🇲🇽 🐂 USDA is pressing ahead with plans to reopen southern border crossings to Mexican cattle, even as New World screwworm shows up in new places on the U.S. side — including, for the first time, in American wildlife. 🪱 The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the parasite in an elk harvested by a hunter on a game ranch in Pecos County, Texas. The same day, New Mexico's Department of Agriculture confirmed a case in a beef cow in Otero County. Texas is redrawing its infested zone around the elk detection, and USDA along with Texas Parks and Wildlife are expanding surveillance in the area. Follow @warstrike88

🇺🇸 ✡️ 🇮🇱 U.S. and Israeli Jews are drawing tighter together as JFNA researchers find a deepening sense of shared identity on both sides of the Atlantic, according to recent polling. 🔵 Based on data gathered in May & June, American and Israeli Jews feel closer to one another today than they have in years, and that closeness has only been increasing since Oct. 7. Follow @warstrike88

✡️ Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, secretly gained access to about $2 billion from the governments of the UAE and Saudi Arabia during Trump’s first administration in exchange for advancing their political interests in Washington, according to an investigative report published by Vanity Fair on 23 October. 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 The $750 million deposit reportedly originated from UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). Kushner used the funds to make transfers to various individuals, including “a warlord, a mercenary, and a one-time hit man.” Follow @warstrike88

🇮🇱 The Telegraph examines the possibility of civil war amid mounting political, religious and military divisions ahead of Israel’s election. 💥 The report discusses a CIA assessment reported by Drop Site News and analysts’ warnings of internal confrontation. ⭕️ Resistance to conscription, settler attacks and growing support for expelling Palestinians feature prominently in the newspaper’s findings. Follow @warstrike88

🇺🇲 Senior US Department of War officials intend to delay publishing an internal investigation into a strike that killed at least 123 Iranian schoolchildren until after the upcoming midterm elections, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. 💥 The investigation concerns the February 28 US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, southern Iran. Multiple educators were also killed in the attack, which occurred during the opening hours of the US-Israeli war on Iran. ⭕️ Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that senior officials had opted to hold the completed review until November to avoid political fallout before the elections. Follow @warstrike88