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Senator Bernie Sanders administered the public oath on the steps of City Hall, hours after Attorney General Letitia James swore Mamdani in at 12:01 a.m. in the disused City Hall subway station. He is the city's first Muslim mayor and the first of South Asian descent.

The base subway, local bus and Access-A-Ride fare rose 10 cents to $3 and the express bus fare to $7.25, while OMNY's weekly fare cap of $35 became permanent in place of MetroCard unlimited passes.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

Vuori filed a trademark suit in Miami federal court against the anonymous owners of 24 look-alike web shops such as vuoriclothing-outlets.shop and vuoriactivewear.com, seeking to freeze and seize them.

At CES 2026 Qualcomm added the Snapdragon X2 Plus to its PC line, a 3 nm chip with up to 10 Oryon cores and an 80 TOPS NPU that brings X2-series performance and multi-day battery life to lower-priced Copilot+ laptops from the first half of 2026.

A second Jisoo-designed edition of Alo's Sunset Sneaker, in a neutral caramel suede she picked, went on sale for $275.

Johnson & Johnson signed a voluntary most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreement with the Trump administration, selling medicines through TrumpRx.gov and to Medicaid at prices comparable to other developed countries in exchange for an exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs, and announced two new US plants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

Babcock & Wilcox chose Siemens Energy to supply the steam turbine generator sets for its one-gigawatt Applied Digital power project, under a limited notice to proceed it said would let it deliver power by the end of 2028.

MAPPA's third season of Jujutsu Kaisen begins airing, opening the Culling Game arc as Yuji Itadori, wary of returning to Jujutsu High, teams with Choso against cursed spirits unleashed by Noritoshi Kamo across Japan.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

Nike shut its decade-old SoHo flagship at 529 Broadway after IKEA owner Ingka Investments bought the building, ending a ten-year run in the roughly 55,000-square-foot property.

Alo hires Benedetta Petruzzo, managing director of Christian Dior Couture and earlier CEO of Miu Miu, into a new role running its business outside the US alongside co-CEOs Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.