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Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy and hardline crackdown on immigration, took up his new role as White House chief of staff on Monday.

Miller, 41, began his new role serving as Trump’s right-hand man after Republicans suffered massive losses nationwide in the midterm elections. He was previously serving as a deputy chief of staff.

Ukraine had barely managed to adapt to Russian jet-powered drones when the Russians ramped up the production of another type of weapon—small-sized cruise missiles. Russia has upgraded its “Geran-5” jet drone to achieve greater speed and altitude. Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, which examined a nearly intact sample, found foreign electronic components inside, it said. By its aerodynamic design and characteristics, the Geran-5 K5-K already qualifies as a small cruise missile.

Of the 93 foreign electronic components, the most come from US makers (52), with 10 each from China and Switzerland. Russia keeps trying to hide the markings of the electronic base it uses, in particular digital signal processors from Texas Instruments and inertial modules from Japan’s Murata.

From drone to cruise missile

Russia began using the new K5-K modification against Ukraine in early fall 2026. The craft is more compact than its predecessor—4 meters long against 6.5, with a 3-meter wingspan against 3.2.

Its maximum altitude rose from 5 to 6 kilometers, its cruising speed tops 450 km per hour, and in some maneuvers it accelerates to 1,000 km per hour. The range holds at 1,000 kilometers and the warhead at 90 kilograms. In the studied sample, intelligence found a thermobaric warhead, a more powerful one.

Chinese chips, a Russian engine

The K5-K carries the “Susanin” system that Ukrainian intelligence earlier found in Russia’s Geran-4 drone. It navigates using terrain imagery, matching the feed from a dual-band camera against a reference picture stored in memory to maintain its route. The image-processing block is built on a Chinese microcomputer, the Coke Pi.

The drone’s engine, a TRD-200 turbojet, is assembled in Russia’s Alabuga from Chinese parts.

Defense Intelligence has published an interactive 3D model and the component list on its War&Sanctions portal, saying the foreign parts show how much Russian weapons production leans on imports, which tighter sanctions could choke off.

A faster threat for air defense

Ukrainian air defense is still learning to counter jet drones. Its effectiveness is growing, with Ukraine now downing nearly 60% of Russia’s Geran-4 jet drones and up to 80% in some attacks, the General Staff says.

However, Ukraine and its partners must urgently prepare for the new threat to avoid repeating the mistakes made against jet drones that caught air defenses off guard in August 2026.

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Ukraine is standing up a Space Forces branch of its military to fight Russia in orbit. On 9 November, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law creating the Space Forces within the Armed Forces, a branch whose core missions will be to destroy Russian satellites and strike Moscow’s new military satellite network, Taras Berezovets of the Territorial Defense Forces Command said on 24 Channel.

The force was created against the backdrop of a slowdown in the speed of Ukraine’s military Starlink terminals after the diesel deal between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was also created amid Russia’s development of its “Rassvet” system, which will coordinate its forces.

What the new branch is for

Berezovets laid out three aims for the branch:

• destroying Russian satellites and striking the “Rassvet” network
• managing Ukraine’s own satellites
• folding space reconnaissance into combat as leading armies do.

Because Ukraine cannot launch spacecraft from its own territory during the war, the satellites would be put into orbit by partners and then pass under the direct command of the Space Forces.

“There are enough ranges in the world: France, the UK, which can provide us with the appropriate capabilities,” he said.

Why a space branch now

Berezovets recalled that Ukraine became the first country in the world to create Unmanned Systems Forces in February 2024, and called a separate space branch the logical next step against Russia, whose own military-space forces have long been in action.

“The decision to create a separate branch, space forces within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is correct, if only because within the enemy’s forces they have long operated, the VKS, Russia’s military-space forces. Let’s not forget that the war is waged, among other things, at the level of satellites that carry out reconnaissance missions,” he stressed.

The threat from Rassvet

Berezovets described “Rassvet” as a Starlink analog that Russia is building for combat, capable of feeding operators data from reconnaissance drones and redirecting strike drones like Shaheds mid-flight.

