Today is Thursday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2025. There are 27 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Dec. 4, 2016, a North Carolina man fired several shots from an assault rifle inside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C., pizzeria, as he attempted to investigate an online conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were harboring child sex slaves at the restaurant; no one was hurt, and the man surrendered. (Edgar Maddison Welch was later sentenced to four years in prison; in 2025, police shot and killed him during a traffic stop in which officials said he pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers.)

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In 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.

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In 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, dubbed the “Million Dollar Quartet,” gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis.

In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in to protest university restrictions on political activity on campus.

In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit, its sister ship, Gemini 6A, was launched on Dec. 15 on a one-day mission; the two spacecraft were able to rendezvous within a foot of each other.)

In 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party were shot and killed during a raid by Chicago police.

In 1991, after being abducted and held hostage for nearly seven years by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was freed from captivity.

In 2018, long lines of people wound through the Capitol Rotunda to view the casket of former President George H.W. Bush.

In 2024, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk. (The accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges.)

In 2024, France’s far-right and left-wing lawmakers joined together in a no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes, forcing Prime Minister Michel Barnier to resign, a first since 1962. President Emmanuel Macron insisted he would serve the rest of his term until 2027.

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor-producer Max Baer Jr. is 88.
Actor Gemma Jones is 83.
Actor Jeff Bridges is 76.
Actor Patricia Wettig is 74.
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson is 70.
Basketball Hall of Famer Bernard King is 69.
Baseball Hall of Famer Lee Smith is 68.
Olympic pole vault gold medalist Sergey Bubka is 62.
Actor Marisa Tomei is 61.
Actor-comedian Fred Armisen is 59.
Rapper Jay-Z is 56.
Actor Kevin Sussman is 55.
Actor-model Tyra Banks is 52.
Football Hall of Famer Joe Thomas is 41.
Musician Jelly Roll is 41.
Singer-songwriter Jin (BTS) is 33.

Gophers men’s basketball coach Niko Medved wanted to see the character of his shorthanded team in the Big Ten opener against No. 22 Indiana on Wednesday.

Already amid a three-game nonconference losing streak, what were the U players made of after swallowing the tough news that starting point guard Chansey Willis Jr. is out for the season with a broken foot?

Turns out, a heck of a lot as the Gophers upset the Hoosiers 73-64 at Williams Arena.

Minnesota (5-4, 1-0 Big Ten) was eight-point underdogs against the previously undefeated Hoosiers (7-1, 0-1). Indiana was 19th in the country, according to the KenPom analytics site, while Minnesota’s swoon had them way down the list to 116.

The stunning win came in Medved’s first conference game at his alma mater.

“I try not to get emotional,” Medved said postgame. “I’m just so proud. It’s why you coach. You do what you do to try to help young people respond and to see the way that, they did is awesome. From a personal level, it just feels unbelievable to have the crowd into it and the students. That is what I grew up with here, that way. This is a day that I’ll remember. … We got to enjoy this. You don’t get to do this every day.”

The Gophers took a 65-55 lead with Bobby Dunkin’s 3-pointer with four minutes left, but the Hoosiers went on a 7-0 run to put pressure on Minnesota.

Minnesota had only eight scholarship players; they were also missing starting center Robert Vaihola (knee), BJ Omot (leg) and Chance Stephens (illness).

Then three Minnesota big men — Jaylen Crocker-Johnson, Grayson Grove and Nehemiah Turner — battled serious foul trouble in the second half.

Four players had to log nearly every minute: Cade Tyson played all 40, Isaac Asuma 39, Langston Reynolds 38 and Bobby Durkin nearly 37.

Minnesota had five players in double figures, and only one point from its thin bench.

The Gophers defense made it challenging for the Hoosiers two best shooters — Tucker DeVries and Lamar Wilkerson. Each were making more than 40% from three-point range, but were held to 31% Wednesday.

Indiana’s leading scorer, Tucker DeVries, was held to nearly half his scoring average. He shot 3 for 13 from the field and finished with nine points

“It was everybody because we got into switches, but I just thought Langston Reynold’s mentality defensively was phenomenal,” Medved said. “I thought we did a great job of paying attention to detail, we closed out hard to them. We didn’t give them any clean looks.”

The Gophers held Indiana without a field goal for the final four minutes of the first half, taking a 27-19 deficit to a 33-33 tie at the break.

That surge had the biggest crowd at The Barn so far this season on its feet as the Gophers went into he locker room.

Grayson Grove made impressive hustle plays in the middle of the first half. After a bad pass from Langston Reynolds looked it it would be an easy dunk for Tucker DeVries, Grove blocked it at the rim. Then Grove ran the floor, was fed the ball in the paint and drew a foul.

DeVries was listed to six points in the first half on 2-of-8 shooting. Reynolds and Asuma contributed to him missing his first three treys.

In the first half, Reynolds and Cade Tyson each had nine points for Minnesota.

The Hoosiers made their opening five shots, but Minnesota got more disruptive and forced them to miss four of their next five as the U started to work its way back into the game.

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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and GARY FIELDS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control.

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It’s the latest twist in a seesaw court battle over who controls the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonprofit think tank that focuses on peace initiatives. It was an early target of the Department of Government Efficiency this year.

On Wednesday, the State Department said it renamed the organization to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace to “reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.” The new name could be seen on its building, which is near the State Department.

