Reporter: Elise Stefanik has campaigned on calling Mamdani a jihadist. Do you think you’re standing next to a jihadist?

Trump: No...

Trump on Truth Social:

It was a Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!

Meanwhile, in Venezuela, Maduro is having the time of his life.

Trump:

I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will resign from Congress on Jan. 5.

Pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang led an anti-Muslim hate march in Dearborn, Michigan, where he taunted locals with racist stunts and threatened to burn the Quran.

A counterprotester slipped into the crowd and punched him in the face.

JD Vance comments on the Ukraine-Russia war.

Sudan: The army has reportedly launched heavy assaults west of El-Obeid along the Abu Kud and Umm Samima axes.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme have warned that Sudan is currently experiencing the world’s largest hunger crisis.

An Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle on the Zawtar al-Sharqiya road in southern Lebanon killed one person.

Source: Al Jazeera

China told the UN that Japan’s Taiwan remarks amount to a threat of armed intervention.

Beijing warned it will use self-defence after PM Takaichi suggested a Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a Japanese military response.

Zohran Mamdani, standing next to Trump:

I have spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and our government funding it.

The US is pressuring Ukraine to accept a US–Russia peace plan by Thursday, with American envoys in Kyiv telling European diplomats there is “little room to negotiate” and that Zelensky must sign soon.

At a tense meeting in Kyiv, US officials — including army secretary Daniel Driscoll — said Ukraine is in a “very bad position” militarily and that now is the “best time for peace”.

Their tone shocked European ambassadors, who fear the plan amounts to a capitulation to Moscow.

Source: FT

Trump believes that Zelensky is bluffing and trying to secure a more favorable deal despite being in a losing position.

Source: The Times

315 students and teachers were reported kidnapped from a school in Nigeria.

Source: AFP

A RIDICULOUS ACCUSATION FROM NETANYAHU

Netanyahu—who himself invaded southern Syria—has accused Türkiye of trying to invade the same region.

It seems like the desperate deflection of a genocider responsible for atrocities, scrambling to shift the blame.

Europe is scrambling to buy Ukraine more time after the US set a hard deadline for Kyiv to accept a controversial peace plan.

Leaders in France, Germany, and across the EU are urgently coordinating to rewrite large parts of the proposal without openly defying Washington.

German Chancellor Merz rushed to call Trump and push for more negotiations, while EU leaders plan to meet on the G-20 sidelines to craft a unified response.

Source: Bloomberg

Anti-drone nets in Ukraine could not withstand the first snowfall and began collapsing together with their supports.

Even Nigel Farage is against Witkoff’s peace plan for Ukraine.

NEW: The U.S. and China held maritime security talks in Hawaii (Nov 18–20) — their first working-level meeting since April — as they work to restore military communication amid ongoing tensions.

Source: Reuters

Alexander Lukashenko, under arrangements reached with Trump, has pardoned 31 Ukrainian citizens.