He said Russia has put 32 craft into orbit this year to pass data and correct drone routes in real time, letting its drones rely less on preset paths and slip past Ukrainian air defense and electronic warfare.

The system is still in testing and glitching. Russia lost contact with three craft in the past month, he said, but warned against underestimating a project Moscow feeds with foreign components bought around sanctions.

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Former president’s new book Promise Me America provides an inside look at January 6, Covid-19 response and more

Joe Biden will undertake only limited promotion of his upcoming White House memoir because of advancing cancer, the former president said in a social media post on Sunday night.

His new book, Promise Me America, which will be published on 17 November, is Biden’s account of a one-term presidency that began in 2021 in the shadow of the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump eager to overturn the outgoing Republican president’s defeat by his Democratic rival in the 2020 election.

Good Monday morning. Last week, the UK imposed one of the strictest, most vague (and therefore overly broad) new laws around pornography in recent memory. Recording yourself having consensual kinky sex in private could come with jail time, as could watching other people do it. And sex workers are the ones to feel the repercussions of bad laws like these first, of course, with many reporting content disappearing from their online stores en masse. Keep reading to learn more about what it covers, and how creators are responding.

In the UK, Face Sitting Porn Might Land You in Jail

“I adore breath play. I love being strangled, suffocated and drowned, and I love strangling and suffocating others. Waterboarding: that’s my favourite,” Melissa Todd, a UK-based writer and sex worker, told me. “Many women do: it really isn’t only horrid men forcing us to do these dreadful depraved acts. Interrupting oxygen supply produces the most intense sensation of euphoria. I enjoy it in my private life, and I offer it in sessions too.”

Starting Friday, she and anyone else in the UK distributing or possessing certain types of choking, suffocation, breath play, strangulation and a bunch of other types of porn — even if it’s just recorded in the privacy of their homes and not for sale on a porn site — could face up to five years in prison. 

This is, predictably, already a huge mess for sex workers. Adult creators watched platforms remove hundreds of their videos — even when the creators thought they were in compliance with the law. These creators say they were blindsided by the removals, since the content didn’t seem to violate the law at all. Creators are reporting one platform in particular, Clips4Sale, is purging content with little notice, “a precautionary measure,” with videos disappearing in the hundreds.

“Of course, we were all aware of the new Act coming in and prepared accordingly, but not for anything at this scale. We've had nothing since and they've been tweeting as normal,” adult creator Sophia Truee said. Clips4Sale launched in 2003 and caters heavily to fetish content. “It's a huge blow to this area of the industry, and I can only hope things will be communicated soon. We, as creators, understand how difficult it is to be a content site in this current climate, but communication has not been prioritized,” Truee said, noting that this is happening right before the holidays, with Black Friday being one of the most popular times for creators selling content. “For many, this will be devastating, as over 20 years of the work will have just been wiped.” 

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Nevermind! Following widespread backlash, Meta announced last week it’s putting a planned update of its commercial terms of use on pause. The terms would have required business accounts to allow Meta to “use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta’s products. The new terms were initially set to go into effect on October 30, but after outcry from journalists and users who didn’t want Meta reaching far beyond Instagram and Facebook and into their websites to suck up their work as training data for its generative AI products, Meta announced it was pushing the change to November 20. Now, it’s on hold entirely. 

Whoa, dude. Archaeologists discovered the oldest direct evidence of psychoactive cannabis use in a Siberian tomb that dates back 2,800 years and was the site of human and horse sacrifices. During excavations of the tomb, a team found more than 1,400 cannabis seeds scattered around the remains of several Iron Age individuals, and even identified cannabinoids—including the active compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—in a person’s preserved hair. Though humans cultivated cannabis for many millennia before the Iron Age, this is by far the earliest clear-cut proof that the plant was consumed for its psychoactive effects, which have made it one of the most widely used drugs in the world today.

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Russia lost 2,980 troops killed and seriously wounded on 8 November, its heaviest daily toll of the full-scale war, Ukraine's General Staff said. It is the third such record in under three weeks. Ukraine's drone pilots set a record of their own that day, and Russia's losses for 2026 have now passed 400,000.

