Welcome to our coverage of world events and the fallout from the US midterm elections.
The construction of US President Donald Trump’s famous ‘Arc De Trump’ has been temporarily blocked after an hours long debate with community members who oppose the operation.
This article covers world news on Friday (Australia time). For Saturday’s live updates, click here.
New Zealand is bracing for one of the tightest elections in recent years as the National and Labour parties battle against a one per cent difference, a recent poll finds.
Louisiana Senator David Cassidy has fuelled rumours that Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth may lose his job, calling US intervention in the Iran war “a mistake”.
One of America’s most prominent Democrats, California Governor Gavin Newsom, has also dropped a post-midterms bombshell, announcing that he’ll commute the sentences of everyone on his state’s death row – 548 people in total.
Meanwhile Tucker Carlson, a popular broadcaster and one of Mr Trump’s former media allies, has declared “this is the end of the Trump era” in the wake of the midterm results.
Read on for more updates from Friday.
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