Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Wed Nov 5 2025

Nicole Fallert | Newsletter Writer

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Good morning!🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert. Would you ever live at Disney?

Quick look at Wednesday's news:

•	Democrats sweep.
•	A fiery Kentucky plane crash killed at least seven.
•	Neighbors are helping neighbors get food.

A good election night for Democrats

President Donald Trump received a rebuke as Democrats swept every major contest on Election Day, which they hope foretells a nationwide backlash to Republican control in Washington ahead of the pivotal 2026 midterm elections.

Read 2025 Election Day coverage from across the USA TODAY Network:

•	"Turn the volume up": Zohran Mamdani dared Trump to keep going after him after his New York City mayoral election victory.
•	Two Democratic women won governor races. New Jersey had record-setting turnout as Democrat Mikie Sherrill won and Abigail Spanberger became Virginia's first female governor with a historic margin of victory.
•	California passed Prop 50, a measure that boosts Democrats in the redistricting frenzy.
•	VP Vance's half-brother lost a challenge of Cincinnati's Democratic mayor.
•	Democrats in Georgia flipped two seats of the all-Republican, five-person Public Service Commission (PSC).
•	Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices kept their seats.
•	Mayors were reelected in Atlanta and Boston while Pittsburgh got a new mayor and Detroit will have its first woman mayor.
•	Pups at the polls: See photos of Election Day 2025 across the country.

New Yorkers celebrate as NY1 projects Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City mayoral election in the Queens borough of New York City on Tuesday.

Jeremy Weine, Getty Images

More news to know now

•	A blast of winter weather is headed for the East Coast.
•	TSA workers may be in a better position to ride out this shutdown than 2019's.
•	Dick Cheney had five heart attacks. Science helped him live until 84.
•	Miss Universe fired back at an exec who called a Mexican contestant "dumb."

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UPS plane crash leaves at least 7 dead

At least seven people were killed after a United Parcel Service cargo plane was involved in a "catastrophic crash" near Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said. The death toll is likely to grow, Beshear said late Tuesday. He added that first responders were on-site and "working hard to extinguish the fire and continue the investigation." Video footage of the crash appeared to show the plane taking off with fire on one wing.

This handout photo, courtesy of Levi Dean, shows smoke and flames rising from the site of a UPS cargo plane crash outside Louisville International Airport on Tuesday.

Courtesy of X account @LeviDean9 via Getty Images

What a judge said about a Chicago ICE facility

A federal judge reviewing conditions at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, called detainees' accounts of the facility "disturbing," "disgusting" and "unconstitutional." U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman's review comes in response to a lawsuit brought by detainees who said they were not allowed to contact attorneys, were coerced into signing deportation papers and were left in squalid conditions. "People sleeping shoulder to shoulder, next to overflowing toilets and human waste," the judge said.

Today's talkers

•	TikTokers discovered a Kid Cudi song from 17 years ago.
•	Kim Kardashian's "All's Fair" is the worst TV show of the year.
•	A trade deadline for the Jets was anything but quiet.
•	Jennifer Aniston's new boyfriend is a hypnotherapist.

Grocery buddies help SNAP recipients get food

'It really does have a neighbors helping neighbors feel. For the people who are buying the groceries, they can really see the tangible effect rather than just giving money to an organization. For the people receiving the groceries, they feel... 'My community has my back.''

~ Kelsey Strouse, 34, is among Americans signing up to be a grocery buddy and pay for food as SNAP recipients and others have lost their benefits during the government shutdown. People told USA TODAY they are connecting across the U.S. to help.

Photo of the day: Back to 'Zootopia'

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Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, left) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) are now partners in the police force and investigate a mysterious snake in Disney's animated sequel "Zootopia 2."

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