Iran

• Trump says U.S. “not negotiating” with Iran, signals action “fairly soon”: President Donald Trump said the U.S. is “not negotiating” with Iran and that “something one way or the other” will happen “fairly soon,” pointing to the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.

  • “Most people seem to think it’s after the election, and we’re going to see what happens,” Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews. Asked whether he had finished negotiating with Tehran, he replied: “No, I think we’re not negotiating.”

  • “We are going to have something one way or the other. It’ll happen fairly soon,” he added.

• Iran says seven vessels hit in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz: Forces simultaneously struck four vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf, leaving all four burning, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claimed Thursday.

  • Three other vessels struck naval mines west of the Strait of Hormuz overnight, sustaining damage and catching fire before coming to a halt, according to the IRGC.

  • The IRGC said the four vessels had previously used shipping routes it declared prohibited despite Iranian warnings. It accused the U.S. military of encouraging vessels to cross mined routes.

  • The IRGC warned that further U.S. involvement in the maritime confrontation could prompt attacks on American military bases across the region.

• Israeli fighter jets flew toward Iranian border in provoking exercise: Dozens of Israeli fighter jets and refueling aircraft flew more than 800 miles through Syrian and Iraqi airspace toward Iran on Monday, following a route consistent with a potential strike before turning back near the Iranian border, according to Axios.

  • Israel notified Washington in advance, describing the operation as a training exercise intended to project military power and deter Iranian attacks ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections. U.S. officials said Israel knew Iranian air defenses would detect the aircraft, while some suspected Israel hoped Iran would fire on the jets, providing justification for renewed strikes.

  • On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei of allowing renewed nuclear weapons development, declaring that the only way to eliminate the alleged threat was to overthrow Iran’s government. He said he had issued that directive to the Israeli military, Mossad, and security agencies.

• U.S. denies reports of ordered departures from embassies across Gulf: State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott denied reports that Washington was preparing to order some personnel and family members to leave U.S. embassies across the Gulf, calling them “inaccurate,” amid reports of possible new escalation with Iran.

  • Pigott said that the State Department had issued an ordered departure for non-emergency U.S. government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia only, citing escalating Houthi attacks on civilian airports and critical infrastructure that have caused casualties and severe travel disruptions.

Palestine

• Scoop: UN abandons Rafah crossing as Israel arrests Palestinians returning to Gaza: The UN informed Palestinian officials that it will stop receiving Palestinians returning from Egypt and coordinating their entry into Gaza starting in mid-November, citing the dangers facing returnees and repeated Israeli arrests, a senior Palestinian source involved in negotiations told Drop Site News.

  • The decision follows Israel’s arrest of a Palestinian cancer patient and her daughter on Tuesday, the same day Rafah reopened after a roughly 10-day suspension triggered by the detention of another returnee.

  • “The United Nations will ask the parties concerned to provide an alternative entity to assume this responsibility; however, its withdrawal will proceed regardless of whether an alternative is secured,” the source told Drop Site.

  • Finding a replacement will be difficult, the source said, as transporting returnees requires coordination with Israel and passage through dangerous areas within the Yellow and Red Line zones. The Red Cross may be the only alternative, but its Gaza office previously declined, the source said, saying the task fell outside its mandate.

  • Nearly all Palestinians who leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing are medical evacuees and their companions through a process that is facilitated by the UN. While the UN will continue to facilitate medical evacuations, its decision to stop receiving Palestinians entering Gaza could affect the entire operation of the crossing, the source said, as Egypt might not agree to accept medical evacuees leaving Gaza unless they are allowed to return. Under a negotiated agreement, the number of Palestinians allowed to return into Gaza must equal the number allowed to leave.

  • “Maybe the Egyptians will say if no one is allowed to return, we will also not be part of, of receiving one from Gaza, which means at the end that the whole process is blocked,” the source said.

  • Drop Site is reaching out to the UN and will update this story when we receive a response.

