The White House has asked the Pentagon to develop options for new U.S. strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms, though no final decision has been made.

Officials said Trump wants to show progress in the war and help bring down gas prices before the election.

More extensive military action is also being considered for after the midterms.

Source: The Atlantic

Trump will attend a White House AI science summit Thursday focused on using “super intelligence” to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and strengthen U.S. leadership.

The administration will announce more than $1 billion in industry commitments to the Genesis Mission from companies including AMD, OpenAI and Anthropic, alongside a new compute hub spanning 14 institutions in 10 southeastern states.

Source: Axios

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We are too soft. That is my argument with Netanyahu.

If someone threatens my son’s life while he is serving in the military, erase the house that person comes out of.

And if you have a daughter who is a soldier, I want to protect her so that not a single hair on her head is harmed — let 1,000 terrorists die.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

First of all, a desire for revenge is not a bad thing. I’m not against it.

When you’re the crazy one, when you’re the boss, when you’re tough, they say, "Wait, wait — it’s not worth messing with them."

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

I never believed in diplomatic agreements.

Host: The U.S., a superpower, is not succeeding against Iran.

Ben Gvir: It could have succeeded. There were unnecessary restraints there too.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We will always need to fight them. We will always need to be strong and maintain our ability to fight them. Otherwise, we will lose.

It’s like football: if you defend, defend, defend, eventually you concede a goal. To win, you have to keep attacking, attacking, attacking.

Even when you’re leading by one, even when you’re leading by two — don’t stop. Attack more and more and more.

The Trump administration declined to invite OSCE observers to the 2026 midterms, ending more than two decades of international monitoring of U.S. federal elections.

The OSCE has observed every U.S. federal election since 2002.

Its monitors have no enforcement powers and only observe polling and report on how elections are conducted.

Source: MS NOW

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar:

The British and other left-wing governments in Europe are 100% on the side of the Palestinians and against us.

You have to understand that. It is fundamental, and it is not going to change in the coming years.

UKMTO says a tanker has been struck by multiple projectiles about 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar.

Casualties are reported.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius:

There was a time when Putin was saying that they would not invade Ukraine.

So you can never predict what’s on their mind and how they will actually proceed.

They’re talking one thing, but acting very much differently.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius:

Our constitution bans weapons of mass destruction on our soil. We are removing that article.

It does not mean we’ll have them ourselves. That means if a French submarine carrying an atomic weapon comes to a Baltic port, it’s okay.

If a plane carrying an atomic weapon flies over Lithuania, it will be okay. Currently, it’s not allowed.

And we can maybe join some nuclear umbrella.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius:

Sometimes I hear this Suwałki corridor called an Achilles’ heel or a bottleneck. It’s not something that narrow.

It’s actually, I think, 60 kilometers wide, and to some extent it creates issues for maneuvering and logistics in a worst-case scenario.

But at the same time, we recently established a military training area and facilities next to the Suwałki corridor.

I mean, it’s not a trap or gap that brings some additional risks to Lithuania.

A UPS employee missed a security warning and mistakenly routed sensitive F-35 parts through Hong Kong, allowing China to obtain them.

The shipment included a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door coated with radar-absorbing material and was supposed to avoid restricted countries under U.S. export rules.

Source: Bloomberg

Lithuania is deploying up to 100 soldiers to reinforce its border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region for about two weeks.

Officials said the preventive move follows reports of a possible Russian mobilization, which could prompt people to try crossing illegally, as well as a recent border incident between Latvia and Belarus.

Lithuania says the situation at its border is currently calm.

Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was raped this summer while trying to repair a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City.

She reported being struck on the head, losing consciousness and waking during the assault, later suffering bruising, bleeding and what she believes was a concussion.

Greene-Placentia reported the rape to police two weeks later and says she is continuing her campaign while speaking publicly to encourage other sexual assault victims to come forward.

📸 Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot gives the middle finger to the exploding wreckage of a Russian attack drone he just shot down.

Greece lied about its budget for years.

When the truth came out, the country nearly went bankrupt.

Germany helped lead a €289 billion rescue.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

Whoever elects a member of a far-right party as state parliament president must reconcile that with their own conscience.

Whoever gives their vote to the AfD is playing the extremists' game and destroying credibility.

New York prosecutors are expected to bring new charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, over the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuelan custody.

The charges could be announced as soon as Thursday and relate to the alleged wrongful detention of more than a dozen U.S. citizens.

Source: CNN