Claudia Sheinbaum is on track to become Mexico’s first female president, according to exit polls from Sunday’s election.
Polling data from the Enkoll firm indicates that Sheinbaum, the candidate from the ruling party, secured about 58 percent of the vote. Her main competitor, Xochitl Galvez, garnered around 29 percent.
The lone male contender, centrist Jorge Alvarez Maynez, received approximately 11 percent of the vote, according to the same source.
Sheinbaum’s victory would make her not only the first female president of Mexico but also its first Jewish president.
Previously, Sheinbaum was Mexico City’s first Jewish Mayor, a position she held from 2018 until she stepped down last June to pursue leadership within the ruling party.

The IDF and Border Police canceled a planned entry of Jewish mispallelim to Kever Yosef in Shechem after a group of mispallelim entered the city on their own overnight Monday. Shechem, a known terror hotspot, is unsafe to enter at the best of times and even more so during the current tense security situation throughout the country. One of the mispallelim was attacked by Arabs who almost lynched him. He ran away and hid overnight and was rescued in the morning by the Palestinian police who transferred him to IDF forces. He received emergency medical treatment and was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah for further treatment.

With one trial down, Donald Trump’s legal future remains a jumble of uncertainty.
Just months ago, it looked like Trump could be bouncing from courthouse to courthouse in the final months before the presidential election, with multiple criminal cases scheduled to go to trial.
Now, after a guilty verdict in the New York hush money case, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is a felon awaiting sentencing. But none of the three other criminal cases against him have trial dates – and it’s unclear when or if any of them will go before a jury.

In a chaotic overnight incident in Queens, two police officers were shot, and a suspect was wounded, according to authorities. The officers were investigating a series of robberies involving mopeds and scooters in East Elmhurst when they attempted to stop a person riding a moped the wrong way near 23rd Avenue and 82nd Street. The suspect fled on foot. The officers pursued him for several blocks, and during the chase, the suspect fired at them, NYPD officials reported. One officer was struck in his bulletproof vest, while the other was hit in the leg. Both officers were transported to a hospital and are expected to be released later Monday. The suspect, identified as a 19-year-old Bernardo Castro Mata, who resides at a nearby migrant shelter, was shot in the right ankle.

The Israel Defense Forces’ Spokesperson’s Unit has released video footage of a drone entering a home in Rafah and finding it booby-trapped with large explosive barrels, one of which was placed next to a door.
In its war against Hamas, the IDF has faced the formidable challenge of operating in an environment where a significant percentage of buildings and homes in the Gaza Strip are filled with weapons.

While the exact proportion of buildings scanned by the IDF and found to have contained weapons isn’t known, it is considered very high according to estimates within the Israeli defense establishment.

Reports of a rare nervous system disorder were “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday that’s similar to what the organization said earlier this year. Government officials still say the benefits of the shots still outweigh the risks. The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they’re evaluating any risks, but do not plan to change their recommendation for the RSV shots, which is that patients 60 and older should talk to their doctor and then decide whether to be vaccinated.