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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who is the mayor-elect of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he has served as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 36th district since 2021, representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria.
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Mira Nair (IAST: MΔ«rΔ NΔyar; born October 15, 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker. She is known for directing independent dramas through her production company Mirabai Films. She has received two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and four prizes from the Venice Film Festival as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and two CΓ©sar Awards.
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Mahmood Mamdani (born 23 April 1946) is a Ugandan academic and political commentator, and the father of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda.
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2025 New York City mayoral election
An election for the mayor of New York City was held on November 4, 2025. Democratic state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won the election, defeating Republican activist Curtis Sliwa and independent former Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo. This election also had the highest turnout in decades, due to significant young voter registration.
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Abigail Anne Davis Spanberger ( SPAN-bur-gΙr; nΓ©e Davis; born August 7, 1979) is an American politician and former intelligence officer who is the governor-elect of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2019 to 2025. Upon taking office, Spanberger will become the state's first female governor.
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UPS Airlines Flight 2976 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight operated by UPS Airlines from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, an 8. 5 hour flight. On November 4, 2025, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from runway 17R at about 5:13 p. m.
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Curtis Anthony Sliwa (born March 26, 1954) is an American political candidate and radio talk show host. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit crime prevention organization headquartered in New York City. Sliwa was the Republican nominee for the 2025 New York City mayoral election, after running unopposed in the party's primary.
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Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, Cuomo served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous sexual misconduct allegations.
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Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and also for Android, where it is the default browser.
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. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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The mayor of New York City, officially mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, and most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.
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2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election
The 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2025, to elect the governor of New Jersey. Democratic congresswoman Mikie Sherrill won her first term in office, defeating Republican former state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli. She will succeed Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy, who was term-limited.
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2025 Virginia gubernatorial election
The 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2025, to elect the governor of Virginia. The incumbent Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, was ineligible to run for re-election, as the Constitution of Virginia prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. The in-person early voting period ran from September 19 to November 1, 2025.
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Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who has served as the 110th and current mayor of New York City since January 1, 2022. Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain.
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Elections were held in the United States, in large part, on November 4, 2025, in Donald Trump's second presidency. The off-year election included gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous mayoral races and a variety of other local offices on the ballot. Special elections to the United States Congress for newly vacant seats also took place.
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Ghazala Firdous Hashmi ( gΙ-ZAHL-Ι HASH-mee; born July 5, 1964) is an Indian-born American politician, academic administrator, and educator who is the lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served as a Virginia state senator for the 15th district since 2020.
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2025 California Proposition 50
California Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act, is a constitutional amendment that amends California's Constitution, appearing on the special election ballot in California on November 4, 2025.
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Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) season 34
Season thirty-four of Dancing with the Stars premiered on ABC and Disney+ on September 16, 2025, and is scheduled to conclude on November 25, 2025. This season, marking the twentieth anniversary of the series, is the third to air live on both networks simultaneously, and was the first of ABC's unscripted programs to earn an official renewal for their 2025β26 schedule.
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2021 New York City mayoral election
An election for the mayor of New York City was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. On June 22, 2021, the primary elections for the Democratic and Republican primaries were held.
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Glenn Allen Youngkin (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, where he became co-CEO in 2018. He resigned from the position in 2020 to run for governor.
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Winsome Earle-Sears (born March 11, 1964) is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, she is Virginia's first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color elected statewide in the commonwealth. Born in Jamaica, Earle-Sears immigrated to the United States in 1970.
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Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 β 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in 2022. It currently uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
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2021 New Jersey gubernatorial election
The 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the governor of New Jersey. Incumbent Governor Phil Murphy was first elected in 2017 with 56% of the vote and won re-election to a second term. Murphy and his running mate, Lt.
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American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport. On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
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List of mayors of New York City
The mayor of New York City is the chief executive of the Government of New York City, as stipulated by New York City's charter. The current officeholder, the 110th in the sequence of regular mayors, is Eric Adams, a member of the Democratic Party. The mayor-elect is Zohran Mamdani, also a Democrat, who will be sworn in on January 1, 2026.
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2025 Minneapolis mayoral election
The 2025 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 4, 2025. The mayor Jacob Frey won re-election to a third term. Minneapolis uses instant-runoff voting, also known as ranked choice voting, in its mayoral elections.
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6-7 (pronounced "six seven"; also written as 67, 6 7, and 6, 7) is an Internet meme and slang term that emerged in 2025 on TikTok and Instagram Reels. It has no fixed meaning. The phrase originated from the song "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla, which became popular in video edits featuring professional basketball players, especially LaMelo Ball, who is 6 ft 7 in (2. 01 meters) tall.
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Government shutdowns in the United States
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins, and as a result, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or property.
