Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist who has faced sharp attacks from President Donald Trump, has been elected mayor of Washington, DC.

The 38-year-old DC councilmember dominated Tuesday’s mayoral contest, winning just over 84 percent of the vote. She defeated Green Party candidate Robert Gross and independent contender Rhonda Hamilton.

Her victory places her among a growing group of democratic socialist mayors that includes Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Katie Wilson in Seattle.

The result came as Democrats also made gains in federal races nationwide during what was described as a midterm blue wave.

“Washington DC, thank you for trusting this Daughter of the District to lead us!” Lewis George wrote on X after her victory was declared.

Trump had criticized Lewis George following her June primary win, labeling her a “communist” and accusing her of supporting policies he claimed would damage the nation’s capital.

“Janeese Lewis George, the Communist who is almost certainly going to be elected Mayor of Washington, D.C., has stated that she wants to empty the prisons, make D.C. a Sanctuary City, oppose ICE, welcome Criminal Illegal Aliens back into our beloved Capital, resist Anti-Crime Crackdowns, Defund the Police, continue and expand Cashless Bail, and so many other Capital destroying ‘things,’” the president wrote.

Trump said those plans would fail and vowed not to allow them to undermine the progress he believed had been made in reducing crime and improving Washington’s appearance.

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George, 38, has won the Washington, DC, mayoral election and is shown celebrating on election night

Lewis George secured more than 84 percent of the vote, becoming part of a rising group of democratic socialist mayors

Trump described Lewis George as a “communist” after she won the Democratic mayoral primary in June

Trump also said he would meet with Lewis George, while warning that Washington had once again become a safe and prestigious community.

He credited himself and others with helping achieve that status and said he would not allow the city to be damaged by what he called a communist agenda.

Lewis George’s campaign focused on making life more affordable, limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Washington and protecting the District’s independence from federal interference.

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Her campaign website said she would personally work with members of Congress from both parties to defend DC’s autonomy and advance the cause of DC statehood.

Lewis George will succeed current Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat who has led the city since 2015. Bowser announced last year that she would not seek another term.

During Trump’s second term, Bowser has tried to balance resistance to the president with cooperation where she believes it benefits Washington. Lewis George criticized that strategy and made confronting Trump a central theme of her campaign.

Despite their political differences, Bowser and the mayor-elect exchanged warm messages after the election.

“Good morning DC. This is what the other side looks like,” Bowser wrote in a post on X.

Lewis George will succeed Muriel Bowser, who has served as DC mayor since 2015 and said last year that she would not run for reelection

Her campaign emphasized affordability, curbing ICE activity and preserving DC’s independence from federal control; she is pictured greeting a supporter on election day

Bowser said the city had fulfilled its promise to protect Home Rule and elect new leaders. She congratulated Lewis George, pledged to support an orderly transition and added that she loved Washington.

Lewis George thanked Bowser for her service and said she looked forward to working with the outgoing mayor and her team to ensure a smooth handover.

In a statement to FOX 5 DC, Lewis George outlined how she planned to approach the federal government, saying the people of Washington elect their own mayor. She said she was prepared to cooperate with the administration when that served District residents, but would also challenge it when necessary.

She said one of her administration’s early priorities would be a forensic review of every District agency.

The review would examine government savings, spending, possible fraud, abuse and mismanagement, she said, with the goal of strengthening public confidence in how taxpayer money is handled.

The Daily Mail has contacted Lewis George’s campaign seeking additional comment and a response to Trump’s criticism.

NASA’s aging Swift space telescope is expected to make an uncontrolled return through Earth’s atmosphere within the next few hours.

The 3,200-pound Swift Observatory launched in 2004 to investigate gamma-ray bursts—the universe’s most powerful explosions—as well as other extraordinary cosmic objects and events.

The mission was originally designed to operate for just two years.

Instead, Swift completed 21 years of scientific observations before rising solar activity caused its low-Earth orbit to deteriorate rapidly.

The latest forecasts indicate that Swift could reenter the atmosphere sometime on Wednesday.

“Re-entry locations of any surviving components can vary from hemisphere to hemisphere and depend on when it re-enters,” NASA said in a statement.

An updated tracking map shows possible reentry paths crossing parts of Central and South America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. The projected routes also extend across large areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.

The map cannot identify the precise point where debris might land. That location will depend on the exact moment Swift enters the atmosphere and begins to break apart.

The yellow and blue lines show the telescope’s repeated orbits around Earth. They do not indicate the exact location where any surviving debris will fall.

John Nousek, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University who worked on the mission, told AP: “We’ve known this day would come since before Swift was launched.

“At least in low-Earth orbit, what goes up must come down. And that end is catastrophic.”

NASA said any surviving fragments could land within a broad belt around the equator, stretching across parts of Latin America, Africa, southern Asia and northern Australia.

That projection places the United States and Europe outside the potential debris zone.

Swift’s impending reentry comes after NASA’s unsuccessful effort to save the observatory in August.

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The agency had committed $30 million to a mission intended to send another spacecraft to Swift, raise its orbit and prevent an uncontrolled fall to Earth.

The rescue spacecraft, known as Link, began spinning uncontrollably several weeks after launching in early July.

Flight controllers were able to reduce Link’s spin, but problems with its orientation and ability to hold its position in orbit persisted.

Current forecasts suggest that Swift will reenter Earth’s atmosphere sometime on Wednesday.

Swift Observatory recorded the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst. The bright rings are X-rays scattered by layers of dust in our galaxy. Several space- and ground-based telescopes observed the exceptionally bright explosion as it reached Earth.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement: “This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting.”

Swift returned to observing the universe after the rescue mission was abandoned, detecting additional gamma-ray bursts and other ultrahigh-energy events. By late October, however, the observatory had dropped too low to maintain stable scientific observations, and its systems were switched off.

