Overnight, the Democrats took back both chambers of Congress: 228 seats to 139 in the House, 54 to 44 in the Senate. Donald Trump says he is “willing to accept” the result. He will govern for two years without a majority.
The students of UNCG, in Greensboro, North Carolina, marched for miles in procession to go and vote. Polling places had been closed in majority-Black neighbourhoods, and hours-long queues formed where few people vote for Donald Trump: making the vote slow and hard for those who are not on your side, as in Brazil ten days ago, where voters were left at the bus stop for lack of buses and voting had to be extended by two hours. They voted all the same.
Since Monday, sixteen junior doctors in general practice have been doing their fourth year of training in sixteen towns of the Vosges. France also tops the European Innovation Fund with sixteen projects, and Philippe Jaenada has the Goncourt.
In Arches, Chantraine, Châtenois, Senones, Saint-Dié, this Monday, a new doctor opened the surgery door. Sixteen junior doctors in general practice, in their fourth year of training, joined sixteen towns of the Vosges for twelve months, 251 across the Grand Est region, 36 in Moselle. The measure was voted in the Senate against medical deserts; in the Vosges, people already call it “good news for the département”.
Sébastien Lecornu raises the ceiling of the Livret A savings account “to between 25,000 and 30,000 euros”. Under Brut’s video, one reader: “My Livret A: 5 €”. Oil is climbing again after Qeshm, and California said no to a tax on its billionaires.
On Tuesday, Sébastien Lecornu announced a rise in the ceiling of the Livret A, today 22,950 euros, “to between 25,000 and 30,000 euros”. Under Brut’s video, 12,700 people reacted in eight hours. “My Livret A: 5 €”, wrote one. “We would need to be able to save, to begin with”, answered another, approved 4,600 times. A third did the sums: a savings book at 1.7% when inflation is at 3.4%.
China has published its timetable: three uncrewed flights from 2027, then astronauts on the Moon before 2030, a base and a reactor. Greenland has ratified its security agreement, and three African swimmers finished in the top six of the 200 m breaststroke in Dakar.
In Beijing, on 31 October, an engineer set a date in front of the cameras: early 2027, the first uncrewed test flight of the Long March 10A rocket, then two more, then two taikonauts on the Moon before 2030. The plan also provides for a lunar base and a nuclear reactor on site; Mars will wait. The United States, for its part, still aims for a crewed return with Artemis. Two countries, one Moon, and for the first time since 1972 a precise timetable.
Cubans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Uzbeks: of the 28,000 people deported from the United States since January 2025, more than 500 were sent to Africa, with no link to the continent. The United States is also closing its door to travellers who have passed through the DRC.
They are Cuban, Vietnamese, Iranian, Uzbek, and they wake up in Africa. Of the 28,000 immigrants deported from the United States between January 2025 and August 2026, more than 500 were sent to the continent, according to the Deportation Data Project quoted by Le Monde Afrique; most have no link with the countries receiving them. Under the video, a reader: “So what is international law for, in the end?”
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
