Daily Brief: November 9, 2026

November 9, 2026 · Episode runtime 12 min 25 sec

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Eleven top stories for Monday, November ninth: Russian energy strikes black out Ukraine before the Abu Dhabi talks, the Krakow shooting suspect dies, a deadly train collision near Cairo, Stephen Miller takes over the West Wing, scrutiny of Nvidia's chief executive widens, Lando Norris wins in Sao Paulo and more.

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From Seven Lights, this is your Daily Brief for Monday, November ninth, twenty twenty-six. Coming up on today’s show: massive power cuts across Ukraine after a wave of Russian strikes. Poland mourns the victims of the Krakow market square attack as the gunman dies. A deadly train collision south of Cairo. Growing calls in Congress for an inquiry into Nvidia’s chief executive. Stephen Miller takes charge of the West Wing. The president says his job offer to the Ultimate Fighting Championship boss was a joke. Chris Christie declares the Trump era over and weighs a run in twenty twenty-eight. Lando Norris wins a wet thriller in Sao Paulo as Mercedes takes the constructors’ title. A record opening for Godzilla Minus Zero. The Elizabeth Holmes documentary sweeps the Critics Choice awards. And Heated Rivalry is filming two seasons at once, plus a Christmas film. Let’s get into it.

Our first story takes us to Ukraine, where Russian missile and drone attacks on the energy network left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Sunday. Officials in Dnipropetrovsk region said six hundred thousand people there were left in the dark. President Volodymyr Zelensky said twelve regions came under attack, and that Kyiv was hit hardest. The wave included more than thirty ballistic missiles and over one hundred seventy drones. Nine people were hurt across the country, including one child. In the capital, damage fell on residential buildings, the North Bridge and a kindergarten. Strikes also hit substations that connect two nuclear power plants to the capital and central Ukraine. In the city of Dnipro, hospitals switched to diesel generators and electric public transport stopped. Repair crews worked while Russian shelling continued. The strikes came days before American-brokered talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi. France said it would join those talks on November tenth and eleventh. It is the first major diplomatic session since February.

From Ukraine we turn to Poland, where the suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Krakow’s Main Market Square died in hospital early Monday. Police said the twenty-four-year-old, named in local media as Michal O., had been in critical condition after a gun battle with armed officers. They shot him within three minutes of the attack beginning. Authorities said he was probably inspired by far-right ideologies. Six people died in the square at the heart of Krakow, Poland’s second-largest city. The dead were four women and two men: four Poles, a British national and an Austrian woman. Seventeen people were injured, among them five foreigners and two police officers, one of them seriously hurt. Three bodies found in the gunman’s home were identified as his father, his mother and his sister. The national prosecutor’s office opened a terrorism investigation. Two days of national mourning began Monday, and Poles laid flowers and lit candles near the scene.

In other news from abroad, two passenger trains collided in Giza province on Sunday. The crash, about fifty-two kilometers south of Cairo, killed at least seven people and injured one hundred twelve. The National Railways said a train running from Giza to Fayoum province struck the rear of a stationary service bound for Aswan. The chief prosecutor’s office said the driver of the moving train was among the dead. The collision happened in the al-Ayyat district at about half past one in the afternoon. Witnesses said six carriages overturned. Residents, railway workers and first responders rushed to the site and pulled survivors from the wreckage. One witness said rescuers dug beneath one carriage to reach trapped passengers. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi ordered an urgent investigation to hold anyone negligent accountable. Serious accidents are frequent on Egypt’s rail network, which carries millions of passengers each year. No cause was announced.

Turning now to the United States, demands for a congressional inquiry into Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang widened over the weekend. The chipmaker’s board opened an independent investigation into his reported relationship with a woman that American intelligence officials believe spied for China. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware promised a probe, writing on social media that Congress will investigate and get answers. Axios reported that the suggestion Mr. Huang was compromised by a Chinese intelligence agent could quickly become a major bipartisan focus of the incoming Congress. American broadcasters said the board’s review followed Mr. Huang’s admission of an extramarital affair as well as the espionage allegations. The reporting traces to late October, when the New York Times described the relationship and said President Trump had been briefed. House committee chairs asked Nvidia for documents, setting a November eleventh deadline. Nvidia and the woman have denied wrongdoing, and the Chinese government denies that she spied.

Staying in Washington, Stephen Miller took office as White House chief of staff on Monday. He now heads a West Wing reorganized after the Republican midterm defeat. President Trump announced the change on Truth Social, calling Mr. Miller one of his most trusted advisers. The outgoing chief of staff, Susie Wiles, moves to lead the Trump Political Operation. She said serving the president has been the honor of a lifetime. Fox News reported that deputy chief of staff Richard Walters is leaving his job ahead of the takeover. Mr. Miller wrote that the president has single-handedly saved America, and told his staff to fight with all of their soul. Senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday he was not worried about the change. Incoming Democratic lawmakers attacked the appointment. Democrats won control of Congress in Tuesday’s elections, and Mr. Miller’s first day fell as they laid plans to investigate the administration’s immigration enforcement.