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2021 Virginia gubernatorial election
The 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next governor of Virginia. The election was concurrent with other elections for Virginia state offices. Incumbent Democratic Governor Ralph Northam was ineligible to run for re-election, as the Constitution of Virginia prohibits governors from serving consecutive terms.
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Mary Sheffield (born 1987) is an American politician serving as a member of the Detroit City Council since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been the president of City Council since 2022, as the youngest person ever to hold that office. She is currently the mayor-elect of Detroit, having defeated Rev.
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Democratic Socialists of America
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a political organization in the United States and the country's largest socialist organization. DSA is a big tent of socialists on the left-wing to far-left of the political spectrum, primarily organized around the tenets of democratic socialism.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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2017 New York City mayoral election
An election for Mayor of New York City was held on November 7, 2017. Incumbent Democrat Bill de Blasio won re-election to a second term with 66. 2% of the vote against Republican Nicole Malliotakis.
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All's Fair is an American legal drama series created by Ryan Murphy, and starring Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Teyana Taylor. The series premiered on November 4, 2025, on Hulu. All's Fair received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who criticized Kardashianβs acting.
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Giacchino Michael "Jack" Ciattarelli ( CHIT-Ι-REL-ee; born December 12, 1961) is an American politician and businessman. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 16th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2011 to 2018. Previously, he served on the Raritan Borough Council and the Somerset County Board of Freeholders.
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
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2025 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4, 2025, in two states: New Jersey and Virginia. These elections were held as part of the 2025 United States elections. The last gubernatorial elections for New Jersey and Virginia were in 2021.
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Rose Diane Ladd (nΓ©e Ladner; November 29, 1935 β November 3, 2025) was an American actress. With a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award.
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2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in Bihar on 6 November and 11 November 2025 to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 14 November 2025.
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2024 United States presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. The Republican Party's ticketβDonald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohioβdefeated the Democratic Party's ticketβKamala Harris, the incumbent U.S. vice president, and Tim Walz, the incumbent governor of Minnesota.
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Jacob Lawrence Frey ( FRY; born July 23, 1981) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2018 as the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota DemocraticβFarmerβLabor Party, he served on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018 and was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2017 and reelected in 2021 and 2025.
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Omar Mahmood Fateh ( FAH-tay; born April 19, 1990) is an American politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 62, which includes parts of southwest Minneapolis in Hennepin County. Fateh is the first Somali American and Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate.
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Aftab Karma Singh Pureval (born September 9, 1982) is an American attorney and politician serving as the 70th mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, since January 4, 2022. On January 14, 2021, he declared his candidacy for the 2021 Cincinnati mayoral election. On November 2, 2021, with 65. 8% of the vote, he was elected as mayor, making him the first Asian American to be elected as mayor of Cincinnati.
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A company is a legal entity that represents an association of legal persons with a specific, shared objective, such as the earning of profit or the benefit of society. Depending on jurisdiction, companies can take on various forms, such as voluntary associations, nonprofit organizations, business entities, financial entities, banks, and educational institutions.
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Bill de Blasio (born Warren Wilhelm Jr., May 8, 1961, and known as Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm between 1983 and 2001) is an American former politician who was the 109th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he held the office of New York City Public Advocate from 2010 to 2013. De Blasio was born in Manhattan and raised primarily in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 β November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African-American U.S. Marines, from 1945 to 1946. He graduated cum laude from Howard University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1956.
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Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American politician, financier, and former diplomat serving since 2018 as the 56th governor of New Jersey. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2017 and narrowly reelected in 2021. From 2009 to 2013, Murphy was the U.S. ambassador to Germany.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a liberal political party in the United States. Sitting on the center to center-left of the political spectrum, it is the world's oldest active political party, having been founded in 1828. Its main rival is the conservative Republican Party, and since the 1850s both have dominated American politics.
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Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania.
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Kantara: A Legend β Chapter 1 (transl. Mysterious forest: Chapter 1) is a 2025 Indian Kannada-language epic mythological action film written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty along with Jayaram, Rukmini Vasanth, and Gulshan Devaiah.
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It: Welcome to Derry is an American supernatural horror television series based on Stephen King's 1986 novel It. Serving as a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), the series was developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, all of whom were involved in the It films.
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2013 New York City mayoral election
An election for the mayor of New York City occurred on November 5, 2013, along with elections for comptroller, public advocate, borough president, and members of the New York City Council. The incumbent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-Independent, was term-limited and thus unable to seek re-election to a fourth term in office. Primary elections were held on September 10, 2013.
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Nawat Itsaragrisil (Thai: ΰΈΰΈ§ΰΈ±ΰΈΰΈΰΉ ΰΈΰΈ΄ΰΈͺΰΈ£ΰΉΰΈΰΈ£ΰΈ¨ΰΈ΅ΰΈ₯; born 10 August 1965) is a Thai media personality and businessperson, best known as the president of Miss Grand International organization, the National Director of Miss Universe Thailand and the Executive Director of Miss Universe organization.
