Polymarket Intel

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the anonymous email: "We will not let an anonymous email decide our children's school calendar. Whoever did this wanted a nation that was paralyzed and afraid. They will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes its children to school, and goes to work. That is the response, and it is the strongest one we have."

Vice President JD Vance is emerging as the lead U.S. negotiator with Iran and has taken a more active role in diplomacy with Tehran recently. In recent days, Trump told top aides and foreign counterparts he is open to Vance restarting talks. He has empowered Vance to negotiate. Vance is considering an in-person meeting with a top Iranian security official. U.S. officials stress those discussions are still preliminary. Iran's demands remain entirely unrealistic, according to U.S. officials. Wall Street Journal

President Trump is open to Vice President JD Vance restarting talks with Iran, and Vance is weighing an in-person meeting with Iran's Rezaei, according to the Wall Street Journal.

All military bases and interests of the "enemy" are within direct range of Iranian missiles and drones, according to the deputy chief of Iran's Armed Forces General Staff. He added that the conflict with the United States has expanded into a regional war.

U.S. military: Iran is still being prevented from using land routes and the Caspian Sea to transport weapons. The blockade has kept Iran from exporting 30 billion barrels of oil. A total of 1.7 billion barrels of oil have been shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Qalibaf: Trump should know that if he decides to go to war again, he will definitely face a defeat in war, just like the political defeat he suffered in the election, which will lead to his impeachment in Congress from a political perspective.

Iran's Qalibaf: The ball is now in America's court; it is they who must decide and announce their decision.   For any continuation of negotiations, they must implement the seven conditions that have been set.'

Russian Foreign Ministry: Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., has died.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Mohsen Rezaei: I advise all countries that host U.S. military bases on their territory not to cooperate with any U.S. military attack against Iran. We will consider any location from which American aircraft take off to be a threat to us. We are making this clear now so that they will have no excuses tomorrow.

Joe Biden on his disastrous 2024 debate with Trump: I don't know anybody who hadn't made a mistake in the debate. To me, it was not very consequential. First of all, I thought there'd be another debate, which there wasn't. But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential.

U.S. envoy Jared Kushner on the Abu Dhabi talks with Russia and Ukraine: good conversations, and agreement on the largest prisoner of war exchange since the war began. Territory and the most difficult issues were discussed. Kushner called peace deals complex but said all the ingredients for a deal are there. The Russian side wants more progress before Putin and Zelensky meet. Kushner: There is no love or trust between the leaders. A Ukrainian negotiator said Kyiv heard no ultimatums from either side.

Jared Kushner after Abu Dhabi talks: Some things are clearly not working, which is why we're in the fifth year of the longest war that Europe has seen in a long time.

300 schools in Italy hit by emailed bomb threats. Schools in several regions were evacuated, per police. The Education Minister expects the number to rise.

Territorial issues between Moscow and Kyiv may come up as Russia, the United States and Ukraine opened a second day of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, according to IRNA, citing European sources.

Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei, speaking to Hezbollah's Al-Mayadeen network: "We will not allow even a single particle of enriched nuclear material to leave Iran."

Adults 21 and older in Texas could carry 2 to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and grow up to 12 plants under new Democratic bills. Rep. Jessica González (D-Dallas) filed HB 195 in the House. Sen. Sarah Eckhardt filed SB 209 in the Senate. Both were prefiled ahead of the 2027 legislative session. Recreational marijuana is still illegal in Texas. Cannabis Business Times

Rep. Jim Jordan elected House Minority Leader.

An investigation is underway into what caused a fire on a platform in Iran's South Pars field, according to Fars News Agency. The situation is now under control.

Two properties in Gloucestershire are being searched in a Russia espionage probe involving a U.S. Army member. British counter-terrorism police arrested the 41-year-old near Gloucester on Tuesday, November 10. He remains at a London police station. The arrest falls under Sections 1 and 3 of the National Security Act 2023. Counter Terrorism Policing leads the investigation alongside MI5, the U.S. military and the FBI. FBI Director Kash Patel called the allegations of the utmost concern. Brig. Gen. Sean Stinchon of U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command credited the joint work with UK authorities and warned that insider threats remain persistent. - BBC News

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Mohsen Rezaei: U.S. claims about continued negotiations with Iran and a meeting in Qatar are completely false. We have asked the Americans to provide a clear and explicit response to our conditions, but they have not done so yet. Claims that a meeting is being planned between me and JD Vance are also completely false and baseless.