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How the US midterm elections reflected resistance to data centres
Voters rejected data centre development in all but one of the 41 measures addressing the issue in Tuesday's midterms.
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OpenAI will keep investing in AI data centers despite election results, CFO tells CNBC
Voters across the country on Tuesday voiced their support for candidates who have pledged to place restrictions on data center development.
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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's future in question after midterms setback
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's future is in question after Tuesday's, November 3, midterms setback. On Thursday, November 5, he issued a video message vowing to fight efforts in Congress to impeach him and defending the Iran war as “courageous and historic”. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle has more.
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England secure group top spot with Ireland win
England beat Ireland 68-32 to secure top spot in Pool A and book their place in the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup semi-finals. They will face co-hosts Australia on Tuesday, after completing the group stage with a 100% record.
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Midterms over, Democrats eye wide-open 2028 White House race
With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how to win back the White House. Despite their resounding victories on Tuesday, Democrats enter the 2028 campaign still divided over whether to tack to the center or move further left on issues ranging from healthcare and taxes to policing and foreign policy.
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US Republicans face reckoning after major midterm election defeat
Following the Democrats' sweeping victory in Tuesday's US midterm elections, Republicans are facing a moment of reckoning. With Donald Trump now a "lame-duck" president, the party must find a way forward after a historic electoral setback. The GOP faces major questions about how to win back voters and who will lead the party, with the next presidential election just two years away.
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CNBC's experts on whether the AI trade is ending and what investors should do next
The big Democratic win on Tuesday is changing the technology investment math.
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US midterms: 'Donald Trump's wings have been more than clipped'
US President Donald Trump faced a radically transformed and hostile political landscape after Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday's (November 3) midterms. The result was a personal humiliation for the 80-year-old Trump, leaving him as a lame duck president for the remaining two years of his term. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert has more.
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Democrats to probe JPMorgan's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein when they take Senate control
JPMorgan kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client for years after top executive Mary Erdoes hearing claims he paid to have underage girls brought to his home.
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US midterms: Elon Musk fails $440 million bet as Republicans lose
The 2026 midterm elections were the most expensive on record, with nearly 12 billion dollars spent during the campaign. Tech tycoon Elon Musk was by far the largest individual donor ever, injecting over 440 million dollars of his money to support the GOP. Tuesday's resounding Democratic victory showed the limits of his money, power and influence.
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Students blockade schools, universities as France braces for mass rallies
Students blockaded dozens of high schools and universities across France on Tuesday to maintain pressure on the government over education reforms, as trade unions prepared for a nationwide strike. The school protests have fuelled a broader movement against soaring prices and inadequate public services, which has drawn hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets over the past three weekends. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali reports from a high school blockaded by students in Aubervilliers, near Paris.
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What Wall Street billionaires are saying about Democrats' midterm sweep
Billionaire political spending met criticism from ... billionaires in the wake of Tuesday's blue wave election.
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Winners, losers, the EU: Five takeaways from the US midterms
Donald Trump's Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections, with the Democrats wresting control of Congress. What does this mean for US politics and the world?
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US midterm results a 'victory' for Canadians hopeful of tariff relief
With Canada-US trade talks back on, Tuesday’s midterm Democratic wave puts pressure on the White House to come to a deal.
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Owono enduring ‘hardest days of my life’ after De Miguel death
Tenerife striker De Miguel died on Tuesday as a result of injuries from a collision with FC Andorra goalkeeper Owono.
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Tenerife’s Jesus de Miguel remembered in moving tributes by football world
The 30-year-old died on Tuesday following an on-pitch collision with Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono.
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What consequences for Israel as Democrats win the US midterm elections?
Democrats seized control of the US Congress on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and House of Representatives in a stunning upset. What are the potential consequences for Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, as Trump announced on Tuesday that the US will halt $3.8 billion in aid to the country? FRANCE 24's correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky has more.
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Why the Democrats routed the Republicans in the US midterm elections
US voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. Polls suggest that rising anger about the cost-of-living crisis partly set off by the president’s decision to launch the US-Israeli war on Iran played a crucial part in the Democrats’ historic victory.
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'A generational win' for Dems as blue wave sweeps midterms
Democrats seized control of the US Congress on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and House of Representatives in a stunning, nationwide rejection of Donald Trump. France 24's Wassim Cornet says it is "impossible to overstate" the scale of the victory for the Democrats, with the party on course to win more seats in the House than they had when Barak Obama was elected in 2008.
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Talarico says 'power belongs to the people' as Democrats win big in Texas
Democrat James Talarico flipped a US Senate seat in Texas on Tuesday, defeating Republican Ken Paxton to pull off the first statewide victory in more than 30 years and sending a jolt through a longtime GOP stronghold that President Donald Trump carried by double digits just two years ago. In another political earthquake for the southern border state, Democrat Gina Hinojosa unseated incumbent Texas Governor Greg Abbott. France 24's correspondent in Texas Andres Espinal has the latest.