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Early Addition: Ivanka just wants to get this over with and go back to Florida

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Published Nov 8, 2023

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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where a GOP win in the Bronx appears to be the lone upset in yesterday's City Council elections.

Here's what else is happening:

• A Republican won the Suffolk County executive race for the first time in two decades.
• On the national level, yesterday was a big day for Democrats, with Kentucky re-electing a Democratic governor and Ohio voters passing a ballot measure to enshrine the right to an abortion in the state's constitution.
• Jewish schools in New York are hiring armed security guards.
• NYCHA has backed off its proposal to ban e-bikes in tenants' apartments — but is now seeking a limit of one e-bike per household.
• "This isn’t her first rodeo with this stuff... this is more of an annoying thing. She’ll do what she needs to do and go back to Miami": Today is Ivanka Trump's day to testify in her family's civil business fraud trial.
• Police in New Jersey are offering a $1,000 reward for information about a dead husky that was dumped in the woods in West Milford.
• They're making a live-action Zelda movie.
• Happy 100th birthday to the monkey bars.
• And finally, Hump Day — let's get it:

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