Israel’s Central Elections Committee says it reviewed all party complaints and found no evidence of election irregularities.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Authoritarian political leaders are trying to divide the world among themselves.

We must ensure that we remain a country where we can live together freely and peacefully.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We want to become Europe's leading modern AI country by 2030. We are following that path, and we will achieve that goal.

We are looking for partners not just in Europe, but around the world, partners who will accompany us on this path.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

In Germany, we were always more likely to agree on everything we wanted to close and everything we wanted to end.

Nuclear energy, airports. We always agreed on everything we no longer wanted.

But we rarely agreed on what we actually wanted and what we needed to do.

And that is the mindset I am trying to change with the federal government.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We had BioNTech, an extraordinarily successful company that became truly large through coronavirus research and vaccine development.

This is a company that was developed in Germany with German support and achieved extraordinary success.

But when that company went to the capital markets, it did not go to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris or Madrid.

It went to New York, to Nasdaq.

And that is something I no longer want to see in the future.

Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 28 votes in Mississippi’s Senate race, with nearly all ballots counted.

U.S. election results show a nationwide shift toward Democrats, averaging 16 percentage points in counties with nearly complete counts, compared with a five-point shift toward Republicans in 2024.

Even in states Democrats lost, Tennessee and Kentucky each shifted 18 points toward Democrats.

Source: NYT

BREAKING: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed beats Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race.

El-Sayed won despite a last-minute blow: Rep. Haley Stevens, whom he beat in the Democratic primary, endorsed Rogers two days before the vote.

Abdul El-Sayed:

They wanted America that's too small for some of us. We know that America is big enough for all of us.

Abdul El-Sayed:

The bad guys lost.

Abdul El-Sayed to JD Vance:

JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.

Abdul El-Sayed to Trump:

Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. So after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.

Abdul El-Sayed:

They try to call you hateful if you believe that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the land of their forefathers without being murdered by our tax dollars.

If you believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, that's not hate. It's love.

Michiganders, we want our taxes spent here.

Abdul El-Sayed:

We want our taxes spent here, for schools here, and healthcare here, and infrastructure here.

We don't want our money sent to do apartheid, or genocide, or war.

Elon Musk:

Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now

Abdul El-Sayed:

To AIPAC, who spent $42 million against us: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice.

Abdul El-Sayed:

I am so proud and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from the great state of Michigan.

Up until right about now, you might have noticed I always say "inshallah," or "God willing," whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned.

But today, tonight, we can turn that "inshallah" into an "alhamdulillah."

This is for the right-wing ops. That just means "praise be to God."

German Foreign Minister Wadephul on Iran:

The cause of this conflict is, of course, an Iran that is preparing to acquire nuclear weapons, an Iran that supports militias in many neighboring countries that do not respect the sovereignty of those states.

Iran is not behaving harmlessly or in a friendly manner. Iran gives every reason for others to respond to it, unfortunately also militarily, and to defend themselves.

German Foreign Minister Wadephul:

Military action there will not bring about regime change, nor will it liberate the Iranian people.

Such liberation would be desirable, because the regime there is terrible. It tortures people, kills people, imprisons people and carries out executions in very large numbers.

But the change that we would like to see cannot be brought about militarily. It can only develop from within Iran itself.

Q: But you know how determined Benjamin Netanyahu is to continue military action against Iran.

German FM Wadephul: He has not made any statements in which he definitively said that he wants an attack. He has not said that.

German Foreign Minister Wadephul:

We have a special responsibility toward the State of Israel, ultimately a place of refuge for Jewish people.

That is part of German history and German responsibility, and I stand by that.

The Iranian foreign minister accepts that as well. He doesn't like it because he has a completely opposite objective, but he accepts it.