years, revealing what her lawsuit called a “culture of bigotry” at the agency.
Read was found not guilty of murdering her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in her second trial last year (the first ended with a deadlocked jury).
Proctor, the lead investigator in the case, was fired from the state police in 2025 over alleged misconduct that included sexist text messages about Read.
The state police said in a statement that this month’s settlement would “avoid prolonged litigation and the significant costs to taxpayers of continuing the case.”
Under the Massachusetts law cited in Read’s suit, damages are capped at $100,000.
Read’s lawsuit quoted dozens of alleged messages between Proctor and a Canton Police Department officer in which they repeatedly referred to Black people using the n-word and women using the c-word, among other racist and antisemitic comments.
The state police agency “unequivocally condemns the racist, sexist and abhorrent messages quoted in the complaint,” it said in a court filing.
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