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Donna Lee Gordon, a U.S. tourist visiting Jamaica, spoke with NBC News’ Kate Snow about her experience sheltering from Hurricane Melissa in Kingston, Jamaica. 



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Oct. 28, 2025, 5:30 PM EDTBy The Politics DeskWelcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.In today’s edition, Steve Kornacki explores how Andrew Cuomo could close the gap with Zohran Mamdani in the final week of the NYC mayoral race. Plus, Ben Kamisar digs into how Republicans are shifting more of their ad money down ballot in Virginia. Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.— Adam WollnerWhat Cuomo’s narrow path to a NYC comeback would look likeAnalysis by Steve KornackiThe New York City mayoral election may not be a done deal for Zohran Mamdani. The Democratic nominee has enjoyed sizable leads in polling and benefitted from an opposition that’s been divided among multiple rival candidates. And he remains the favorite to win next Tuesday.But there are signs Mamdani has not put the race away yet, chief among them a new Suffolk University poll that shows his lead over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo slipping to 10 points — half of what it was when the same pollster surveyed voters last month. That tightening comes after Mayor Eric Adams dropped his own re-election bid a few weeks ago, with much of his support now moving to Cuomo.Overall, Mamdani leads with 44% support, with Cuomo at 34% and Republican Curtis Sliwa at 11%, according to the new Suffolk poll. That Mamdani’s support level remains under 50% four months after winning the Democratic nomination suggests some real resistance to his candidacy and leaves him vulnerable to any further consolidation of the opposition. Half of Cuomo’s support, the poll finds, is from voters who say they are simply voting against Mamdani. Sliwa remains adamant that he won’t leave the race, and obviously the more support he retains, the safer Mamdani’s position will be. But there’s risk for Mamdani, a democratic socialist, in the volatility of this final week. The volume of attacks is louder, public scrutiny is heightened, and far more New Yorkers are tuned in to absorb it. Reservations about Mamdani that already exist can be reinforced and new ones can be sown. In this atmosphere, the danger for Mamdani is that voters recognize Cuomo as the only viable alternative and essentially do the consolidating themselves — that is, they shun Sliwa, hold their noses, and check off Cuomo’s name. Extrapolating from pre-Election Day voting data can lead to deceptive conclusions, but it’s at least worth noting that the first few days of early voting in New York City have so far yielded an electorate that is older and broader than what was seen in the June Democratic primary. Any chance for Cuomo depends on this becoming a reality. In the Suffolk poll, he leads with voters over 45 years old and gets clobbered among those under 45. Cuomo himself remains a highly imperfect vehicle for the opposition to Mamdani. He continues to be unpopular, with an upside down 42%/47% favorable rating. If this election is a referendum on him, he will lose, easily. And if he wins, it will be in spite of himself — and only because just enough voters ended up having even deeper reservations about his opponent. Virginia Republicans are spending more on the race for attorney general than for governorBy Ben KamisarIn states with high-profile governor’s races, candidates further down the ballot typically rely on the top of the ticket for a boost.But in Virginia, that dynamic has been flipped on its head in the closing stretch of this year’s campaign, at least on the airwaves. Republicans have spent more on TV ads in recent weeks on the race for attorney general — where past violent text messages by the Democratic nominee have roiled the race — than the higher-profile contest for governor, where the GOP candidate is the underdog. The bulk of Republicans’ ad spending in these two races in the state, where campaign finance rules allow outside groups to donate directly to candidates, have come from Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the gubernatorial nominee, and Attorney General Jason Miyares.According to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, Earle-Sears’ campaign spent more than $8.1 million on ads in September, compared to about $5.5 million from the Miyares camp. But those numbers flipped in October — $10.2 million from Miyares and $7.5 million from Earle-Sears.A week-by-week analysis of the ad spending in Virginia underscores how GOP spending has jumped in the attorney general’s race in the final month, as Democratic nominee Jay Jones has faced criticism for suggesting in private text messages three years ago that the then-Republican speaker of the state House get “two bullets to the head.”Recent public polling has shown Earle-Sears trailing Spanberger by anywhere from 7 to 12 percentage points, while finding that the two attorney general candidates are locked in a dead heat. Read more from Ben →🗞️ Today’s other top stories🌍 Ceasefire teeters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “powerful” airstrikes on Gaza, imperiling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Read more →➡️ More strikes: The U.S. military carried out three strikes on four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean that were allegedly trafficking narcotics, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Read more →🇺🇦 Ukraine war update: A recent U.S. intelligence assessment warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is more determined than ever to carry on the war in Ukraine and prevail on the battlefield. Read more →⛔ Shutdown, Day 28: Democratic leaders from 25 states sued the Agriculture Department over the looming suspension of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with benefits expected to run dry across the country this weekend. Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., ripped into her party’s shutdown strategy during a heated conference call. 