NYC mayoral election results live: Mamdani declares victory, Cuomo concedes

 

• Zohran Mamdani has won the closely-watched mayoral election in New York City, defeating independent Andrew Cuomo, according to projections by the Associated Press news agency.
• Mamdani, who calls himself a democratic socialist, will become the city’s first Muslim mayor.

Oscar-nominated actress Diane Ladd dies at 89

 Sakshi Venkatraman

Role,

3 November 2025

Diane Ladd, three-time Academy Award nominee and star of Wild at Heart, has died aged 89.

Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday.

"My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning," Dern said in a statement, adding that her final moments were spent at home in California.

US government shutdown threatens the spending power of Co

 

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - As Republican and Democratic lawmakers trade blame for the U.S. government shutdown, some have begun to worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive President Donald Trump.

The White House during the shutdown has frozen billions of dollars in funds meant for Democratic-led jurisdictions, sought to lay off thousands of federal workers and shifted money around to guarantee that military personne

Navy helicopter and US fighter jet crash in separate incidents in the South China Sea

 

A U.S. Navy helicopter and a fighter jet crashed in the South China Sea on Oct. 26 in two separate incidents, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

A MH-60R Seahawk helicopter went down at about 2:45 p.m. local time "while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz," the Navy said in a statement on social media. The helicopter was assigned to the "Battle Cats" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73.

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