• Killed and wounded in Gaza: Four Palestinians, including a girl, were killed Thursday by Israeli attacks across Gaza. A strike on a vehicle southwest of Gaza City killed two Palestinians, while gunfire and shelling in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza and west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed two other Palestinians, including a 17-year-old girl, Al Jazeera reported.

  • Over the past 24 hours, four Palestinians were killed—three in new Israeli attacks and one due to wounds sustained in earlier attacks—and 12 injured across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

  • The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023, is now 74,498 killed, with 175,616 injured. Since October 11, 2025, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,538 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,498, while 841 bodies have been recovered.

• Gaza faces critical flour shortage as remaining bakeries risk closure within 48 hours: Flour stocks in Gaza’s warehouses are completely depleted, leaving a 100% shortage and threatening to shut down the seven remaining operational bakeries within 48 hours unless new supplies enter, according to the head of Gaza’s Bakers Association.

  • Only seven of Gaza’s 20 bakeries remain operational after Israel closed the crossings over the past week and continued blocking commercial flour imports despite partially reopening them.

  • Flour currently available in Gaza’s markets comes from the World Food Programme (WFP), while commercial bakeries dependent on imports through the crossings have stopped operating. The WFP decided on Monday to cut food assistance to more than half a million Palestinians in Gaza due to funding shortages.

• Israeli settlers and soldiers continue attacks on olive harvesters across the occupied West Bank:

  • Jenin: Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Khirbet Al-Makhal on Thursday, forcing them to abandon their harvest before stealing 17 bags of olives and harvesting equipment, WAFA reported.

    • Israeli forces closed roads and village entrances, prevented farmers from reaching their land, and continued bulldozing land for a settlement road, severing the main paved road between Silat Al-Dhahr and Al-Attara.

  • Salfit: Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian olive pickers and foreign solidarity activists in Wadi Yasuf, forcing them to abandon their harvested olives.

  • Qalqilya: Israeli forces raided the Al-Wajh area, forcing Palestinian farmers off their land.

• 409 Israeli attacks on Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank in three weeks: Israeli settlers and soldiers carried out 409 attacks against Palestinian olive farmers, their trees, land, and agricultural equipment between October 1 and 21, including 317 by settlers and 92 by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.

  • The commission documented 287 incidents directly targeting farmers, including 50 physical assaults, 14 incidents involving pepper spray or projectiles, and 11 shootings. One Palestinian was killed by settler gunfire while harvesting olives near Burqa, northwest of Nablus, on October 7.

Yemen

• Four killed in attacks on Saudi Arabia airport, oilfield: An attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on Wednesday killed two and injured eight others, with injuries ranging from minor to critical, according to Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation.

  • Two other people were killed and two wounded when Saudi air defenses shot down a drone targeting Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield, southeast of the Kingdom.

  • The Saudi-led coalition also claimed the interception and destruction of nine drones: four in the Eastern Province, one in Riyadh, and four across the Riyadh and Medina regions.

  • Ansarallah claimed attacks targeting Saudi’s Defense Ministry in Riyadh, Aramco facilities in Yanbu, Abha International Airport, and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam over the past 48 hours.

• Two killed in Taiz as clashes continue: Airstrikes targeted Ansarallah fighters and vehicles in Al-Maafer district, south of Taiz, according to Al Jazeera. Ansarallah-affiliated media also reported three airstrikes on the Al-Sarari area.

  • Ansarallah rocket shelling and sniper fire killed two civilians, including a young girl, and wounded five others, including women, children, and elderly people, across several areas of Taiz on Wednesday, according to Saudi-backed forces.

• Yemen’s Saudi-backed forces declare gatherings in Ansarallah-held areas “legitimate military targets”: Yemen’s Saudi-backed government declared that tribal rallies and other civilian public gatherings in areas controlled by Ansarallah will be treated as “legitimate military targets.”