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Mario Matthew Cuomo (, Italian: [ΛmaΛrjo ΛkwΙΛmo]; June 15, 1932 β January 1, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo previously served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 1979 to 1982 and the secretary of state of New York from 1975 to 1978.
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Kampala (UK: , US: ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 4,265,160 (2025) and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa, and Rubaga. Kampala's metropolitan area consists of the city proper and the neighboring Wakiso District, Mukono District, Mpigi District, Buikwe District and Luweero District.
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2025 Virginia Attorney General election
The 2025 Virginia Attorney General election was held in the US state on November 4, 2025, to elect the attorney general of Virginia. The incumbent Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, ran for re-election, but lost to Democratic nominee Jay Jones by a seven percentage point margin. The in-person early voting period ran from September 19 to November 1, 2025.
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2025 Virginia House of Delegates election
The 2025 Virginia House of Delegates election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 to elect members of the 164th Virginia General Assembly. All 100 delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member districts. Nomination primaries conducted by the Department of Elections were held June 17, 2025.
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The Guardian Angels is an American nonprofit volunteer organization with the goal of unarmed crime prevention. Founded by Curtis Sliwa in New York City on February 14, 1979, it has expanded to more than 130 cities and 14 countries worldwide. Sliwa originally created the Guardian Angels to combat violence and crime on the New York City Subway.
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Miss Earth 2025 was the 25th and silver anniversary edition of the Miss Earth pageant, held at the Okada Manila, in ParaΓ±aque, Metro Manila, Philippines, on 5 November 2025. Jessica Lane of Australia crowned NatΓ‘lie PuΕ‘kinovΓ‘ of the Czech Republic as her successor at the conclusion of the event.
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Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American white nationalist political commentator, activist and live streamer. He hosts America First, a livestream promoting Christian nationalism, white supremacy, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and antisemitism, including Holocaust denial. His supporters are known as Groypers.
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Jennifer Lynn Siebel Newsom (nΓ©e Siebel; born June 19, 1974) is an American documentary filmmaker and actress who has served as the first partner of California since 2019 as the wife of Governor Gavin Newsom. She was the director, writer, and producer of the film Miss Representation (2011), which premiered in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Aileen Carol Wuornos () (nΓ©e Pittman; February 29, 1956 β October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. Between 1989 and 1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, Wuornos shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. She claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her, and that the homicides were committed in self-defense.
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2009 New York City mayoral election
The 2009 election for Mayor of New York City took place on Tuesday, November 3. Incumbent Michael Bloomberg, an independent who left the Republican Party in 2008, was reelected on the Republican and Independence Party/Jobs & Education lines with 50. 7% of the vote, over the retiring City Comptroller, Bill Thompson, a Democrat (also endorsed by the Working Families Party), who won 46. 3%.
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William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), known by his stage name Flavor Flav ( FLAY-vΙr FLAYV), is an American rapper and television personality. Known for his catchphrase "Yeah, boyeeeeee"! when performing, he is a founding member alongside Chuck D, of Public Enemy, a rap group that has earned six Grammy Award nominations.
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The Witcher is a fantasy drama television series created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix. It is based on the book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Set on a fictional, medieval-inspired landmass known as the Continent, The Witcher explores the legend of Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Princess Ciri.
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001 and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the 108th mayor of New York City for three terms, from 2002 to 2013, and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
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2025 United States federal government shutdown
On October 1, 2025, the federal government of the United States began a shutdown at 12:01 a. m. EDT as a result of congressional failure to pass appropriations legislation for the 2026 fiscal year, which began that day.
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Elections are scheduled to be held in the United States, in large part, on November 3, 2026. In this U.S. midterm election, which will occur during Republican President Donald Trump's non-consecutive second term, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress.
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New York City mayoral elections
The mayor of New York City is elected in early November every four years, in the year immediately following a United States presidential election year, and takes office at the beginning of the following year.
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The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totalling about 2,000 square feet (190 m2) of mosaic, or 4. 6 million shells. Its age and purpose are unknown.
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3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar comet discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station. The comet follows an unbound, hyperbolic trajectory past the Sun. It will not come closer than 1. 8 AU (almost twice the distance of the Sun) from Earth, so it poses no threat.
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2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election
The 2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect a new governor of New Jersey. Incumbent Republican governor Chris Christie was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term.
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2005 New York City mayoral election
The 2005 New York City mayoral election occurred on November 8, 2005. Incumbent Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg soundly defeated former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic nominee. Several third-party candidates also ran for mayor.
