A New Republic roundup leads with the Justice Department accusing Senator Richard Blumenthal of harassment over his probe into donors behind Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, with U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz ordering him to lock away his findings or face legal consequences. It also covers Democrats' midterm wins fueling the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact push, Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia amid an affair-and-spying scandal, JD Vance's secret meeting with a Vitol trader before the Venezuela invasion, and Nick Shirley retracting his fraud claims about a Seattle grocery.