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California voters approve Democratic-drawn congressional map as national redistricting battle spreads

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California voters have approved a new congressional map drawn by state Democrats, NBC News projects, giving the party the chance to gain up to five House seats in next year’s midterm elections and counter Republican redistricting efforts in other states



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Nov. 4, 2025, 9:32 PM EST / Updated Nov. 4, 2025, 10:49 PM ESTBy Allan SmithZohran Mamdani has won New York’s mayoral race, NBC News projects, after the 34-year-old democratic socialist energized progressives in the city and across the country while generating intense backlash from President Donald Trump and Republicans, as well as some Democratic moderates.Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, on Tuesday handily defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who ran as a third-party candidate after having lost the Democratic primary — and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Mayor Eric Adams, who mounted a third-party campaign for re-election after he won as a Democrat in 2021, dropped out of the race in September and endorsed Cuomo last month.Follow the election live hereThe victory caps a meteoric rise through New York politics for Mamdani since he launched his campaign roughly one year ago, transforming him from a virtually unknown state assemblyman who barely registered in polling to the incoming leader of America’s largest city. Along the way, he pushed aside the heir to one of New York’s most iconic political dynasties not once but twice within five months.Now a nationally known political figure, Mamdani will attempt to enact the sweeping policy platform that inspired his supporters while managing an enormous municipal bureaucracy — and influencing national politics, as one of the most prominent democratic socialists and Democrats in the country. Among other goals, Mamdani wants to freeze rent on rent-stabilized units, enact universal child care, create a free bus program and launch city-run grocery stores.“It is tempting to believe that this moment was always destined,” Mamdani said before thousands at a rally in Queens late last month, before he noted that when he started his campaign, “there was not a single television camera there to cover it.”“Four months later and as recently as this February, our support had reached eye-watering heights of 1%,” Mamdani continued. “We were tied with noted candidate ‘someone else.’”Mamdani’s victory is sure to reverberate not just throughout New York City but around the nation.In New York, Mamdani’s next challenge will be the tall task of uniting leaders in Albany and on the City Council — many of whom were not eager to line up behind him — to advance his ambitious agenda.Nationally, many Democrats will examine his rise from obscurity, his successful messaging on social media and his focus on affordability for clues about how to navigate their own races.Meanwhile, Republicans are eager to turn Mamdani’s left-wing platform into a wedge issue in competitive races far beyond New York City’s borders.Zohran Mamdani speaking at his campaign office on Oct. 30, 2025 in New York.Laurel Golio for NBC NewsNBC News exit polling found that Mamdani won across racial demographics — with white, Black, Latino, Asian and voters of other races all backing his candidacy over Cuomo’s and Sliwa’s.Younger voters overwhelmingly backed Mamdani, with NBC News exit polling showing that voters under 45 years old favored him over Cuomo by 43 points. Voters over 45, meanwhile, backed Cuomo by a 10-point margin.Education played a big role, too, the exit polling showed. And one of the biggest divides in the election was between New Yorkers who were born in the city and those who had moved to New York within the last 10 years.Meanwhile, with Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian activism having become a key issue in the race, NBC News exit polling found that Jewish voters favored Cuomo over Mamdani by 29 points, 60% to 31%.Speaking to supporters after his defeat on Tuesday, Cuomo thanked Adams, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former New York Gov. David Paterson for their support. He called voters at his election eve party “New York patriots.”“This campaign was the right fight to wage,” Cuomo said. “And I am proud of what we did and what we did together. This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic Party, the future of this city and the future of this country. And this coalition transcended normal partisan politics.”The closing weeks of the race turned into a brawl between Mamdani and Cuomo, the onetime front-runner who spent the general election trying to play catch-up. The two had heated debates in recent weeks, with Cuomo calling Mamdani a “divisive force in New York” while Mamdani painted Cuomo as Trump’s “puppet.”Trump made a late jump into the race Monday night, endorsing Cuomo on social media and saying a vote for Sliwa, the Republican nominee, was essentially a vote for Mamdani in the split general election field.Interestingly, exit polling showed self-identified Republicans favored Cuomo over Sliwa, with 61% of Republicans him while just 35% backed Sliwa.Late last month, Mamdani delivered an emotional address condemning what he slammed as “racist, baseless” attacks he has faced for his Muslim faith. He will be the first Muslim mayor in New York City history. His unapologetically pro-Palestinian stance energized progressives who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza, as pro-Israel Democrats and donors grew anxious about his rise.At a rally alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., days later, Mamdani said Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa possess only “the playbook of the past.”“They have sought to make this election a referendum not on the affordability crisis that consumes New Yorkers’ lives,” he said, “but on the faith I belong to and the hatred they seem to normalize.”Allan SmithAllan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.
