🇺🇸🐘⚡️- A shooting has been reported in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, targeting the headquarters of the Virginia Republican Party. Police are on scene, and a citywide manhunt has been declared, according to local reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports that an extraordinary meeting between President Trump and senior military officials was held at the White House today, in which the President was briefed on military options against Iran that could take place as soon as the midterm elections conclude.

Simultaneously, several Gulf Arab states have been warned to prepare for a "short, intense military campaign" against Iran after the midterm elections.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Newsmax reports that the Trump administration plans to carry out strikes against Iran next week, after the midterm elections have been completed.

🇮🇷⚡️- A series of violent explosions are reported from Qeshm Island, southern Iran. Cause unknown.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian missiles have been launched from Qeshm Island against what is believed to be a fighter jet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The US has begun a major airlift to the Middle East following warnings to prepare for a possible resumption of the Iran war. At least 10 US military transport aircraft landed at Ovda and Nevatim airbase in Israel over the past 24 hours, some arriving from Fort Bliss, Texas, suggesting possible air defense resupply.

US military aircraft have also landed at bases in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar over the past few hours." - Kann News, anti-Likud left-wing outlet.

🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡️- GPS jamming reported in parts of southern Israel and Jordan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Intense enemy [US] military aircraft activity above Erbil province, northern Iraq." - Sabereen, pro-Iran Iraqi outlet.

🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡️- Numerous flights headed to Qatar and the UAE have started avoiding a large part of the airspace west of Dammam. The reason is unclear.

🇬🇧✝️⚡️- Longtime stage, TV, and voice actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at 86 years old.

Stewart is best known for his role as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Alongside Star Trek, his 60 year long career on film, TV, and the stage earned him 3 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy's and 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

🇸🇦⚡️- Traffic at the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam seems uninterrupted. However, the flights that have diverted from their trajectories have not resumed their normal routes.

🇮🇷⚡️- Renewed air defense activity on Qeshm Island, southern Iran.

🇸🇦⚡️- Air activity seems to have returned to normal with commercial airliners entering the area that was avoided 20 minutes ago. Disturbances are still recorded near Riyadh, with heavy GPS jamming around the Saudi capital.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- The Ramaswamy campaign has officially pulled the Acton ad off air after successfully destroying his chances of winning the election.

The ad was defended by President Trump, JD Vance, Don Jr, and the vast majority of MAGA world.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of plumes of smoke rising in Bandar-e-Jask, southern Iran.

Reports indicate strikes took place near the airport of the coastal city.

💲⚡️- BREAKING: Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked today, resulting in over $5.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.

Although Binance claims that all user funds are safe, today remains the largest crypto hack in history.

🇺🇸🇯🇵⚡️- The US and Japan have agreed to establish a new missile production facility in Japan under an initiative called Operation Supercharge. The facility will manufacture advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles used by F-35 fighters, expanding allied weapons production capacity in the Indo-Pacific.

The agreement was announced during defense talks in the Philippines, where Washington and its regional allies are strengthening military cooperation in response to growing tensions with China.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: US has been carrying out "self defense strikes" on missile launch sites across southern Iran over the past two weeks, Barak Ravid of Axios and Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US intelligence officials believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese espionage operation involving Alice Huang, a Chinese executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, according to The New York Times.

American surveillance reportedly revealed that Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with Nvidia's CEO while passing intelligence to Beijing. Megaspeed was already under investigation for potentially helping China obtain restricted American AI chips, which raised concerns about her access to one of America's most influential technology executives. President Trump was briefed on the intelligence roughly a year ago but reportedly chose not to act.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has expanded its military deployment in Haiti to approximately 2,000 soldiers, with reinforcements expected to bring the force to 2,500. Five Salvadoran military helicopters have also arrived in the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border, while American C-130 aircraft have assisted the troop airlift.

The Haiti Information Project reports that President Nayib Bukele may be planning a much larger force of 5,000 soldiers, including two special forces units and at least two additional helicopter squadrons. Those plans remain unconfirmed, but the deployment already represents a major escalation of Salvadoran military operations in Haiti.