📈 Deportation agenda: The Trump administration is planning to replace some regional ICE leaders with Border Patrol officials in an attempt to intensify its mass deportations effort amid growing frustration with the pace of daily arrests. Read more →📝 The autopen is mightier: The Republican-led House Oversight Committee asserted in a report that some executive actions that then-President Joe Biden signed by autopen, including his pardons, were “illegitimate.” Read more →⚖️ In the courts: Trump’s lawyers have formally appealed his criminal conviction in New York on charges of falsifying business records, saying the case against the president was improperly based on “manufactured felony charges.” Read more →🗳️ Sprint to November: California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the state will dispatch its own observers to monitor federal election watchers deployed by the Trump administration. Read more →💻 AI watch: Two senators announced bipartisan legislation to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors. Read more →Follow live politics updates →That’s all From the Politics Desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner.If you have feedback — likes or dislikes — email us at politicsnewsletter@nbcuni.comAnd if you’re a fan, please share with everyone and anyone. They can sign up here. The Politics Desk    
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Nov. 16, 2025, 7:40 AM ESTBy Minyvonne Burke and Daniel ArkinAshley Rodolph, a 26-year-old mother who lives in Texas, started buying ByHeart infant formula because she believed it was a safer, cleaner alternative to other baby products on the market.But that assumption was dramatically upended this month. Rodolph learned that ByHeart was recalling its powdered formula because it is likely tied to an infant botulism outbreak that has sickened more than a dozen babies. She panicked, hoping the formula she’s been feeding her daughter for the past three months was not from a defective can.“I don’t know if we’ve had those cans or not, and that was pretty terrifying to think about,” she said in a phone interview on Friday. “When you’re feeding your baby formula, you don’t think to keep the cans just in case of a recall.”Ashley Rodolph and her daughter Saphira.Courtesy Ashley RodolphRodolph and her husband stopped using the formula on Nov. 9, a day after the product was pulled from store shelves and online merchants amid an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration. She’s been advised by the family’s pediatrician to monitor her daughter Saphira for the emergence of symptoms.“You look at your baby and you see them being totally fine, and then you question yourself like: What if they’re not? What if they’re showing symptoms and I just don’t know what they are? What if tomorrow she’s not OK?” Rodolph said. “It’s an absolutely terrifying situation.”Rodolph is one of the many parents across the country who are deeply rattled by the botulism outbreak. As of Friday, 23 cases had been reported across 13 states, according to the FDA. No deaths have been reported to date, the agency said.In a fact sheet, the FDA said most children with infant botulism will initially develop constipation, poor feeding, loss of head control and difficulty swallowing. The symptoms can grow more serious: difficulty breathing, respiratory arrest.The symptoms take as long as several weeks to appear, the FDA said. If untreated, the infection can lead to paralysis and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.ByHeart originally said it would recall two lots of the organic Whole Nutrition Infant Formula after the FDA announced it was investigating the outbreak’s links to the product. ByHeart then widened the recall last week to include all batches of the formula.“The safety and well-being of every infant who uses our formula is, and always will be, our highest priority,” ByHeart’s co-founder and president, Mia Funt, said in a statement.“This nationwide recall reflects our commitment to protecting babies and giving families clear, actionable information. Alongside this recall, we are conducting a comprehensive investigation to do our part to get the answers parents expect and deserve.”Summer Besecke, a 25-year-old mother from Longview, Texas, said she was feeding her son Syrus when she learned via email that the formula she was using had been recalled.Summer Besecke’s son Syrus was hospitalized for two days with symptoms.Summer Besecke“I yanked the bottle out of his mouth, and I started crying,” Besecke said. “At first, I didn’t know what botulism was, so I was concerned, and my heart kind of dropped.” She went online and did some research. “Instead of my heart dropping, it was more like a hole burning in my chest because I’m literally actively feeding my child this.”Besecke then noticed troubling symptoms. The 6-week-old became constipated. He had trouble lifting his head. He was “a little more limp than usual,” she said.Syrus spent two days in the hospital before he was released on Thursday, according to his mother. Besecke and her husband are now waiting for test results to determine if their son has botulism.“It’s been so much worry,” she said. “I’m supposed to be cherishing these moments, and I was robbed of that.” Summer Besecke’s son Syrus. Summer BeseckeByHeart faces at least two lawsuits from parents who say their babies were sickened and allege the company was negligent in selling “defective” formula. The families are seeking financial compensation for medical bills, emotional distress and other harm.Yurany and Stephen Dexter of Arizona, the plaintiffs behind one of the suits, said their 4-month-old daughter Rose started to seem sick in August. She appeared weak and listless, her eyelids half-open.“I just remember her lying there with her arms folded over her chest, being really quiet, refusing her bottle,” Stephen Dexter said in an interview.Yurany and Stephen Dexter with their daughter, Rose.Courtesy Yurany and Stephen Dexter.The lawsuit says Rose ultimately needed to be flown by air ambulance to a children’s hospital in Phoenix — two hours away from their home in Flagstaff. She was treated there for about two weeks, her father said.The Dexters believe ByHeart should face consequences.“You’ve chosen to be in a position of providing a product that is directly marketed towards a group of people that are, by definition, helpless,” Stephen Dexter said. “If you’re not doing 110% to make sure the product you’re selling is absolutely pure, then we’ve got a problem.”Minyvonne BurkeMinyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.Daniel ArkinDaniel Arkin is a senior reporter at NBC News.
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