The Morning Briefing: November 9, 2026
Russian strikes cut power in Ukraine before Abu Dhabi talks, the Krakow gunman dies in hospital, Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff, and Nvidia's board opens an inquiry into its chief executive.
Good morning. Russian strikes have left hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine without power days before talks in Abu Dhabi, a gunman who killed six people in Krakow has died in hospital, and Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff today. Here is what to know.
Russian strikes cut power in Ukraine days before Abu Dhabi talks
Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy network left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Sunday, days before American-brokered talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11. France said it would join the talks. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant regained external electricity on Sunday after a grid disconnection forced it to run on emergency diesel generators, with state operator Energoatom saying the 330-kilovolt Ferosplavna-1 line had been reconnected. Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia is building toward a winter campaign against power and heating, while Kyiv has continued its own strikes on Russian oil refineries. Read our earlier report on the strikes and the outages.
Krakow gunman dies in hospital as Poland opens terror inquiry
The gunman who killed six people in a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday has died in hospital, Polish police said early Monday. Police shot the 24-year-old during the attack. Six people were killed in the square, four women and two men, and 16 others were hurt, including two police officers. The bodies of the gunman’s mother, father and sister were later found at his family home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, about 90 miles northeast of Krakow. Polish prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation, and the country has begun two days of national mourning. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the shooting an act of terrorism. Polish media named the gunman as Michal Oksinski, 24, though police have not released his name. The Times reported it was Poland’s deadliest mass shooting since the end of communism in 1989.
Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff
Stephen Miller starts work as White House chief of staff today, replacing Susie Wiles. President Donald Trump announced the change on Friday, three days after Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections. Miller, 41, has served as deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser through Trump’s second term and was the author of the administration’s hardline immigration policies. Wiles, 69, who ran Trump’s 2024 campaign and served as chief of staff since January 2025, will move to the president’s political operation. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Miller is “one of my most trusted advisors” and thanked Wiles for her service. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the move showed Trump had “learned nothing from his historic defeat.”
Nvidia board opens inquiry into chief executive after spy reports
Nvidia’s board said Sunday it has opened an independent investigation after reports that chief executive Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of independent directors, helped by outside lawyers, will run the inquiry. The board said it has “no reason to believe” that national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised. The New York Times and the Financial Times reported that United States intelligence officials believed Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based chip buyer Megaspeed International, had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information on Huang. In an email to staff on Sunday, Huang said he was unfaithful to his wife and apologized to his family, colleagues and shareholders. Three House committee chairs have asked Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18. China has called the allegations unsubstantiated. Read our earlier report on the Nvidia investigation.
Stocks steady after a rough week as traders await inflation data
United States futures pointed higher on Monday morning after a bruising week for stocks. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.1 percent on Friday to 24,579.43 and the S&P 500 gained 0.32 percent to 7,376.86, while the Dow slipped 0.46 percent to 51,285.73. For the week, the Nasdaq lost 3.37 percent, its fourth straight weekly decline. It has now fallen more than 10 percent from its peak a month ago, which puts it in correction territory. Friday’s jobs report shifted the outlook for interest rates: employers added 165,000 jobs in October, more than twice what economists expected, and unemployment fell to 4.1 percent. Traders now look to Tuesday’s consumer price report for the next read on whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates in December. Asian markets recovered on Monday, with Japan’s Nikkei up about 2.7 percent, and Brent crude traded near 97 dollars a barrel.
Seven killed in train collision south of Cairo
At least seven people died and 112 were injured when two passenger trains collided in Al-Ayyat, in Egypt’s Giza governorate about 52 kilometers south of Cairo, on Sunday. Egyptian authorities have opened an investigation into the crash. It was the second deadly rail accident in the region in recent years and drew fresh attention to safety on Egypt’s rail network.
Reporting based on coverage by Reuters, CNN, USA Today, the Associated Press and Saxo Bank.
