Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:

Russian and Iranian agents are freely operating in Venezuela, and Hezbollah and Hamas are also present in our country.

Andrew Cuomo:

Trump does not support me, he opposes Zohran Mamdani.

NEW: Saudi Arabia’s request to buy up to 48 U.S. F-35 fighter jets has passed a key Pentagon review, but still needs higher-level approval.

Israel is currently the only Middle Eastern country operating the F-35.

Source: Reuters

Newly unsealed court documents show Jeffrey Epstein held accounts at Goldman Sachs and HSBC’s Swiss private bank.

Source: Reuters

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that if the shutdown lasts another week, the U.S. may face “mass chaos” with major flight delays and cancellations, and some airspace could be closed for safety.

BIG: Zohran Mamdani will become New York’s 111th Mayor—its first Muslim, and youngest in more than a century.

He plans to expand affordable housing, boost public transit, and shift resources toward social services.

Trump's reaction to election results.

Democrats swept major 2025 elections:

Zohran Mamdani won NYC mayor, Mikie Sherrill won New Jersey governor, and Abigail Spanberger became Virginia’s first female governor; Democrat Jay Jones also won VA attorney general.

California passed a House-map measure favoring Democrats, and Pennsylvania kept its Democratic Supreme Court majority.

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Front cover of the New York Post after Zohran Mamdani's victory.

Trump:

…AND SO IT BEGINS!

Zohran Mamdani:

Hope is alive.

Zohran Mamdani:

Politics is no longer something that is done to us, now it is something that we do.

Zohran Mamdani:

No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

Zohran Mamdani:

So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching. I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.

Zohran Mamdani:

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

Zohran Mamdani:

So hear me President Trump when I say this: To get to any of us, you'll have to get through all of us.

Zohran Mamdani:

I am young despite my best efforts to grow older.

I am Muslim.

I am a democratic socialist.

And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

Washington carried out a new strike against a suspected drug trafficking boat.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed a report that the U.S. is planning an anti-cartel mission inside Mexico, saying no such operation will occur and Mexico does not agree to it.

Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral race, becoming the city’s youngest mayor since 1892 and its first Muslim and Africa-born mayor.

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YouTube deleted the channels of three major Palestinian human rights groups, erasing 700+ videos documenting Israeli war crimes.

Google says it acted to comply with Trump administration sanctions tied to the groups’ cooperation with the International Criminal Court.

Source: The Intercept