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Nov. 27, 2025, 5:04 AM ESTBy Kathy Park and Jackie MontalvoOn Thanksgiving, turkeys are usually a comfort food and the main attraction at the dinner table. But on one farm just outside Nashville, Tennessee, the birds offer a different kind of comfort — cuddle therapy. “You can get on the ground in front of them, and you can scootch up real close so they’re right here,” Ellie Laks, founder of the Gentle Barn, said as she sat down in front of a turkey named Serena. “Then you can kiss their fuzzy pink heads and just pet them and talk to them.”The act of cuddling a turkey is just like it sounds: It’s a chance to slow down, sit with a turkey and gobble up a connection you might not expect.“The majority of people who come to the Gentle Barn and cuddle a turkey for the first time burst into tears because they’re so surprised at their unexpected show of affection,” Laks said. She founded the original Gentle Barn in 1999 in California’s San Fernando Valley, a lifelong dream come true. In 2015, she opened a second location in Tennessee with her husband.“It was all because of a cow named Dudley. He was here in Nashville, lost a foot because of an accident, hobbling around in tremendous pain, and the rancher could only do so much,” Laks said. On Thursday, the Gentle Barn is hosting a “Gentle Thanksgiving,” a day dedicated to connecting and cuddling with turkeys.NBC News“A friend of his reached out to 200 sanctuaries to see if someone could take him in, and no one was able to, so she called us all the way in California and said, ‘I know you’re far away. I don’t know what to do. Can you at least give me advice?’”Instead, Laks and her husband flew to Dudley and helped find him a bovine surgeon and a prosthetic foot.They brought him to UT Knoxville for amputations, surgeries, acupuncture and underwater treadmill therapy. When it was time for him to be discharged, Laks said, “we didn’t want to drive him all the way to California, so we opened a location here.”Now, the Gentle Barn has more than 200 rescue animals from turkeys and chickens to sheep, cows, and goats. Over the last 26 years, it has welcomed more 1 million visitors, many coming for turkey cuddle therapy.In addition to school field trips and private tours, the barn offers therapeutic sessions. “It was always my dream to be able to help animals and then partner with them to heal and help hurting humans,” Laks said.Volunteer Nicole Downs had never been on a farm before visiting the Gentle Barn. “My first experiences here were with chicken cuddling, and I fell in love with the chickens,” said Downs. “It was a natural progression then to want to cuddle with the turkeys.” Laks hopes visitors will see that underneath it all, we’re all the same.NBC NewsThe volunteer is now a weekly visitor and says these cuddle sessions have been a game-changer in helping her manage her anxiety.“It has become my kind of go-to grounding space for if I’m having an anxiety attack,” said Downs. “We have so many things available to us now that we can put in our toolkit, but this is by far the best.”“It’s therapy that you didn’t know you needed until you do it, and then you’re like, Where was this all fof my life?” she said.Laks said the farm is a sanctuary for animals and people alike. “As depression and anxiety come to an all time rise, I would invite people to come out to the gentle barn and find the love and nurturing here,” she said. “We need each other, and we need the animals, and they’re here for us.”On Thursday, the Gentle Barn is hosting a “Gentle Thanksgiving,” a day dedicated to connecting and cuddling with turkeys.Laks hopes visitors will see that underneath it all, we’re all the same. “There’s just so much unconditional love and gentleness, and I don’t know, there’s not a lot of that in the world today, so sometimes you have to get it from a turkey.”Kathy ParkKathy Park is a correspondent for NBC News.Jackie MontalvoJackie Montalvo is a producer-editor for NBC News.
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