  • In a statement, its Defense Ministry warned civilians not to attend gatherings like tribal mobilizations, mass rallies or “cultural courses,” which it said Ansarallah uses to recruit “children, young people” and send them “into the furnaces of death.”

  • Under international law, civilians at such gatherings cannot be targeted unless they are directly taking part in hostilities. The Saudi-led coalition has hit civilian gatherings before. In one incident, in an October 2016 strike on a funeral hall in Sana’a, the Saudi coalition killed more than 140 Yemenis.

• Ansarallah says Saudi Arabia struck vessel carrying 14 Indian nationals in Red Sea: Saudi forces targeted an Indian yacht carrying 14 Indian nationals near Zuqar Island in the Red Sea, close to the Bab al-Mandab Strait, according to Ansarallah military spokesperson Yahya Saree. He claimed Ansarallah forces were conducting rescue operations.

  • “This reckless act by the Saudi enemy threatens international navigation in the Red Sea, and the international community must stop the Saudi enemy from such irresponsible actions,” Saree said.

Lebanon

• Israeli ceasefire violations continue across southern Lebanon:

  • Nabatieh: Israeli forces struck Kfartibnit on Thursday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

  • Marjayoun: Israeli forces carried out large explosions in Bani Hayyan and Markaba, while warplanes struck Qantara.

  • Tyre (Sour): Israeli artillery shelled Wadi Zibqin, while a drone dropped a stun grenade near a fishing boat off the coast of Al-Amriyeh.

  • Hasbaya: An Israeli force of approximately 20 soldiers and four tanks advanced toward the Nabaa Al-Khoukh area, firing machine guns and conducting raids.

U.S. News

• Zuckerberg, Meta making plans to pay California wealth tax: Economist Gabriel Zucman spotted a revelation in Meta’s recent SEC filing that Mark Zuckerberg intends to pay the one-time 5% wealth tax that California is voting on in two weeks. (Polls show the measure losing narrowly.) Zuckerberg has threatened to leave California if the tax is approved, but the filing suggests he was bluffing. Meta announced a deal Wednesday that would allow him to sell non-voting shares to cover the wealth tax.

• Shape and size of blue wave in House begins to clarify: Republican polling analyst Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics has been among the loudest voices cautioning that the media may be overestimating the size of the Democratic wave that is forming. So he teamed up with Emerson to put 10 polls into the field to test key House races in Republican-leaning districts. What he found spells disaster for Republicans: Democrats are winning in nine of the 10.

  • In Mighigan’s seventh district, Will Lawrence—who led the push against data centers and regularly condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza—is up by a striking 8 points over incumbent Republican Tom Barrett.

  • In western North Carolina, a seat currently held by Republicans, the Democrat, farmer Jamie Ager, is up by 13 (!) in a district that Republicans won by 13 points in 2024.

  • Union smokejumper Sam Forstag, backed in the primary by AOC and other progressives, is up by 4 in Montana’s first district.

  • The wave could also wash out prominent Republicans: Ann Wagner has represented Missouri’s St. Louis suburbs since 2012, serving as a powerful subcommittee chair on Financial Services, but is down five in Trende’s poll.

  • Populist Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, meanwhile, is up four against lobbyist-turned-congressman Rob Bresnahan.

  • The only race Trende found Republicans winning was in Arkansas.

  • In another North Carolina race, antiwar Democrat Richard Ojeda, a retired Army Major, is in a close race to represent Ft. Bragg, a seat currently held by Richard Hudson, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. In other words, the congressman who is leading the Republican effort to hold on to the majority may himself lose his seat—a fate that almost never befalls the chair of such a committee.

  • On Friday, AOC will rally with Randy Villegas in Bakersfield, California, part of the left’s effort to prove their brand of populism can work not just in deep blue districts but against Republican incumbents.