Trump has spent months openly lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize even though he was passed over for this year’s installment — arguing he had a hand in easing a series of conflicts around the world. But Trump has also ordered strikes on suspected drug vessels off the coast of Venezuela and repeatedly threatened that attacks on land could be coming, which would be an act of war against that country.

The takeover of the Peace Institute was also anything but peaceful, with his administration seizing the independent entity and ousting its board before actually affixing his name to the building.

Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said: “The United States Institute of Peace was once a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace. Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a President who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability.”

She added, “Congratulations, world!”

George Foote, a lawyer for the former Institute leadership and staff, said the renaming “adds insult to injury.”

“A federal judge has already ruled that the government’s armed takeover was illegal. That judgment is stayed while the government appeals, which is the only reason the government continues to control the building,” Foote said.

Since March, the headquarters has switched hands multiple times in court actions related to the DOGE takeover. A final decision on its fate is pending in federal appeals court.

USIP has maintained the organization is an independent creation of Congress and outside the president’s executive authority. The administration argues it is an executive branch organization.

After Trump fired the institute’s board in the the spring, the staff was fired as well and the building was turned over to the General Services Administration.

A federal district court overturned the action in May, putting the headquarters back into the hands of USIP leadership. But that action was reversed weeks later by a federal appeals court.

Employees at this juncture have been fired twice and the building is in GSA’s possession.

The building is expected to be the backdrop for the signing of a peace agreement Thursday between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. High-ranking officials from the African Union, Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Togo, Qatar, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates are also expected to attend the signing, according to Yolande Makolo, a senior adviser to Kagame.

The USIP website remained unchanged Wednesday night, but its lead item was headlined, “President Donald J. Trump to Sign Historic Peace Agreement at USIP Headquarters,” followed by a write-up of the deal between Congo and Rwanda that Trump was overseeing at the institute on Thursday.

The Institute of Peace was created by Congress in the 1980s. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law in 1985. Described as an independent, nonprofit think tank funded by Congress, its mission has been to work to promote peace and prevent and end conflicts while working outside normal channels such as the State Department. It was operating in 26 conflict zones, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mali and Burkina Faso, when DOGE shut the operation down.

There is also broad speculation that Trump will be awarded a new peace prize from FIFA on the sidelines of the World Cup draw, happening in Washington on Friday.

Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani and Will Weissert contributed to this report.

By MATT BROWN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia’s highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China.

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Huang’s closed-door meeting with Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee came at a moment of intensifying lobbying, soaring investments and audacious forecasts by major tech companies about AI’s potential transformative effects.

Huang is among the Silicon Valley executives who warn that any restrictions on the technology will halt its advancement despite mounting concerns among policymakers and the public about AI’s potential pitfalls or the ways foreign rivals like China may use American hardware.

“I’ve said repeatedly that we support export control, that we should ensure that American companies have the best and the most and first,” Huang told reporters before his meeting at the Capitol.

He added that he shared concerns about selling AI chips to China but believed that restrictions haven’t slowed Chinese advancement in the AI race.

“We need to be able to compete around the world. The one thing we can’t do is we can’t degrade the chips that we sell to China. They won’t accept that. There’s a reason why they wouldn’t accept that, and so we should offer the most competitive chips we can to the Chinese market,” Huang said.

Huang also said he’d met with Trump earlier Wednesday and discussed export controls for Nvidia’s chips. Huang added that he wished the president “a happy holidays.”

The Trump administration in May reversed Biden-era restrictions that had prevented Nvidia and other chipmakers from exporting their chips to a wide range of countries. The White House in August also announced an unusual deal that would allow Nvidia and another U.S. chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices, to sell their chips in the Chinese market but would require the U.S. government to take a 15% cut of the sales.

The deal divided lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where there is broad support for controls on AI exports.

A growing battle in Congress

Members of Congress have generally considered the sale of high-end AI chips to China to be a national security risk. China is the main competitor to the U.S. in the race to develop artificial superintelligence. Lawmakers have also proposed a flurry of bills this year to regulate AI’s impact on dozens of industries, though none have become law.

Most Republican senators who attended the meeting with Huang declined to discuss their conversations. But a handful described the meeting as positive and productive.

“For me, this is a very healthy discussion to have,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican. Rounds said lawmakers had a “general discussion” with Huang about the state of AI and said senators were still open to a wide range of policies.

Asked whether he believed Nvidia’s interests and goals were fully aligned with U.S. national security, Rounds replied: “They currently do not sell chips in China. And they understand that they’re an American company. They want to be able to compete around the rest of the world. They’d love to some time be able to compete in China again, but they recognize that export controls are important as well for our own national security.”

Other Republicans were more skeptical of Huang’s message.

Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who sits on the upper chamber’s Banking Committee, said he skipped the meeting entirely.

“I don’t consider him to be an objective, credible source about whether we should be selling chips to China,” Kennedy told reporters. “He’s got more money than the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and he wants even more. I don’t blame you for that, but if I’m looking for someone to give me objective advice about whether we should make our technology available to China, he’s not it.”

Some Democrats, shut out from the meeting altogether, expressed frustration at Huang’s presence on Capitol Hill.

“Evidently, he wants to go lobby Republicans in secret rather than explain himself,” said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.

Warren added that she wanted Huang to testify in a public congressional hearing and answer “questions about why his company wants to favor Chinese manufacturers over American companies that need access to those high-quality chips.”