BREAKING: Trump and Netanyahu held an unusually heated phone call focused on Iran, that was "a shouting match from hell," Israeli officials tell Ynet. During the call Netanyahu eagerly pushed Trump to resume major combat operations against Iran, while figures inside and outside the White House try to block it, Israeli officials say. "Iran is working to renew the nuclear threat. The only way to permanently remove this existential threat is by toppling the ayatollah regime," Netanyahu also claimed during the call. He warned Israel would soon face "international pressure to accept a nuclear Iran and the survival of the regime."

BREAKING: Trump to now blame Hegseth for the midterm election results, believing the outcome would have been different without the Iran war, Trump's aides expect, per CBS News. US CENTCOM commander Gen. Brad Cooper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine will also face blame over their roles in advising on the war, the aides say. Meanwhile, Democrats are already preparing investigations into Hegseth now that they have subpoena power.

BREAKING: The US attacked Iran's Qeshm Island, just hours before the midterms, US officials confirm to WSJ. It was part of a series of limited strikes the US has secretly carried out in recent weeks without publicly announcing them. The US has been purposefully keeping the new campaign quiet so as not to signal any intention of resuming major combat operations, one US official said.

BREAKING: Trump is now preparing to use Hegseth as a scapegoat, privately asking his allies about the job performance of Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine as he searches for someone to blame for the political damage of the Iran war, per The Atlantic. Trump is furious that his top military advisers promised him a quick victory in Iran, as short as days, that never came. "Hegseth is unpopular in much of the White House," two advisers to Trump said, adding that he "has not been honest about the state of the war, which he consistently paints in rosy terms to keep Trump happy." "Hegseth is good at telling the president what he wants to hear," the adviser adds. Trump has concluded the war is at least partly to blame for his political position and has now focused on those who told him it would be quick and decisive. Hegseth and Caine briefed Trump and Vance last week on strike options designed to create the conditions for Trump to "declare victory." Trump is now questioning whether the same advisers who promised a quick win can actually deliver one, or have instead dragged him into a larger mess.

BREAKING: Hegseth forced the Pentagon's chief planner, Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, to take at least 3 Polygraph lie detector tests in a leak investigation before abruptly firing him last week, per The Atlantic. Sylvia failed the tests, which were related to disclosures of severe munitions shortages from the Iran war and White House discussions about them, US officials said, indicating the shortages had reached the highest levels of planning. Pentagon officials believe Hegseth is using the firing to weaken the Joint Staff, which reports to Caine, as Trump decides who to blame for the war. Hegseth has fired or forced out more than two dozen generals and admirals.

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects today's reports of a US-Iran deal breakthrough, saying "no new developments have occurred in this regard." Oil prices crashed nearly 8% today based on the false claim of a breakthrough. Iran says "definitely no new events or actions will take place" until the US fulfils all of Iran's 7 conditions.

BREAKING: Trump says people are angry at him that he did not "completely annihilate Iran," just hours after Tucker Carlson said that Trump may be days away from launching a nuclear strike on Iran under direct pressure from Netanyahu, with Pickaxe Mountain as the target. "The only reason why I'm not finished with Iran is I want to be nice. But at some point we’re going to have to give them the hammer," Trump added. Carlson says Netanyahu is "cornered and desperate," pushing Trump to restart the war so he can stay in power after failing to form a government. He adds Bibi "calls Trump about it every day" and is pressuring senior officials for the final nuclear attack.

BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters. "Everything is destroyed," a sales manager in Sweden said, adding that "there has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees." More than 40 supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected. "I only have two words for them: wake up, please, because there's something going on," a store manager in Belgium said. This follows a similar cyberattack last month that hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, raising freezers as high as 80°C and causing major food losses. It also comes after freezers at 6 US military bases mysteriously malfunctioned, spoiling large quantities of food, which the Pentagon is investigating as a suspected cyberattack.

BREAKING: Trump may be days away from launching a nuclear strike on Iran under direct pressure from Netanyahu, Tucker Carlson says. He says "the target would be Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran," where Israel claims Iran has restarted its nuclear program. "Bibi calls Trump about it every day," he says, adding that no conventional weapon can destroy Pickaxe Mountain. "Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend," which would be November 7, he adds.

BREAKING: Democrats lead in all 7 states that will decide the Senate in Tuesday's midterms, per the final NYT/Siena polls. This includes Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988, and Kansas, which has not since 1932.

BREAKING: New video shows air defense systems stationed around Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Those include Avenger systems armed with Stinger missiles and counter-drone kits. It comes as an aircraft has crashed just 7 miles from the estate two hours ago.

BREAKING: Netanyahu and Trump spoke by phone under "extraordinary secrecy," with even his closest advisers excluded and senior Israeli security officials briefed only afterwards, per i24NEWS. Netanyahu urged Trump to resume the war against Iran immediately after Tuesday's midterms and has said nothing publicly since, the Israeli officials say. "Just had a very good talk with Netanyahu. We had a very good talk, spoke about Iran," Trump said minutes ago.

BREAKING: An unidentifiable aircraft has just rapidly slammed into the ground in Palm Beach County, Florida, causing a crater in the roadway and debris spread across the street. The crash is roughly 7 miles from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach and comes as US military air defense systems have been deployed around Mar-a-Lago.

BREAKING: US Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized following a stroke, per his office. This comes just days after being briefed on highly classified military planning on Iran to restart the war after the midterms, where he called Trump's plan "insane." "I will just say this: their plan is insane. It will lead to devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law," he said four days ago.

BREAKING: North Carolina's early vote in the midterms has swung from a Republican lead of 41,457 in 2024 to a Democratic lead of 343,548 in 2026, with Republicans failing to win a single day of early voting, per VoteHub's Zachary Donnini. This is the largest Democratic early-vote lead in North Carolina since at least 2006.

BREAKING: 13 US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft are now lined up at Israel's Ramon Airport in anticipation of major escalation with Iran. Israel completed all military preparations last night for a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran, and is at its highest state of alert, prepared to enter combat within hours if ordered.

BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck Russia's Kstovo oil refinery, setting it ablaze with massive fires. Kstovo is Russia's 4th-largest refinery, processing 17 million tonnes of crude oil a year. It is the third Russian refinery struck in three days.

BREAKING: Trump just spoke briefly by phone with Netanyahu as the US prepares to restart bombing in Iran, per WSJ. It comes as Israel has completed all military preparations for a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran in the past few hours and is at its highest state of alert.