A shooter opened fire inside the VIDA Fitness gym in Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood Thursday morning, killing one man and wounding four others roughly a mile north of the White House. Police identified the gunman as Dr. Matt Lambert, a physician reportedly locked in a bitter dispute with his building's management over mold in his seventh-floor unit. He barricaded himself in his penthouse and fatally shot himself; officials say the building manager appears to have been the target.
President Trump said Thursday that negotiations with Tehran are off the table, writing that "we've got their money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and we've got their Strait." He directed Vice President JD Vance, who had been handling back-channel contact with Iran, to shift his "complete and total attention" to corruption investigations in Minnesota, California and Illinois. The administration signaled it believes its blockade and sanctions campaign is working well enough that neither escalation nor diplomacy is needed.
After more than a week of ballot counting, District Attorney Scott Colom has defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by roughly 5,000 votes in the country's closest Senate race. Colom becomes the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1982 and the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction. Hyde-Smith conceded, saying she respects the decision of Mississippi voters, and GOP Gov. Tate Reeves congratulated Colom; certification is due by November 13.
Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as Nvidia's CEO, president and board member, effective immediately, ending a 33-year run at the chipmaker he co-founded. The exit follows reports of a relationship with a woman US intelligence officials suspect was recruited by Beijing to spy on him, plus allegations of an affair with a subordinate. Nvidia shares fell as much as 12% premarket before paring losses, dropping the company's valuation under $4 trillion for the first time since July 2025, with CFO Colette Kress stepping in as interim chief.
Two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi ended with agreement on a large-scale prisoner exchange and some progress on ceasefire monitoring mechanisms, but no breakthrough on territory or a broader truce. Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky confirmed the swap, with final numbers being settled Thursday. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Putin on Thursday and are scheduled to see Zelenskyy on Friday.
Iran's military said Thursday that four oil tankers were struck by explosions after ignoring Iranian warnings in the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran's security chief insists the Strait stays shut until the US answers its seven conditions. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has relocated from his Georgetown home to a US military base after intelligence showed Iranian plotting against him had reached an advanced stage. Bessent has run the sanctions campaign dubbed Operation Economic Outcast since August; Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller have made similar moves.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has now logged 11,042 confirmed Ebola cases and 5,387 deaths, making this the second-largest and second-deadliest outbreak on record behind the 2014-2016 West African epidemic. Driven by the Bundibugyo strain and declared back in May, it carries a case-fatality rate near 49% and has spread across eight of Congo's 26 provinces, with cases also reported in Kenya and Nigeria. Armed insecurity in Ituri and North Kivu keeps disrupting treatment centers and supply lines.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have pinned down what's triggering repeated violent outbursts from a massive unstable star: a hidden black hole or neutron star orbiting alongside it. The pair produces flares bright enough to masquerade as full supernova explosions, which has long confused observers. It's a clean explanation for a class of "impostor" events that have dogged astronomers for years.
Two major clinical trials found that the GLP-1 drug retatrutide significantly reduced knee osteoarthritis pain and improved joint function, well beyond what weight loss alone would predict. That opens a possible non-surgical path for millions facing knee replacement. Separately, a study of nearly 100,000 Americans identified thousands of new gene variants affecting how patients respond to prescription drugs.
The 990-foot SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built and still holder of the transatlantic speed record she set in 1952, was deliberately sunk in the Gulf off Florida on Veterans Day evening. Crews began flooding her in the afternoon; she stayed stubbornly afloat about five hours before rolling onto her side and vanishing into 180 feet of water some 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach. The roughly $13 million project, funded by county tourist tax revenue, turns her into the world's largest artificial reef and a premier dive site.
