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“Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk wrote on X on Wednesday morning, jumping off the results to boost an idea he’s trying to pursue. He quickly followed that with a joke about election interference, writing, “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time.” Musk’s adopted home of Texas has been a hot spot for data centers and data center construction over the last couple of years, with Abbott a strong ally of both tech leaders and Wall Street. “Amid data center backlash all across the country, Texas was supposed to be an AI oasis, where…
Residents had gathered for their weekly humanitarian aid distribution when at least nine FAB-3000 bombs, each weighing around three tonnes, hit the site. Footage shows a huge crater, debris scattered across the area and bodies being recovered from the wreckage. Four police officers and two rescue workers were among those killed, while around 50 people remain missing. Volunteers joined the search despite repeated disruptions caused by Russian drones. At a hospital in Zaporizhzhia, doctors treated four survivors for burns, fractures and shrapnel wounds. Among them was a 22-year-old woman with burns covering around 81% of her body and a rescue…
For almost two months, a wave of social unrest has been bringing crowds out onto the streets of several European countries, where the persistent rise in the cost of living has become an increasingly difficult burden to bear. From Albania through Italy, France, Belgium and Germany to Portugal and Spain, the motives for the protests are not always the same, but one of the main grievances, particularly among younger people, is soaring housing costs, which in fact have been worsening since 2010. Although a principle enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and a basic condition for the…
Published on 4 November 2026 – 9:43 GMT+1 The hacker attack that hit around a hundred supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia and Ireland has not spared Italy. At least four Coop stores, three in Catania and one in Palermo, were affected by a suspected cyberattack that caused temperatures to rise in refrigeration systems and forced shopkeepers to throw away food that had overheated. This was initially reported to Ansa by Giuseppe Spadaro, general manager of the Radenza group, which runs the Coop supermarkets. “We have verified that it is an attack on our remote control system for frozen-food counters.…
The results will probably set in motion investigations into the war in Iran, the running of the FBI and, of course, Donald Trump’s family business dealings. Think Bill Clinton’s Whitewater scandal and Trump’s first impeachment rolled into one, with Iran-Contra thrown in for extra froth. How will these seismic political shifts impact Europe? From energy prices to the war in Ukraine, the continent has a lot riding on what happens in Washington. Here are five things to watch out for. Europe risks bearing the brunt of Trump’s frustration Some seasoned observers think this is not only possible but highly likely.…
A jubilant crowd reacts to the announcement, marking what could become a historic breakthrough for Democrats in a state long dominated by Republicans. If confirmed, Talarico’s victory would make him the first Democrat elected to the US Senate from Texas since 1988, ending nearly four decades without a Senate election win for the party in the conservative stronghold. The atmosphere at the election-night gathering was one of excitement as supporters welcomed the projected result. “Up and down the ballot Texas is turning blue, and it’s about damn time,” one supporter declared, expressing hopes of a wider shift in the state’s…
The Democrats have won the Senate and the House, taking control of Congress for the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency. On this special episode of Westminster Insider, Patrick Baker is joined from Washington D.C. by our Global Politics Bureau Chief Jack Blanchard to unpack the election results and to explore what they could mean for Britain and its European allies.
US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that rising petrol prices linked to the war in Iran played a role in his Republican Party’s defeat in the midterm elections. In a phone interview with Fox News, Trump argued that voters broadly supported his actions against Iran but were unwilling to bear the short-term financial consequences of the conflict. “I don’t think it’s the war. I think it’s a gasoline price. People agree with what I’m doing on Iran, but they really probably weren’t willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline,” he said. Trump described the higher fuel…
Donald Trump has suffered one of the worst defeats of his political career, after Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress to the Democrats in a vote that turned into a verdict on his presidency. By 07:40 CET, Democrats had gained 25 seats in the House of Representatives, taking them to 220, two more than the 218 needed for a majority. In the Senate, they took seven seats from the Republicans, including in Texas, Ohio, Kansas and Maine. High prices weighed heavily on voters. About two-thirds said in an election-day survey that Trump’s tariffs had hurt the economy. The…
Overnight, the Democratic party has won the U.S. Senate and made decisive gains in the House. But this might not necessarily be good news for Europe. On this special episode, Zoya Sheftalovich is joined by Sarah Wheaton in Brussels and our Global Politics Bureau Chief Jack Blanchard, who is ringing in from Washington. Jack will give us a picture of election night and the “generational changing of the guard” as he describes it, which has seen big wins for Democrats across the country. But could this blue wave actually mean Donald Trump — more curtailed at home — turns his…