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After sweeping Democratic victories in recent elections, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are taking no prisoners, demanding an immediate face-to-face meeting with President Trump to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. As Democrats push hard for action on funding and healthcare, the pressure on the White House is mounting, and the political showdown intensifies.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett called out the Trump administration's efforts to whitewash Black American history on social media. In a video posted to her official account on X, Crockett accused the Trump-aligned right of deliberately obscuring the country's history of racial injustice. "It seems like, there are certain people specifically on that side that anytime we want to discuss what has taken place as it relates to Black people and how they took our labour, how they took our lives, how they ruined families, they never want the truth to come out because it hurts their feelings," she said.

The US plans a military presence at a Syrian airbase to support a security pact between Syria and Israel, with President Donald Trump set to meet Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington D.C. on November 5, marking the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's re-election with a massive rally. Demonstrators assembled near the National Mall before marching toward the Capitol, holding signs and chanting calls for political change.

Nigeria's government rejected on Wednesday (November 5) its designation by the United States as a "country of particular concern'' over alleged religious freedom violations, saying the move was based on misinformation and faulty data. President Donald Trump last week put Nigeria back on a list of countries that the U.S. says have violated religious freedom, and said on Saturday he had asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible ''fast'' military action if Nigeria does not crack down on the killing of Christians. Washington's decision to designate Nigeria as a violator of religious freedoms has strained diplomatic ties between the two countries. Defending Nigeria's record, Information Minister Mohammed Idris told a press briefing that Trump's threats of military action were unwarranted and misrepresented Nigeria's complex security challenges.

Trump has alternative tariff strategies if the Supreme Court invalidates his import taxes, potentially reshaping U.S. trade policy.

The rally, organised by more than three dozen groups, including Refuse Fascism and the Handmaid Army DC, had been planned weeks in advance.