🇺🇸 - The average gallon of gas is $4.36 today.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran will not halt enrichment or hand over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, according to the country's nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- US military chiefs informed Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir two days ago that the White House had issued directives ahead of a possible large-scale US attack on Iran in the coming weeks.

Zamir subsequently warned Israel’s political establishment that an attack on Iran could potentially delay the Israeli general election scheduled for 27 October.

Source: Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The return of fighting with Iran is possible in the coming weeks. Despite Trump's statements on the matter, Israel is on high alert in preparation for a possible return to fighting against Iran in the near future," - Israeli Channel 14.

🇩🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Germany has left the joint Franco-German program aimed at developing a next-gen main battle tank. This announcement comes around four months after Germany killed the FCAS fighter program.

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡️- The EU is moving toward a potentially major trade confrontation with China as its trade deficit with Beijing exceeds $1 billion per day.

European lawmakers voted 454-86 in favor of tougher measures if China fails to open its markets, while the EU's top trade official begins negotiations in Beijing today.

France and Germany are pushing for stronger enforcement mechanisms, including the possible use of the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument, as Chinese exports place growing pressure on European manufacturing.

🇬🇧🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- The United Kingdom is advising against all non-essential travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇬🇷🇨🇾⚡️- Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is strongly committed to a €1.9 billion undersea power cable linking mainland Europe with Cyprus and eventually Israel.

Washington intends to use diplomatic pressure to overcome obstacles to the project, including a maritime dispute between Greece and Turkey that has delayed construction preparations.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- American tabloid outlet TMZ has obtained the full text message between one of the Cornell 7, Jonathan Newell, and Jane Doe.

In the full text, Jane Doe admits "non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal" and "anything anyone has to say about the gangbang is out of their jurisdiction."

As we have covered, Jane Doe is not a victim of drugging and gang rape, but rather accountability.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The Department of War has announced that the firing squad execution of former Major Nidal Hassan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, will be broadcasted for the public to watch.

🇺🇸⚡️- As other outlets and commentators have pointed out, every major mainstream media outlet has had this text exchange for at least a week and purposefully decided not to publish it until now.

🇧🇷⚡️- Throughout this week, key center-right parties such as the Progressive Party Union alongside right-wing forces have announced they will rally around Flavio Bolsonaro during the second turn of the Brazilian presidential elections. Augusto Cury, the candidate who reached the third place during the first turn with 2.89% of the votes, has also just announced he will support Flavio Bolsonaro.

🇺🇸⚡️- Anthropic announces new guidelines that will prohibit users from adopting "abusive or cruel behaviors" towards Claude AI models starting November 12th.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- OpenAI says Russian and Iranian influence operations used ChatGPT to place regime-friendly content in U.S. and international news outlets.

🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation of Iran’s IRGC testing aerial mines that are launched and detonate in midair, theoretically to prevent helicopters and other aircraft from deploying troops.