Russia keeps sending infantry at Ukraine's lines day after day, and Ukraine increasingly answers with drones. Germany's defense minister sees no Russian progress on the ground, only enormous losses. The toll keeps climbing as US, Ukrainian, and Russian officials head into talks in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine's daily figures cannot be checked independently, but outside counts point the same way. The BBC has named 285,023 dead Russian soldiers so far.

A new daily high, a week after the last one

The previous record, 2,500, came in the General Staff's report of 2 November. The one before it, 2,250, came on 22 October, Ukrainian news site Liga counted. The General Staff compared the new toll to more than six crews of the cruiser Moskva, the Black Sea Fleet flagship Ukraine sank in 2022. That works out to one Russian soldier every 29 seconds, it said.

Russia has lost 400,410 troops since 1 January, crossing the 400,000 mark on the record day. For all of 2025, its losses came to 418,170 killed and wounded, the General Staff said in January. Its overall tally since February 2022 now stands at about 1,609,380.

The General Staff blamed Russia's commanders for the toll. “The Russian command keeps driving units into suicidal assaults,” it wrote, while Ukraine's troops stop those attacks day after day.

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Ukraine's drone pilots break their record for the third time in eight days

Pilots of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces killed or wounded 801 Russian troops on 8 November, their commander, Robert Brovdi, callsign Madyar, wrote on Telegram. The previous highs were 751 on 5 November and 708 on 1 November, he added. On the record day, his pilots took out one Russian soldier every 1.8 minutes.

From 1 to 8 November, the drone force hit 5,492 Russian troops, an average of 687 a day. Its pilots destroyed or hit 2,611 Russian targets in all on 8 November alone, Brovdi said.

Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles can still hit bridges when satellite navigation is jammed, because onboard seekers correct their course in the final seconds, Ukrainian radio-technology expert Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov wrote on 9 November. Ukraine’s military intelligence database lists both seekers he names, though not how they perform under jamming.

Since 1 October, Russia has been striking Kyiv’s Dnipro crossings, the first such attacks since the full-scale invasion began. Jamming is one of Ukraine’s defenses against guided weapons. If it can’t throw these missiles off course, the bridges have to rely on interceptors and repairs, with backup crossings still being built.

The last seconds of the flight

Navigation is suppressed over the whole country during air-raid alerts, Beskrestnov wrote in a Telegram post. That makes it hard for an Iskander to hit within a meter of its target, and an inertial system alone won’t give that accuracy, he added. Russia, he wrote, wants its hits.

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That’s why, according to Beskrestnov, Iskanders carry optical homing heads or more expensive radar-guided ones. As the warhead falls, radar scans the terrain for a few seconds, and a correction goes into the missile’s guidance system, he explained.

What the intelligence database shows

Beskrestnov linked to War&Sanctions, a portal run by Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) that catalogs components found in Russian weapons. One entry lists the 9E436 optical correlation homing head for the 9M723 Iskander-M. It names Russia’s TsNIIAG as the manufacturer and the NII Televideniya institute as an involved company. Another lists the 9B918 active radar homing head, made by the Russian company Radar MMS.

Russian drones first hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge on 1 October, and the strikes continued the next day. Days later, a strike cratered the Northern Bridge. Then, overnight on 27 October, a ballistic attack damaged the Southern Bridge. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said traffic across it was closed and metro trains between Osokorky and Chervonyi Khutir stations were suspended. On 7 November, six ballistic missiles targeted the Northern Bridge and four hit it, Zelenskyy said. Traffic across it was closed in both directions, Klitschko reported.

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Meanwhile, Infrastructure and Recovery Minister Mykola Kalashnyk said on 30 October that Ukraine plans 21 alternative crossings over rivers, including the Dnipro, with the first in Kyiv due in early 2027. Bridges have been targets in both directions. In June, Ukraine struck the Chonhar bridge to occupied Crimea, and a Ukrainian commander told Army TV the strike left a Russian brigade waiting for fuel.

Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they’ll lose access to search engine

Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search.

Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers and administrators to restrict their use. The company said schools should have control over whether students use AI in the classroom, but that schools that choose to block Google’s AI tools will also lose access to its search engine.

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