During its mission, Swift detected more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and 1,400 exploding stars, along with numerous comets, asteroids and black holes tearing apart stars.

The telescope’s defining strength was its ability to turn rapidly toward sudden eruptions and other transient events in the sky.

NASA viewed Swift as an early-warning system for the Hubble and Webb space telescopes, as well as other observatories that could respond to its alerts and conduct more detailed investigations.

Scientists are still working out how to replace that capability.

Nousek said: “Our fervent hope is that the lessons learned from the successes of Swift can be applied to new generations of space missions and accelerate our discoveries about the universe.”

An Oxford graduate experiencing a mental health crisis died by suicide after a nurse sent her alone in a taxi to an assessment centre.

Georgina Hodson, 27, took her own life last April, one day after being taken by ambulance to St Thomas’ Hospital in south London, where she was assessed by psychiatric nurse Ifeoma Onuorah.

Following clinical guidance, Ms Onuorah arranged for Ms Hodson to travel without an escort by taxi to the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS) at St Charles Hospital in Kensington.

Instead of completing the journey, the “exceptionally bright” woman diverted the taxi and returned to her flat in Victoria, where she ended her life.

Inner West London Coroner’s Court heard that the nurse believed the facility, operated by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), offered the most appropriate treatment.

However, Ms Onuorah did not confirm with the MHCAS team that Ms Hodson would be arriving.She said she had been led to believe the service had already been informed that Ms Hodson was on her way.

An emotional Ms Onuorah told the inquest: “I’m really sorry. In hindsight, I should have contacted MHCAS myself and arranged for her to have an escort or to travel by ambulance.”

Ms Hodson’s family condemned the nurse’s actions as “reprehensible” and “very lackadaisical”.

Georgina Hodson, 27, was experiencing a mental health crisis before dying by suicide after a nurse sent her alone in a taxi to an assessment centre

She took her own life last April, one day after being taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in south London, where she was seen by a psychiatric nurse (pictured with her mother Kate Grimwade-Hodson)

Her mother, Kate Grimwade-Hodson, said: “Georgie hated MHCAS. I spoke to her on the phone while she was in hospital, and she said she wasn’t going.

“Then she stopped answering my calls. If I had known, I would have got on a train and gone to see her.”

Ms Hodson told Ms Onuorah that she had no plans to take her own life. However, the nurse remained concerned and, instead of discharging her, arranged for MHCAS to assess her and organised the taxi journey.

The court heard that MHCAS had been told by the hospital that Ms Hodson was with them, but received no further information and was not informed that she was travelling there.

She had been described as “ambivalent” about attending the service but was persuaded by Ms Onuorah.

Steven Badger, general manager for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), told the inquest that Ms Hodson should not have been sent by taxi without the receiving hospital being notified.

He said: “There wasn’t a follow-up call. That was the key thing that was missed.

“Someone should have checked with the receiving team. Assuming they knew she was coming was risky.”

Ms Hodson’s sister, Becky Garnett-Buchma, said her sister’s care had been “very lackadaisical”.

She added: “I work in mental health, and if someone who worked for me behaved like that, they would no longer be working for me. They would face disciplinary action and a referral.”

Her father, Nick Hodson, said: “If staff aren’t doing their jobs properly, another family will have to endure what we have been through. It is absolutely reprehensible.”

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He added: “They knew Georgie was liable to abscond. They should at least have put her in hospital-provided transport.”

Mr Hodson called police that night because he was extremely worried about his daughter.

When officers Joe Hedges and Gareth Baker arrived at the basement flat, there was no response. After hearing running water inside the property, they believed Ms Hodson was in the shower.

When they returned 15 minutes later, they were able to enter and found Ms Hodson lying on the floor.

An ambulance was called and paramedics performed CPR, but she was pronounced dead in the early hours of April 11.

A toxicology report found that Ms Hodson had taken an overdose.

Coroner Sophie Mortimer concluded that her death was a suicide.

Rather than complete the journey, the “exceptionally bright” woman diverted the taxi and returned to her flat in Victoria, London, where she ended her life (pictured with her mother)

She also found that the psychiatric liaison team at St Thomas’ should have known about Ms Hodson’s longstanding mental ill health, including that she had expressed a desire and made a plan to take her own life. The coroner said those factors, together with the failure to confirm her arrival with MHCAS or provide an escort or hospital transport, contributed to her death.

However, she said SLaM and CNWL had both changed their procedures since Ms Hodson’s death and therefore decided not to issue a Prevention of Future Deaths report.

Addressing the family, she said: “I would like to offer my sincere condolences. This has been a very difficult time for you.”

The inquest heard that Ms Hodson was born in Hunan Province, China, and adopted at 20 months old by the Hodson family, who live in Chester, Cheshire.

She achieved top A-level grades at King’s School, Chester, and was accepted by Girton College, Cambridge. After deciding the university was not right for her, she took a year out before applying to Worcester College, Oxford, where she studied philosophy and theology.

Her mother said: “She had a wonderful sense of humour and an infectious smile. Georgie loved playing tennis, running and playing the piano.

“She loved her time at Worcester College and made lifelong friends there.”

She added: “She was kind and compassionate, and we miss her.”

However, Ms Hodson experienced anxiety at secondary school, and her mental health deteriorated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Her father described the situation as a “mental health crisis”. She had also been diagnosed with autism and anxiety.

Ms Hodson had worked with young people on their applications to Russell Group universities, but later changed direction and began working part-time as an associate mental health worker for North London NHS Foundation Trust.

She was also a patient representative for the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The inquest heard that she was worried about being evicted from her home because of unpaid rent and believed she would never marry, have children or secure a full-time job.

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