• In debate, Mike Rogers resorts to Islamophobic talking points: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers threw an incoherent mad lib of Islamophobic talking points at Abdul El-Sayed in last night’s debate. “He asked the new Muslim Brotherhood head Morsi in Egypt to defund the police there too,” Rogers said. Otherwise, El-Sayed hammered Rogers repeatedly for his support of Trump’s war on Iran and for the resulting cost-of-living crisis.

• U.S. accuses Canada of interfering in its elections: The U.S. embassy in Ottawa released a “fact sheet” to journalists on Wednesday accusing several prominent Canadian politicians of interfering in its elections, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, and Bernadette Jordan. Prime Minister Mark Carney brushed off the allegations at a Wednesday conference, and Ford, who was accused of interference, directly denied the charge.

  • Separately on Wednesday, two ranking Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Jim Himes (D-Conn.), announced that they were anticipating that Trump might attempt to undermine the midterm election results by claiming foreign election interference, and that they were ready to contest these claims should they surface on Election Day.

• Trump administration releases heating oil reserves to northeast, aiming to lower consumer costs: The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it will release up to one-third of Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in an effort to lower fuel costs in the area. The move also comes as Maine’s Republican Senator Susan Collins battles for re-election against Troy Jackson, a former logger and state senator. About 3% of U.S. households rely on heating oil, most of them in the Northeast; its price has more than doubled to $6.14 a gallon over the last year. Home heating oil is closely related to diesel, which has seen the biggest spike in price.

• Carr threatens to punish broadcasters for airing “fake polls”: Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, warned broadcasters on Wednesday they could be punished for sharing polls the administration believes deceive viewers. Echoing Trump, who frequently complains about poll numbers, he wrote on X that “During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls,” and “advised” them ”to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes. ”

• CBS: Federal agents knock on doors in search for noncitizen voters: DHS agents, armed and in uniform, are knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status and to see if they have registered to vote, according to a CBS investigation published on Wednesday. The visits scaled up in September and continued over the weekend, the report notes, with one party descending on the home of a 72-year-old Belizean-American, who the administration alleges voted illegally and who the party seized from his home in his pajamas. In one video of such an operation published by the agency, agents are filmed holding a document that says, “Target List.”

  • The deployments are highly unusual. “In my 23 years with HSI, I never engaged in or was aware of any incident or initiative that sent Special Agents to private residences to verify the eligibility of voters,” a former Homeland Security Investigations official told the outlet.

• DOJ weighs lawsuits against more states over alleged noncitizen voters, possibly before or after the midterms: After filing suit against California, a DOJ official told NBC News the department is considering suing additional states, focusing on those that automatically mail ballots to registered voters, though the official wouldn’t name them. California does so, as do seven other all-mail states (Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington) plus Washington, D.C. The official said DOJ will keep pressing California to segregate the disputed ballots and believes it can do so for 30 days after Election Day while counties certify results, but wouldn’t say whether DOJ would seek to delay certification there or elsewhere, which would be a major escalation.

  • The California suit is under scrutiny over the list’s reliability. Los Angeles County’s sample review found nearly half the records were canceled or inactive registrations, over 70 percent had no voting history, and roughly one in four listed a U.S. birthplace.

• AIPAC ends endorsements and direct PAC contributions, keeps super PAC and individual fundraising: AIPAC announced Wednesday that after three cycles of direct political involvement through AIPAC PAC, it will no longer issue endorsements, make direct PAC contributions or earmark donations to candidates. It noted, however, that its United Democracy Project super PAC would continue. A letter to members, signed by President Bernie Kaminetsky, Board Chair Michael Tuchin, President-Elect Yehuda Neuberger and CEO Elliot Brandt, says the change follows a months-long board review and will let the group “prioritize increasing direct, organized contributions from individual Americans to candidates” and use “emerging political fundraising tools.” Staff and local leaders will still recommend candidates “worthy of your support.”

  • Spokesperson Deryn Sousa said members gave over $90 million to candidates this cycle, including earmarked gifts, versus over $3 million in direct PAC donations, and PACs are capped at $10,000 per candidate per cycle. She called UDP “one of the most important tool” for defeating “anti-Israel candidates” and said AIPAC helped 290 candidates win this cycle.

