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F.B.I. Says Israel-Hamas War Raises Potential for Attack Against Americans in the U.S. . . . The F.B.I. director warned Tuesday that the Israel-Hamas war had raised the potential for an attack against Americans to a new level and escalated threats against Jews and Muslims in the United States. New York Times

Is the Biden administration preparing for the wrong kind of war with Iran? . . . By Rebekah Koffler. As the Israeli military entered "the second stage of the war," having expanded its ground operation in northern Gaza on Monday, aiming to eliminate the Hamas terrorist threat once and for all, fears are growing over the conflict escalating into a broader war in the Middle East.

The Pentagon has beefed up U.S. force posture in the region and launched retaliatory airstrikes on two Iran-linked weapons and ammunition storage facilities in Syria, in an effort to deter Teheran from ratcheting up hostilities and expanding the conflict. Sending two carrier strike groups to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, authorizing the deployment a terminal high-altitude area defense (THAAD) battery and additional Patriot battalions to the region, as the Pentagon has done, is a good strategic messaging campaign.

But it does nothing to counter the threat posed by Iran and its proxies here in America. The Biden administration is likely preparing for a wrong kind of war and must shift its strategy. Rather than focusing exclusively on preventing a multi-front war in the Middle East, President Biden must first and foremost keep the Iranian threat away from the U.S. homeland. Rebekah Koffler | Fox News

Letitia James goes after Trump’s family, puts his children on the witness stand in N.Y. trial . . . Former President Donald Trump’s oldest child is scheduled to take the witness stand Wednesday in the New York trial against the ex-president and his business, kicking off a chain of family testimony and high drama in the long-running civil case. New York Attorney General Letitia James and her team will confront Donald Trump Jr. with accusations the family business manipulated assets on financial forms to gain favorable terms on loans and insurance. His brother Eric Trump is scheduled to testify Thursday before his father — the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — and his daughter Ivanka Trump take the stand the following week. Washington Times

Stalinesque.

‘She’s Gaining, You’re Not’: Fox News Host Presses DeSantis Over Haley’s Polling Surge . . . Fox News host Neil Cavuto pressed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida about his inability to rise in the polls while former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s appears to be gaining traction among voters. DeSantis trails former President Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics.com average of polls taken from Oct. 4 to Oct. 29 by 46.4%, with Haley in third place with 8.3%. On Feb. 27, DeSantis trailed Trump, 43.2% to 30% in that average. Daily Caller

Ukraine aid could be Biden's first big battle with Johnson . . . President Joe Biden's first showdown with the new speaker of the House has already begun. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has rejected Biden's $106 billion supplemental funding request, which would have tied money for Israel to money for Ukraine, in favor of an Israel-only bill. Washington Examiner

U.S. All but Stopped Spying on Hamas in Years After 9/11 . . . U.S. intelligence agencies all but stopped spying on Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., instead directing resources to the hunt for the leaders of al Qaeda and, later, Islamic State, according to U.S. officials familiar with the shift. Calculating that Hamas had never directly threatened the U.S. and burdened with other spying priorities, Washington ceded the responsibility to Israel, confident that its aggressive security services would detect any threat, the U.S. officials said. It should have been “a well-placed bet,” said one senior counterterrorism official. With more than 30 Americans dead and 10 missing, mounting fears of a regional war, and billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware headed to the Middle East since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, some officials say the U.S. misjudged the threat to U.S. national security. Wall Street Journal

WSJ has been doing some kick-butt reporting lately!

Israel deploys missile boats in Red Sea as Houthis attack from Yemen . . . The Israeli military said it had deployed missile boats in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. Images disseminated by the military showed Saar-class corvettes patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea, which Israel sees as a new front as its war in Gaza draws retaliation from Iran-aligned pro-Hamas forces elsewhere in the region. Reuters

The West’s Defeat in Montenegro . . . By Miljan Vešović. The parliamentary majority in Montenegro elected Andrija Mandić, the leader of the pro-Serbian and pro-Russian party "For the Future of Montenegro" as the Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro on October 30th. Not long after that, with the support of the aforementioned pro-Serbian and pro-Russian parties, the new Government of Montenegro headed by Milojko Spajić was elected.

