Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · Evening Edition

Today

By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Even as Trump insists the fighting is finished, the United States is still striking Iran, with the White House declining to report on the attacks of the past several weeks. Former defense intelligence analyst Harrison Mann warns that even if a nuclear strike stays improbable, Trump's endless threats and wars of aggression raise the likelihood of a nuclear exchange all the same.

On Election Day, Trump used a Fox News interview to announce that the U.S. will stop giving Israel weapons for free because Abdul El-Sayed keeps talking about it — a stunt to strip a left candidate of a talking point, not a real break. The claim that Washington will end aid to Israel was deceitful: as one observer put it, “This is where Section 219 of the NDAA comes in,” warning the aid would simply move behind closed doors and out of the appropriations process.

Voters headed to the polls as gas prices hit an Election Day record, hammering working households. The coalition is cracking: Trump took 44% of Hispanic voters in 2024, but that support has eroded as his administration terrorizes their communities. Republicans know it — leaked texts show a GOP analyst conceding “God all my models are already projecting doom” in battleground Arizona. Jacobin notes the NY/Sienna poll has Democrats leading in all seven races that will decide the Senate, with the House all but gone.

Power does not surrender easily: in North Carolina, officials moved a longtime NC State polling place and student organizers scrambled to protect turnout. Defeat still carries consequences — Salon reports Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller bracing for a post-midterm investigation season — while the Court's conservatives weigh whether a state must fund religious schools once it funds any private preschools.