He made "affordability" the centerpiece of his campaign pitch to New Yorkers.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mamdani-makes-history-improbable-meteoric-rise-become-new/story?id=127196199
Virginia also has contests for lieutenant governor and attorney general.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/virginia-2025-election-results-spanberger-earle-sears-face/story?id=127171737
ABC News’ Jay O’Brien talks about what Congress would look like after Pelosi leaves office in 2027: “We don't know what will happen now with this seat.”https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/nancy-pelosi-announces-retirement-congress-127259221
President Trump said he'll "take care" of New York City after self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mandani won the city's mayoral election on Tuesday night.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/trump-after-mamdani-day-after-nyc-mayoral-election-127232598
California's Proposition 50, redrawing the congressional map to make five districts more Democratic-leaning, will pass, ABC News projects.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/californias-proposition-50-pass-abc-news-projects-127207482
A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Louisville, Kentucky killing at least seven people.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/fireball-deadly-ups-plane-crash-louisville-caught-camera-127216888
Pop star Tate McRae had a viral moment after performing into the wrong end of her microphone.https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/tate-mcrae-caught-singing-upside-mic-127217147
Juan Pablo Dos Santos was told he’d never walk again. This weekend, he finished the 2025 NYC Marathon in last place, in 15:21, to cheers as loud as the first-place winner’s.https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/video/2025-nyc-marathons-finisher-inspiring-127194027
Mamdani is set to be the city's first Muslim mayor of south Asian descent.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/democrat-zohran-mamdani-win-nyc-mayoral-race-abc-127200080
The two letters survived the past century inside a Schweppes-brand bottle, which Debra Brown found on Wharton Beach in early Octoberhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/109-year-old-messages-in-a-bottle-written-by-soldiers-heading-to-fight-in-world-war-i-discovered-on-australian-beach-180987649/
When presented with multiple clues about the location of food, chimps revised their choices based only on stronger clues, indicating they were comparing the worth of pieces of informationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chimpanzees-weigh-evidence-to-make-a-smart-choice-in-a-process-resembling-human-rationality-180987643/
On October 24, Sylvan Evermore and his father reached the top of the 3,000-foot-tall vertical granite cliff using a method known as "jugging"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-8-year-old-boy-ascends-el-capitan-following-in-his-brothers-footsteps-180987622/
The indentations are nests of fish called yellowfin notie, and they are not randomly scattered—rather, they appear to have been arranged in distinct patternshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-found-hundreds-of-mysterious-dimples-on-the-seafloor-near-antarctica-now-they-know-what-creature-made-them-180987646/
A massive freighter carrying thousands of tons of iron ore disappeared in Lake Superior, setting shipping on a new coursehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-edmund-fitzgerald-sank-half-a-century-ago-were-still-fascinated-180987648/
The new limited series dramatizes the brief tenure of the 20th commander in chief, who was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer who believed he'd secured Garfield's electionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-story-behind-netflixs-death-by-lightning-and-the-shocking-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield-180987598/
The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black holehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-detect-the-brightest-and-most-distant-black-hole-flare-ever-seen-180987647/
New research indicates that even moderate step counts, as low as 3,000 steps daily, were linked with delayed symptom onsethttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-little-bit-of-exercise-might-slow-cognitive-decline-in-people-at-risk-of-developing-alzheimers-180987645/
Octav Stroici, a 66-year-old Romanian man, was restoring the Torre dei Conti when the accident occurred on November 3. Several other workers were successfully rescued from the medieval structurehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/800-year-old-tower-partially-collapses-near-romes-colosseum-killing-a-worker-trapped-inside-180987644/
Snakebites are among the deadliest neglected tropical diseases, and scientists have long been searching for more effective ways to prevent their devastating effectshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-a-new-antivenom-that-can-combat-bites-from-17-snake-species-trials-in-mice-suggest-180987629/
The president has exercised tax and spending powers that belong to Congress. The Supreme Court might be ready to say “enough.”https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-tariffs-are-a-massive-money-grab-thats-why-they-are-in-trouble-cc88c1a1