The dominant political story of the hour was Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost Michigan's August Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed and then endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in a video posted to X ^1,2. She acted after El-Sayed disinvited her from a party-unity event . Chuck Schumer called it a 'despicable betrayal' ³, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani also rebuked her ⁴. Several of her staff resigned, including her chief of staff , and hecklers branded her a 'traitor' ⁵. In a parallel cross-party move, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien said he voted for Republican Sen. Ashley Moody over Democrat Angie Nixon in Florida's special Senate election ⁶. Tuesday's US midterms are the reference point for several stories. Carney said Canada-US trade talks are moving forward before the vote ⁷, while Trump spoke of a deal 'concept' ⁸. Axios reported that Netanyahu is pressing Trump to strike Iran once the midterms are over, though Trump currently leans toward diplomacy ⁹. Netanyahu's own election is under dispute. His voter-fraud claims rest on nebulous cases ¹⁰, and Israel's election chief says the results won't change ¹¹. In Ukraine, the Air Force said the national air raid alert system was hacked late on Nov. 1, setting off false nuclear and chemical warnings across the country ¹². Kyiv authorities said there is no radiation threat ¹³. In crypto, Binance customers withdrew $3.64 billion as the exchange came back online after a $6.3 billion hack that the FBI links to North Korea ¹⁴. XRP ended October down almost 19% after that hack dragged the market lower ¹⁵, and Bitcoin traded near $77,530 ¹⁶. Separately, a Linux kernel vulnerability led Intersect to warn Cardano pool operators of a 9.8-severity flaw ¹⁷. Threshold said every tBTC node operator either patched or went offline over the same flaw, and tBTC minting and redemptions remain paused ¹⁸. Elsewhere, Anthropic released its S-1 IPO filing, with a reported potential valuation of $1.5-2 trillion ¹⁹. Sen. Chris Murphy is hospitalized after a stroke ²⁰. A Learjet 60 crashed into a residential area of Palm Beach County, killing all nine aboard ^21,22. The UN's 35-year Western Sahara mission ended ²³. In Sudan, drone strikes attributed to the RSF knocked out substations in two northern towns .