Gen Z and diversity reshape US politics in groundbreaking election

Nithya Raman has won the Los Angeles mayoral election, making her the first South Asian American and the first woman of color to lead the city, according to Al Jazeera. Her victory in the United States' second-largest city hands a prominent national platform to a progressive politician. The result is likely to shape debates over housing, homelessness and policing far beyond California.

Google, Meta, and TikTok sued California to block a law intended to protect children from social media addiction risks. The case tests how far states can regulate platform design and could shape child-safety rules nationwide.

California Governor Gavin Newsom commuted the death sentences of all 548 people on the state’s death row, according to the BBC, with The Guardian reporting more than 500 commutations. The sweeping move spares those inmates from execution but does not free them, and it intensifies the national debate over capital punishment in the most populous US state.

AI-related stocks fell sharply after the US election, pulling broader markets down. The selloff reflects investor concern over the sector’s outlook and wider market sentiment. It matters because steep tech-led declines can affect portfolios and global market confidence.

Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem Daily program reported on what it described as settler pogroms in Hebron. The segment focuses on violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city. The issue matters because settler violence is a major flashpoint in Israeli-Palestinian tensions.