The United States can detect sabotage of undersea cables, but it has no plan to repair them in wartime
## 1. What the analysis says about Svalbard and why Washington is looking at it. According to [War on the Rocks](https://warontherocks.com/who-repairs-the-internet-in-wartime/), in the spring of 2026 the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States
America today, 5 November 2026 — the 10 stories that matter
America today: the 10 highest-impact stories of 5 November 2026, ranked by the olivLaw desk — geopolitics (5), defense (3), domestic (1).
Wall Street no longer pays any price for AI — Alphabet, Meta and the test of $740 billion in spending
Alphabet had the worst day in its history after investing $51.4 billion in one quarter and running out of free cash. Microsoft, the only one that spent below plan, held up. Why the market changed the rule, what the history of post-earnings drops shows and thr…
Data Center Alley's bill comes due — 54 GW contracted, 4.8 GW used, and who pays for the grid across PJM's 13 states
Ashburn holds the world's largest concentration of data centres, and the cost of their grid lands on customers in 13 states and Washington, D.C.: $6.3 billion of PJM's 2028/2029 capacity auction. Virginia is shifting costs onto data centres, Loudoun is pausin…
Forty-five days before the midterms — Iran, a base in Poland, Canada's turn to Europe, and whether Trump backs down again
In one week the president said the Iran war was "hopefully toward the end", then that he must decide whether to "annihilate" Iran; promised Poland a permanent US Army base while the Pentagon studies pulling up to 40,000 troops out of Europe; and called Canada…
America Before the November 3 Test — an X-Ray of the 2026 Midterms and a Calibrated Forecast for the House and Senate
Ten weeks before the November 3, 2026 midterm elections, the signals converge: Democrats lead the generic ballot by 6-8 points, President Trump's approval has fallen to a second-term low, and the Cook Political Report has moved the Texas and Iowa Senate races…
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