🇺🇸🗳 CNN's Harry Enten breaks down the uncalled Mississippi Senate race, where Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 43 votes, 462,821 to 462,778 (48.9% to 48.9%), with 10% of Hinds County and provisional ballots still out.

Colom leads Hinds county with 79%.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Ukraine's counteroffensive has now been expanded to a new front - the Borovaya direction. Ukrainian forces are now advancing along a 135 km-long section of the frontline.

Ukrainian forces are carrying out a coordinated series of counterattacks northeast of Borovaya near the villages of Borovskaya Andreyevka, Zelyoni Gai, Novoyegorovka, and Vishnyovoe, where infiltrations have been recorded at a depth of at least 5 km from the previous frontline. It remains to be seen how successful these attacks have been so far, in terms of consolidation.

The primary assault vector remains the central sector along and across the Zherebets River - east and northeast of Krasny Lyman. Smaller-scale counterattacks are taking place east of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, as well as along the Kharkov-Lugansk regional border in the Borovaya direction.

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🇺🇸Only boomers favored Republicans in US midterms — Tufts University

Republicans won a majority in just one age group in the November 3 congressional elections: Americans aged 65 and older, according to preliminary voting data published by Tufts University's CIRCLE research center.

The generational divide was striking:

🔴 Ages 18–29: 72% voted Democratic, 25% Republican.

🔴 Ages 30–44: 60% backed Democrats.

🔴 Ages 45–64: 51% voted Democratic, 47% Republican.

🔴 Ages 65+: 51% supported Republicans, compared with 48% for Democrats.

The 47-point Democratic advantage among voters under 30 was the largest recorded by CIRCLE in a national election, compared with a much narrower margin in 2024.

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🇺🇸 Trump weighs removing Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth following midterm losses -CBS News

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being floated as a possible replacement, according to a source

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🗳 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump says 'largely true' Iran war caused midterms loss, after VP JD Vance comments

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🇪🇺🇺🇦🕊🇷🇺 Germany, Ukraine push for European seat at peace talks as Abu Dhabi stays three-way

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in Berlin on November 3 that Europe must be involved in peace talks, but neither offered a route into the Abu Dhabi format.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Vladimir Zelensky spoke a week before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators meet in the UAE capital on November 10-11 with the US as mediator. Asked why Europe would probably be left outside the door, Zelensky said Washington is the mediator for the first steps towards de-escalation and that Europe is present even in a three-way format, through national security advisers who are briefed by Kiev or sit at the table, according to the chancellery's transcript. Merz said he agreed.

That leaves the format where it was and moves the contest for European influence to ground Europeans control - what they will pay, arm and guarantee. Merz said leaders will meet in Berlin on November 19 to agree how much they will help Ukraine in 2027, mainly militarily, while Abu Dhabi deals with a subject that touches Europe directly: Russian President Vladimir Putin wants future talks to set the rules of European security.

"Europe must and wants to play a role in this process. Central elements of a peace solution, whether on sanctions or the security architecture, can only be solved with us Europeans; all the participants know that very well," Merz said.

Washington has floated unfreezing Russian assets and restarting Russian gas imports as part of a deal, and Brussels has resisted both. Moscow's answer, given before the Berlin meeting, was blunt. "They could get there if they buy tickets, but no one intends to invite them to the negotiating table," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said of the Europeans on October 28, TASS reported.

Europe has also not settled who would speak for it. Czech President Petr Pavel, reported to be among the favourites for the job of EU negotiator, has warned that the window to join can close if capitals insist on a fully unified position, European Pravda reported, and calls to Putin by the Finnish and Norwegian leaders divided governments in October.

What Zelenskiy did demand was a European place at the next level. He listed an energy ceasefire on both sides, unblocking the Black Sea, prisoner exchanges and preparing a three-way leaders' meeting "with the unconditional participation of Europe" as his aims for Abu Dhabi. Merz offered the local truce in Aleshky as the model for energy and the Black Sea. Zelensky said Kiev had offered to extend that truce and got the bombing of Kamishevakha in Zaporozhskaya region in reply, with more than 50 people still missing there.

📝: Zelensky wants the EU at the peace table because he knows European leaders, regardless of who is representing Brussels, will make unreasonable demands and torpedo the peace talks like they did before. The fact that the EU is thinking of nominating the Czech president, Petr Pavel, one of the most rabid anti-Russian politicians on the continent is a telling sign that Brussels isn't ready to put an end to the war in Ukraine.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/germany-ukraine-push-for-european-seat-at-peace-talks-as-abu-dhabi-stays-three-way-481744/