Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 9.

1. X CEO OUT

2. Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago With ‘Urgent Message’ for Trump

3. New Mexico Declares Emergency Over Deadly Flooding

4. Poll: Mamdani Leads General Election for NYC Mayor

5. Russia Launches Record Drone Attack on Ukraine

6. Nvidia Hits a $4 Trillion Valuation

7. ‘Superman’ Director Admits New Movie Is Political

1. X CEO OUT

Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday announced she is stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk’s social media site X after two years in the role.

Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok repeatedly made antisemitic comments and referenced Hitler in response to posts about the Texas flooding.

Grok is built by Musk’s company xAI, which merged with X in March in an all-stock transaction that values the AI company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion.

2. Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago With ‘Urgent Message’ for Trump

A woman was charged Monday night after approaching President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, and telling U.S. Secret Service agents she had an “urgent message” for the president while claiming to have firearms in her vehicle.

A series of trespassing incidents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach has prompted renewed attention regarding the security of the president’s residence.

Over the past several years, numerous individuals have been arrested after allegedly attempting to enter the property under suspicious or false pretenses, in some cases carrying electronic equipment or claiming to have messages for the president.

3. New Mexico Declares Emergency Over Deadly Flooding

New Mexico’s flooding rains killed a man and two children in the Village of Ruidoso and prompted dozens of water rescues in the state’s south over Tuesday night, officials said.

N.M. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an emergency declaration late Tuesday “to get federal response teams and repair resources on the ground immediately,” she said on Facebook.

The thunderstorm that led to the National Weather Service declaring a flash flood emergency for the Ruidoso area on Tuesday afternoon emerged in moist air from the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, which also triggered catastrophic flooding in neighboring Texas.

4. Poll: Mamdani Leads General Election for NYC Mayor

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani holds a 10 point lead over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s general election for mayor, while incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trails in fourth place behind Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, according to a new poll.

Mamdani gets support from 35 percent of registered voters, followed by Cuomo with 25, Sliwa with 14, Adams at 11 and attorney Jim Walden at 1 percent. Thirteen percent of respondents said they weren’t sure, while 1 percent picked another candidate.

The poll was conducted and paid for by Slingshot Strategies, a polling firm that worked for mayoral candidate Scott Stringer in the Democratic primary but is unattached in the general election.

5. Russia Launches Record Drone Attack on Ukraine

NATO jets were scrambled overnight as Russia carried out its largest drone attack yet on Ukraine, launching more than 700 drones, officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the “new massive Russian attack on our cities” involved “728 drones of various types, including over 300 Shaheds, and 13 missiles – Kinzhals and Iskanders.

“Most of the targets were shot down. Our interceptor drones were used — dozens of enemy targets were downed, and we are scaling up this technology. Mobile fire groups were also active – they downed dozens as well. I thank all our warriors for their precision,” he added.

6. Nvidia Hits a $4 Trillion Valuation

Nvidia stock jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom.

The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value.

Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft and Apple, both of which hit the $3 trillion mark before Nvidia. Microsoft is also one of Nvidia’s biggest and most important customers.

7. ‘Superman’ Director Admits New Movie Is Political

Director James Gunn has confirmed that the new “Superman” movie is intended to be a political film.

“I mean, ‘Superman’ is the story of America,” Gunn said in an interview with The Times of London published on Friday. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”

The DC Studios co-chair acknowledged that both sides of the political spectrum will interpret the themes differently, depending on their individual beliefs.