U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruiting on mobile billboard trucks in Washington, D.C.

South Africa notes President Trump's "regrettable" social media post and states that "the characterisation of Afrikaners as an exclusively white group is ahistorical. Furthermore, the claim that this community faces persecution, is not substantiated by fact." dirco.gov.za/south-africa...

President Trump departs for Mar-a-Lago.

Trump hosts Orban at the White House.

U.S. President Trump stands by as attendees help a guest after he collapsed during an event on lowering drug prices in the Oval Office at the White House. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

Boric takes aim at Trump ahead of COP30 Chilean President @GabrielBoric called out President Trump, saying he lied at this year's UNGA when Trump dismissed climate change as the "greatest con job ever perpetrated."

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she will press charges against a man who groped her. On a street near the National Palace in Mexico City, a man approached her from behind and attempted to kiss her on the neck and place his hands on her body. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. The 34-year-old will become the first Muslim mayor of the largest city in the U.S. @dwnews

Outside of the Brooklyn Paramount concert venue during Zohran Mamdani's speech:

This is the line for Zohran Mamdani's election watch party at Brooklyn Paramount now:

Montreal's next mayor Soraya Martínez Ferrada is originally from Santiago, Chile. "She and her family moved to Canada as political refugees in 1980 when she was only eight years old, fleeing the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford leaves the Mediterranean bound for U.S. Southern Command. news.usni.org/2025/11/04/u...

Former Vice President Cheney "was proved wrong on point after point in the Iraq War, without ever losing the conviction that he was essentially right. He alleged links between the 2001 attacks against the United States and prewar Iraq that didn't exist." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani casts his ballot at a polling site at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in Astoria, Queens. Via Kylie Cooper/Reuters.

President Trump again endorses Cuomo for mayor and threatens to pull federal funds from New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins.

Inmates at the infamous Punta Peuco high-security military prison in Chile, which houses the perpetrators of dictatorship-era human rights crimes, will lose their privileged conditions. @jwbartlett92.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

President Trump returned to the White House following his Mar-a-Lago weekend.

US strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific violate international human rights law, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk says, calling on the White House to "prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty looks delighted over the LEGO model of the Great Pyramid of Giza he got from his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen for the reopening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Who should be the next UN secretary-general for the five-year term starting in 2027? That's what PassBlue asked its readers. Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet "finished with a commanding victory, taking more than 29 percent of the vote," the results show.

Shutdown day 31: President Donald Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio attend a a Mar-a-Lago Halloween Party. The official theme is Gatsby and "A little party never killed nobody," the press is told. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta.

Ticket sales at the Trumpified Kennedy Center have absolutely fallen off a cliff, and it seems virtually certain donations have too. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Two federal judges ruled today that President Trump's administration must continue to pay for SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown. youtu.be/lZ8KFFFYSO4

"Millions of Americans will lose their SNAP benefits tomorrow. Kids are going to go hungry. Trump's focused on remodeling his bathroom," @thedemocratsmv.bsky.social write reacting to this post on President Trump's renovated Lincoln Bathroom.

El contexto que la agencia española EFE agregó en su artículo sobre las últimas declaraciones de Evelyn Matthei sobre el Plan Nacional de Búsqueda de Detenidos Desaparecidos:

Highly recommend this PBS documentary on the legacy of Henry Kissinger - with a long segment on the U.S. role in Chile's democratic collapse that set the stage for the 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet. youtu.be/uHb3-MfKeKA?...

President Trump instructs the Department of Defense to start testing U.S. nuclear weapons "because of other countries testing programs."

"The UN needs to exist, but needs to have results in an efficient and effective manner," Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean President and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says at the Paris Peace Forum. "The UN needs to be relevant so people can trust them."

Time flies! Two years ago today, I moved from Berlin to Washington, D.C. 🇩🇪🇺🇸

The UN General Assembly today adopted a resolution on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. 165 voted in favor, 7 against and 12 abstained.

British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council. Will we soon hear similar reports with German weapons exported to the UAE? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Meanwhile at the 17th Street Heel Race in Washington, D.C.

"Para ser viejo hay que ser valiente. No se puede ser cobarde." Héctor "Tito" Noguera Illanes. 1937-2025. Video por Media UC.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, ordered the military to carry out "powerful strikes" in Gaza immediately.

The United States carried out three strikes on four alleged drug-running boats in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 and leaving one survivor, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.

A Long Island woman who was stolen at birth under the Pinochet dictatorship was reunited with her biological mother. Kaitlin Saar's mother, Maria Paulina González, never forgot about her daughter, and ultimately found her through the help of a nonprofit. people.com/woman-41-sto...

Day 27 of the government shutdown. World Central Kitchen today started providing warm meals for furloughed federal employees in Washington, D.C.

"That house doesn't belong to him," Rep. @aoc.bsky.social says on President Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing for his ballroom. "It belongs to us, it belongs to the people of this country!"

Bernie Sanders joins Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Zohran Mamdani's "New York is Not for Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NYC.

"Tax the rich!" chants break out as Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at Zohran Mamdani's "New York is Not for Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley strongly condemned U.S. strikes in the Caribbean: "We do not accept that any entity has the right to engage in extrajudicial killings of persons that they suspect of being involved in criminal activities."

President Trump praised Bolsonaro in front of Brazilian President Lula: "I've always liked him. I feel very badly about what happened to him. I've always thought he was a straight shooter but he's been through a lot," per pooler.

The Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint against German-Israeli IDF soldier Shimon Avi Zuckerman, accusing him of committing: War crimes (§9 German Code of Crimes Against International Law), Crimes against humanity (§7 VStGB), and Genocide (§6 VStGB). www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/hrf-fi...

"The President of Colombia is a drug dealer," President Donald Trump told journalists ahead of his departure to Kuala Lumpur. Earlier today, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Colombian President Petro, accusing him of an expansion of drug trade.

The medical journal The Lancet has featured Chile's successful campaign in the prevention of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which primarily affects children under the age of two.

EE.UU. despliega en el Caribe su mayor portaaviones. En medio de tensiones con Venezuela, el Pentágono anunció hoy el despliegue en el mar Caribe del portaaviones USS Gerald Ford, el mayor de la flota estadounidense, y su grupo de ataque. www.dw.com/es/eeuu-desp...

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The United States imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, citing illicit drugs in a posting on the Treasury Department website.

U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its supporting warships to the U.S. Southern Command Area. "These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking," the Pentagon says.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.