The Hill
Miller gets the top staff job, pledges 'absolute loyalty' to Trump, and Democrats and at least one Republican immediately wonder if anyone learned anything from those midterm losses.
The Guardian Europe
The Trump administration eyes underwater datacenters in the Great Lakes, while local activists in Ohio prepare for a fight over hot water, algal blooms, and whether servers belong in Lake Erie.
The Guardian
A decade after Paris, temperatures have blown past 1.5C, the US has bailed, and Cop31 is co-hosted by two coal fans - but the solar panels and BYD Dolphins are real, so settle in.
The Guardian Europe
Scotland's Bonfire Night featured fireworks aimed at police and ambulance crews, a burning police vehicle, and cross-border reinforcements because apparently that's where we are now.
The Hill
New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announces deportations will continue - a sentence that has never once been followed by "just kidding" - after Democrats take both chambers and promise to rein in ICE.
The Guardian Europe
Trump, who spent months telling supporters to pretend he was on the ballot, says he wasn't on the ballot after Democrats win big. Voters, it turns out, were judging his agenda anyway.
The Guardian
Supreme Court rejects Trump DOJ's emergency bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots, because apparently the Constitution still exists.
The Guardian Europe
Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are hiding in basements and marching 45 miles to Columbus, because apparently the land of the free now requires that.
The Guardian Europe
Abdul El-Sayed declines to apologize for everything ever said by anyone adjacent to his campaign, as his primary rival's fiancé campaigns for the Republican and Trump shares imaginary conversations about "jihadists."
Ars Technica
Trump declares foreign factory robots a national security threat, orders negotiations, and threatens tariffs on the machines that build America's cars, planes, and weapons - because nothing says 'America First' like taxing your own assembly line.
The Guardian Europe
Trump demands prosecution of Mary Peltola over alleged ballot-stacking scheme, while also musing about renaming rivers and dancing for crowds - because nothing says 'law and order' like a dad dance and a geography rebrand.
The Hill
Karl Rove thinks Trump will restart strikes on Iran after the midterms, because nothing says 'election accountability' like a post-vote bombing campaign.
The Guardian
A suspected Chinese intelligence asset allegedly got close to Nvidia's CEO - because nothing says 'ordinary customer meeting' like a surveillance file and a chip-smuggling probe.
The Hill
The U.S. refugee program now admits 16,292 people in fiscal 2026 - all but five of them South Africans - because apparently the melting pot has been replaced by a very specific fondue set.
The Hill
Trump promises to scrap methane rules so oil and gas can save $45 billion and emit more of a gas 28 times worse than CO2 - because apparently the climate needed a villain arc.
BBC World
Lula da Silva, 80, proves that prison, cancer, and three failed runs are just minor setbacks on the path to a fourth term - and that a 50% tariff from Trump is merely a negotiating tactic.
Ars Technica
Holtec's Palisades restart - the flagship of America's nuclear comeback - features a worker in the reactor cavity, a tilting fuel bundle, and a workforce too chilled to speak up. Move fast and break atoms, apparently.
The Guardian
Trump tells Iowa rally he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running an attack ad featuring the mother of his rival - a woman whose daughter was raped at 12 - because why let a little thing like decency get in the way of politics?
The Guardian
Trump praises a supporter who allegedly punched a protester, compares him to Evander Holyfield, and calls it 'courage' - meanwhile, suspicious letters with white powder target Congress and Aipac stops endorsements.
Ars Technica
A WSJ report says Musk personally ordered the Starlink speed cap that hobbled Ukrainian drones, then let Trump take the blame - while Trump, Rubio, and Musk all insist they had nothing to do with it.
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