By his own admission, the new President of the Parliament of Montenegro has dual (Montenegrin and Serbian) citizenship. In accordance with the current regulations in Montenegro, this is illegal. AntenaM

Don't expect instant success, Ukraine's Zelenskiy warns as he rallies his troops . . . Ukraine's attacks on the Russian Navy in the Black Sea have crippled Moscow's war efforts, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, seeking to rally his troops even as the outside world expects instant successes. Despite Kyiv's gruelling months-long offensive, the vast frontline in Ukraine's east and south has moved little in the past year, spurring criticism and impatience among some of Ukraine's Western allies. Reuters

Money

McDonald’s, Chipotle to hike menu prices after California Gov. Newsom approves $20 fast food minimum wage . . . McDonald’s Big Macs and Chipotle’s burritos are about to get more expensive after the fast-food chains announced that they will raise menu prices in California to pay for the minimum wage hikes that Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law. Fox Business

Here’s everything to expect from the Fed’s policy announcement Wednesday . . . There’s virtually no chance policymakers will make a move either way on interest rates when the Fed concludes its two-day meeting Wednesday. What investors will watch, instead, are the signals that come from Chair Jerome Powell and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee about where they’re leaning for the future. CNBC

US real estate agents liable for $1.8bn over broker fees on home purchases . . .  The US’s largest real estate brokerage agencies have been found liable for almost $1.8bn in damages over an alleged seven-year conspiracy to force home sellers to pay hefty commissions to buyers’ brokers, in a decision that sent related stocks lower. The verdict on Tuesday against the National Association of Realtors, which represents 1.5mn agents, and market leaders including several Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries and Keller Williams Realty, came at the end of a trial in which the industry was accused of adopting anti-competitive rules that require sellers to commit 3 per cent of a property’s sale price to buyers’ brokers.

The rules pertain to classifieds posted on the Multiple Listing Service platform, a database of homes for sale operated by local NAR associations. Financial Times
 

Culture

George Soros’ foundations doled out millions to groups behind anti-Israel protests, rhetoric . . . Before the Israel-Hamas war began, a nonprofit called Adalah—The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel routinely released reports and filed petitions in the Israeli Supreme Court accusing the government of serious misconduct. One report alleged Benjamin Netanyahu's administration was "instituting racial segregation" and engaging in "Judaization" through its housing policy. Another claimed that Israeli police forced had "total impunity" to kill Palestinians. A third unsuccessfully argued that Israel should lift its travel ban on a Palestinian sheikh previously arrested in 2003 over allegations of raising millions for Hamas. Just the News

'We Only Want One Side to Stop Fighting': Meet the Minneapolis Public School Teacher Who Called For Israel's Eradication at Socialist Rally . . . A Minneapolis public school teacher called for the eradication of the Jewish state during an event commemorating "past socialist revolutions," stating that she does not support a "complete ceasefire" in Israel because she "only want[s] one side to stop fighting." Free Beacon

All Saints Day: What is this occasion and why is it celebrated? . . . Christians around the world mark All Saints Day on November 1, a day when "heaven comes that much closer to this side of eternity," as a Catholic priest told Fox News Digital this week. Also known as "All Hallows' Day" or the "Solemnity of All Saints," All Saints Day is a celebration of saints, both known and unknown. It is followed by All Souls Day, observed on November 2. Fox News

Stuart Varney: Donald Trump has a bold plan for the mentally ill . . . During his "My Take," Tuesday, "Varney & Co." host Stuart Varney discussed Donald Trump's "highly controversial" plan to bring back psychiatric hospitals, arguing the move is a step to address our nation's mental health crisis while a "dithering" Biden administration remains racked by internal conflict. Fox Business

Donald Trump and Melania seen together for first time in months at Mar-a-Lago Halloween party . . . Donald and Melania Trump were spotted together for the first time in seven months, as the former president remains embroiled in several legal fights. The couple made their grand entrance at this year’s Halloween party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday night, with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” blaring, video posted to social media shows. New York Post

Tucker Carlson Reveals The One Substance That Can Save American Men In The Bedroom, And It Rhymes With Sin . . . Viagra finally has some stiff competition that will save American men from a devastating fertility crisis. Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson rocked the medical establishment Tuesday when he revealed that Zyn, the sublime, smokeless nicotine pouches keeping elite U.S. youth steadily buzzed, can cure *cough* ED, and even enhance male sexual performance. SATIRE Daily Caller

Secret Service Mistakenly Spends Four Hours Protecting Halloween Butler Decoration . . . n an embarrassing gaffe, several members of the United States Secret Service spent over four hours protecting what turned out to just be a Halloween butler decoration in the entryway of the White House. "Ah, crap. We could've sworn it was POTUS," said Captain Cody Callow, one of the agents left red-faced after the realization they had been guarding a mannequin of a creepy butler purchased from Walmart. "In my defense, it's not the first time this has happened. Speaking of which, has anyone seen POTUS?" Babylon Bee