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After helping Trump to victory in 2024, young voters swung decisively toward Democrats, helping deliver a wave of midterm victories

The 2026 blue tsunami owes a lot to the youth vote.

According to data from Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (Circle), which monitors youth civic engagement, early estimates show the second-highest youth turnout in a midterm election in 30 years, second only to 2018, when an estimated 31% of young voters turned out during Donald Trump’s first presidency.

Russian channels claim Ukraine is striking deep with a new kind of satellite terminal. Serhii Beskrestnov, the military communications expert and presidential adviser known as Flash, says he will neither confirm nor deny the report. At the same time, he notes that the technology is far from unique and, unlike Starlink, too slow for real-time work.

Ukraine is scrambling for satellite links beyond Elon Musk’s Starlink, which it does not control and whose slowdown crippled front-line operations last month. Meanwhile, Russia routinely trumpets Ukrainian capabilities as proof it has them figured out. Flash’s point runs counter to the reports: the terminal Russia describes is more limited than the network Ukraine already relies on.

“I neither confirm nor deny”

Beskrestnov, who closely tracks Russia’s electronic warfare and Starlink jamming, notes that every Russian channel has reported the same day that Ukraine was using new satellite terminals for deep strikes.

“I do not confirm or deny this information from Russians. I do not know why this caused such a stir in Russian media, since such technologies have long been nothing unique,” he says.

What the terminal is, and isn’t

Russian reports name the SmartLite Sirius terminals, made by the company HiSky, as the alternative to Starlink in Ukraine.

Per Flash, it can work with both low-orbit and geostationary satellites, and instead of a dish it uses a flat antenna, like Starlink’s, that forms beams to track a satellite as it moves, the same approach taken by the US firm Kymeta.

It is small, about 60 by 30 centimeters and 6 kilograms, and can hold a link on the move. But it is no match for Starlink, Flash underlines.

“Terminals of this type can indeed maintain a connection on the move, but this is not Starlink. The speed can reach a maximum of 2 Mbit/s, and signal latency when working through geostationary satellites will be too great for online operation,” he says.

Ukraine has a new battlefield robot the size of a car. Handed to the Argos unmanned-systems company of Ukraine’s 2nd Shostka Regiment, the heavy ground robot hauls up to 1.5 tons of ammunition and supplies and can pull three wounded soldiers out at once, with no crew aboard, the National Guard reports.

Ground robots already run much of the front’s most dangerous hauling and medical evacuation, a record 31,398 missions in October, more than four times the January count, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, sparing soldiers the deadliest trips. The new machine is a step up in size: it does the work of a truck and an ambulance without drivers inside.

A car, not a robot

Unlike the compact platforms Ukraine has fielded by the thousands, the new robot is built on a vehicle scale, with a diesel engine and full drive to handle rough terrain, according to the National Guard.

“This is not just the compact robotic complex we are used to seeing. In its dimensions and design, it looks more like a full-fledged car,” says an operator with the callsign Odinson.

Fewer trips, fewer targets

Size is a survival calculation. Russian drone teams hunt Ukraine’s supply routes, ground robots included, so every run into the gray zone is a chance to be hit, and a machine that carries more per trip means fewer trips.

The heavy ground robots Ukraine has rolled out this fall top out around 500 kilograms a load. At 1.5 tons, the new one roughly triples that.

Previously, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said it wants to shift as much frontline logistics as possible onto robots.

Built to carry the wounded out

The robot deck takes ammunition, food, and other gear, but its main purpose is evacuation: it can carry three wounded soldiers out at once, lifting them from dangerous ground without sending an evacuation crew in after them.

Casualty evacuation has become one of the war’s deadliest tasks, fought in a drone-ruled “kill zone” tens of kilometers deep that Ukraine has increasingly handed to robots. The National Guard says it would soon show the machine in action, hauling cargo across difficult terrain.

Voters approved two measures to save the region’s financially distressed public transit agencies

Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area overwhelmingly approved two transit measures this week that advocates hope will save the region’s financially distressed public transit agencies from a potential death spiral that could have had massive repercussions for the area’s residents and its economy.

The Regional Transit Measure (RTM), a 0.5% sales tax across four Bay Area counties and a 1% sales tax in San Francisco, will generate approximately $1bn annually to fund the region’s four largest transit operators. It received a strong 62.2% support across all five counties that voted on the measure, winning with a landslide of 78.6% in San Francisco.

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“We must dominate underground,” says the commander of a Ukrainian robot-warfare battalion. His unit, the ground-robotics battalion of the Khartiia Corps’ Lava drone regiment, is developing unmanned ground robots adapted to fight specifically inside gas pipes and narrow confines, for the 15-kilometer advance Khartiia drove through them on the Kupiansk front in Operation Veles, the corps reports.

Underground is the drone war’s newest front. Russia spent the past year crawling through gas pipelines to slip behind Ukrainian lines. Kyiv command answered by going underground itself in Veles. Now both sides are reaching into a domain that the commander, with the callsign Matematyk, calls harder to fight in than the air or the surface.

Robots built for the pipe

Matematyk’s team is reworking its ground robots, once surface machines, for the cramped confines of a pipe and the particular tasks of the new domain, Khartiia says.

There is a very large list of works that must be carried out to fight underground and counter the Russian underground. This is a new class of technologies and problems that we have to confront, he explains.

"Because underground movement, or any actions underground, are in fact very complex, far more complex than air or ground operations,” Matematyk shares.

A domain with lessons from the last century

The technology that exists for working below ground, he says, is built for the heavy machines that serious companies use to dig metros, not for war, yet the fighting has already moved underground and will only spread. The question is how fast Ukraine can adapt, according to Matematyk.

“From the example of the First World War and the various underground battles in Europe, we can understand how dangerous and how complex this is. So the only conclusion for us is to work with robots that can, at the least, increase our effectiveness and replace people in carrying out this work underground,” Matematyk adds.

Ukraine is already pushing robots into its most dangerous jobs above ground, in one recent assault sending 28 armed machines and no soldiers at Russian lines, as it strains to spare a manpower-short infantry.

Hardline aide offers ‘unwavering commitment’ to president amid fears White House will double down on far-right immigration agenda

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s most controversial aide and the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown, has lavished praise on the president after his appointment as White House chief of staff.

In his first public remarks since the move was announced, Miller – who begins the role on Monday – pledged “total devotion” to Trump amid concern the administration is now poised to double down on its far-right, nativist immigration agenda.

Le premier ministre sortant devra obtenir le soutien des petits partis afin de former une coalition.