• SCOTUS refuses Trump administration attempt to restrict hormone treatment, surgery for transgender prisoners: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to lift a lower judge’s block on a Bureau of Prisons policy that would restrict hormone treatments for prisoners now receiving them and stop providing accommodations like hair-removal devices. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented.

• Meta hit with $25 billion fine for deceiving users: On Wednesday, Judge Francis J. Mathew of Santa Fe’s State District Court issued a $25 billion penalty against Meta for “purposefully” misleading users about its data-privacy policies. Last month, a jury found that Meta violated state consumer-protection laws 43 million times.

• TAP: Sen. Roger Marshall’s business partner and donor ran private equity empire behind hospital collapses: Kansas private equity magnate Dan Tasset, whose firm Nueterra says it has developed more than 150 surgical facilities across 38 states, has been Kansas Senator Roger Marshall’s business partner for nearly 30 years. Tasset and his employees have given Marshall’s campaigns over $218,000, and a Tasset-affiliated company gave $100,000 to a pro-Marshall super PAC in 2020. In addition, Marshall’s son Victor has worked for a Tasset-owned entity since 2019 and lives in a Washington property whose authorized agent is Tasset.

  • Several hospitals owned by Nueterra have collapsed, The American Prospect reported. Two Noble Health hospitals that closed in Missouri in 2022 owed creditors an estimated $45 to $50 million. More than 440 employees went unpaid, and the Labor Department estimated worker damages at $5.4 million. Another hospital, Miami International Medical Center, closed in 2016 with $15.2 million in unpaid bills.

  • Read the American Prospect report by David Dayen and Maureen Tkacik here.

Other International News

• Cyber agencies worldwide urge organizations to take sites offline after OpenAI model finds critical PHP flaws: U.S., European, Australian, and Canadian cyber agencies urged organizations Wednesday to take websites offline immediately if they can’t patch “critical errors” in the PHP coding language, foundational for much of the web. The Israeli-American cloud computing firm Wiz estimates that up to 70 percent of the internet could be affected by the bug. The NSA said the flaws “often provide a direct path to the server’s file system or database” and advised taking systems offline if an update isn’t feasible. CISA said it had not observed exploitation.

  • The PHP Foundation issued patches Wednesday. Sites already offline included Dutch and Belgian cyber agencies, several Finnish and Dutch government sites, a French domain name organization and the main page of the French tax portal.

• Russian strikes on Kyiv injure six; Ukrainian strikes on Russia kill one and wound 3: Russian forces launched ballistic missiles at Kyiv on Wednesday, injuring six people. The attacks also damaged homes, a gas station, and transport equipment.

  • In the Russian border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drone strikes killed one man and wounded another. Near Moscow, Ukrainian strikes wounded two people.

• German military designates Russian sabotage a “significant” threat: The German military labeled the threat of Russian sabotage against it “significant,” according to the German news outlets WDR and Sueddeutsche Zeitung. This is the second-highest designation on the country’s internal threat scale. The escalation was reportedly triggered in September by the discovery of a crashed drone carrying high explosives near an air base in northwestern Germany. This incident crossed a “red line of harmful intent involving kinetic and/or lethal effect,” an internal document said. Russia denies involvement in the episode.

• MI5 spied on founder of Britain’s National Health Service for decades, newly declassified documents show: Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, secretly monitored Nye Bevan, the architect of Britain’s National Health Service, for three decades because of his links to the Communist Party and his criticism of the British government during World War Two, according to newly declassified documents. MI5 spied on Bevan from 1933 until his death in 1960. The agency did not believe that he posed a threat to the country. An MI5 memo written in 1955 said, “What information we have on Bevan’s relations with the Communist Party since 1943 show that from time to time both the Communist Party and the Trotskyists have made attempts to get him to work with them without success.”