The White House delivered another headline this weekend, this one about the press briefing room. President Trump said on Sunday that he was only kidding when he offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Mr. Trump explained the premise of the joke. If Mr. White took over the briefing room flanked by six fighters, he said, reporters would not mess around with him so much. He had announced the offer on Truth Social on Saturday, and asked Mr. White to bring fighters along as assistants. Mr. White, in London for a boxing event, told a news conference he planned to fly to Washington and meet the president on Monday. He shared the post online with the words, on to the next chapter. C N N reported that Mr. White had declined the offer. The meeting remained on Monday’s schedule.

Looking ahead to the next presidential race, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is weighing a run in twenty twenty-eight. And he declared that the Trump era is over. He told Republicans to take their party in a completely different direction. Mr. Christie made the remarks in an interview with Politico, as reported by The Hill. He said he sees himself as better positioned to run than other prominent Republicans. The comments landed as his party reckoned with midterm losses that handed Democrats control of Congress. Semafor reported that many Republicans believe the party’s next standard-bearer cannot come from Mr. Trump’s White House. Florida governor Ron DeSantis called the election a near-extinction event for Republicans. Mr. Christie served two terms as governor and sought the presidential nomination in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty-four. No decision on a twenty twenty-eight entry was announced. Mr. Trump is barred from a third term, opening the nomination contest without an incumbent at the top of the ticket.

Over to sports, and a rain-soaked race in Brazil. Lando Norris won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on a wet Interlagos circuit on Sunday, finishing more than fourteen seconds ahead of Max Verstappen. Mercedes clinched the twenty twenty-six Formula One constructors’ championship. Mr. Norris started from pole position for McLaren but lost places early to Kimi Antonelli and Liam Lawson. Antonelli built an eight-second lead before a spin on the drying track opened the door. Mr. Norris was among the first to switch from intermediate tires to slicks. He held the lead through a return of rain and a further round of pit stops. Mr. Verstappen drove from twenty-first on the grid to finish second. Antonelli, already this season’s drivers’ champion, was made to look fallible for the first time in a title year. Mr. Norris called it one of the hardest races of the year, and one of the best. After the flag he stepped backward into the podium fireworks holding a broken champagne bottle. Team officials said he was unhurt.

The lighter notes today begin at the box office. Godzilla Minus Zero opened to thirty-one point six million dollars at North American theaters over the weekend. That is the biggest opening ever for a live-action foreign-language film in the United States and Canada. The Japanese film, released by Gkids, led the weekend ahead of the new Cat in the Hat movie, which took second with twenty point five million. The previous foreign-language record belonged to the martial-arts epic Hero, which opened to seventeen point eight million more than twenty years ago. Two non-English films placed in the top five in the same weekend, a rarity. The Indian epic Ramayana, Rise of a Legend, ranked fifth with eight point six five million dollars at home, and opened to fifty-five point seven million worldwide. Godzilla earned another thirty-one point four million outside North America, for a global opening near sixty-three million. Takashi Yamazaki directed. His earlier Godzilla Minus One won the Academy Award for visual effects. The foreign-language opening record had stood since two thousand and two.

In other entertainment news, the documentary You Can See Everything swept the Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday. It won every category for which it was nominated, taking five prizes including best documentary feature. The film follows the last days of Elizabeth Holmes before she went to prison. Ms. Holmes founded the blood-testing company Theranos and was convicted of defrauding investors. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim shared the directing prize. The movie, from the studio A Twenty-Four, also won for cinematography, editing and score. The night’s other big winner was Once Upon a Time in Harlem, which took three awards, including best archival documentary. A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk won best biographical documentary. And the Elvis Presley concert film E P I C won best music documentary.

And to wrap up today’s show, Heated Rivalry is filming its second and third seasons back to back. The hockey romance became a surprise hit for the Canadian streamer Crave, and for H B O in the United States. A standalone Christmas film is also planned, according to Deadline. Creator Jacob Tierney has said season two will run six episodes. But reports point to a twelve-episode production run. The film would be shot in December, and it would not feature the series’ two leads. Neither season three nor the film has been officially announced. The first season built its audience around a romance between two professional hockey players. It became one of Crave’s biggest successes, and a ratings performer for its American broadcaster.

Those are today’s top stories from Seven Lights. Visit sevenlights.org for full coverage of every story.

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