• First Ebola case in Nigeria matches strain from Congo: Nigeria’s first Ebola patient is infected with the Bundibugyo strain that has spread widely across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, news agencies reported. There is no vaccine or treatment for the strain. The Nigerian patient infected by Ebola is a diplomat who traveled to Uganda earlier this month. She is experiencing “multi-organ failure,” an unnamed official told AFP.

• Tunisia imprisons 10 people for protesting pollution: A Tunisian court sentenced 10 environmental activists to up to a year in prison on Tuesday. They were found guilty of a 2020 protest against a state-run phosphate processing factory, which can discharge radioactive waste and gases known to cause cancer. The 10 activists believed that the case against them had been dropped. In March, they learned that the state sentenced them in absentia.

• Egyptian authorities question co-founder of independent news outlet Mada Masr: Egyptian authorities summoned Lina Attalah, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, for questioning on Tuesday. The summons followed Mada Masr reporting on violations of Egyptian prisoners’ rights. “Prosecutors have been investigating Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah for three hours at the headquarters of the Supreme State Security Prosecution in New Cairo,” Mada Masr wrote on X. “Her defence team has been present with her throughout the questioning. The investigation session is ongoing.”

• North Korea to deploy border loudspeakers against South Korea: Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, announced that North Korea would place loudspeakers on the border by the end of October, Reuters reported. Both countries have historically placed loudspeakers on their border to broadcast propaganda. Kim said that newly-repositioned troops would “mercilessly eliminate” South Korean forces if it harmed North Korean personnel or territory.

• China accuses Philippines of “illegally” resupplying on disputed shoal; Philippines and Taiwan talk about deepening ties: The Chinese Coast Guard monitored a Philippine ship conducting a resupply operation on the Second Thomas Shoal, and said that the Philippine vessel was “illegally grounded” there. China claims the shoal as its territory.

  • Separately, the Philippines is engaging in “practical and more pragmatic approaches in ​cooperation” with Taiwan, a Philippine diplomat said on Wednesday. The talks focus on protecting submarine cables. Officially, the Philippines recognizes China’s sovereign control over Taiwan.

• Key opposition leader arrested in Ecuador: Ecuadorian authorities detained Luisa González, the left-wing Citizens’ Revolution movement’s two-time presidential candidate, on Thursday on charges related to alleged money laundering and irregular campaign financing. The arrest of a key opposition figure comes after González was prevented from running for political office in the province of Manabí and follows an earlier ban of her political party from contesting elections set to take place at the end of November. President Daniel Noboa, who defeated González in the 2025 runoff, has faced accusations that his government is using state institutions to target political opponents.

• El Salvador launches operation to rescue missing personnel in Haiti: The El Salvadoran military launched an operation to rescue four missing personnel in Haiti, Reuters reported. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele claimed that Haitian gangs kidnapped the four Salvadorans and are holding them hostage. The four Salvadorans, working for the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force, went missing on Sunday after heavily armed gangs ambushed their vehicle near Port-au-Prince.

• U.S. threatens sanctions for countries supporting Cuba at UN, Cuba diplomat says: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. of threatening UN member states with sanctions if they vote next week to end the U.S. embargo of Cuba. Rodriguez said the U.S. threats comprise an “unprecedented” pressure campaign conducted in “a brazen manner.” U.S. punishments include visa denials, economic sanctions, and even “support for forces opposed to those governments,” Rodriguez told reporters. Earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz publicly called on UN member states to oppose the resolution. The vote on the resolution, which is recorded annually, has passed by wide margins every year since 1992.

• Mexican prosecutors charge ex-official with treason over U.S. collaboration: Mexican federal prosecutors imposed a rarely used treason charge on Cesar Jauregui, a state prosecutor accused of allowing U.S. forces to take part in an April drug raid in Chihuahua without the federal government’s approval. Jauregui will be held in pretrial detention until the court decides if evidence is sufficient to proceed.

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