Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Wednesday that anyone expecting a shift in U.S. policy was "seriously mistaken", hours after midterm elections dealt a blow to President Donald Trump.

"Those who still harbor even the slightest hope that the behavior of the hegemonic system might change through partisan or factional shifts, or who imagine that making concessions to the United States can dissuade it from hostility towards the Iranian nation, are seriously mistaken," Khamenei said in a written statement published on his website.

Overnight attacks on critical infrastructure triggered power and water outages across Kyiv and surrounding regions Wednesday as rescuers combed through rubble in southern Ukraine, still searching for survivors three days after one of the deadliest attacks there in nearly five years of war.

On Monday, multiple Russian guided bombs had slammed into a school and shelter in the village of Komyshuvakha, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region. Authorities have confirmed 37 deaths and say some 38 may still be trapped.

Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump.

Tuesday's midterm elections laid bare voters' deep frustrations over high prices, the Iran war and concerns over government corruption. Democrats routed their rivals across the map, flipping states that have voted Republican for decades and that Trump won by double digits just two years ago.

Election Day is here. Voters nationwide will decide control of the U.S. House and Senate. Democrats must flip four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House to wrest control of the chambers from Republicans. Control of Congress would give Democrats a way to push back against President Donald Trump's agenda during the final two years of his term. The battle for control is playing out mostly in states and districts Trump previously won by wide margins.

All eyes are on Senate contests in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Texas, while House battlegrounds are scattered across the country.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East.

The Republican president told Fox News Channel during a phone call on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approached him about the idea and that they have been talking about it for a couple years.

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump will host "representatives" of Russia and Ukraine in Washington, the White House said Tuesday, without specifying a date or offering further details about who may attend.

The meeting between parties from the two warring countries will take place at the White House and represents an "extraordinary moment in American history," the statement said.

Detentions, resignations, switching of sides, attempts to destroy evidence of wrongdoing.

News has been coming in at such a pace in the wake of former Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic's electoral defeat on Oct. 25 that a website dubbed 'system breakdown' has been formed, with AI feeding the information in real time.

The Kremlin confirmed Tuesday that U.S.-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks to end more than four years of war will take place in Abu Dhabi next week.

"The Russian delegation will arrive on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi to take part in trilateral talks," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that presidential aide and former culture minister Vladimir Medinsky will represent Moscow at the meeting.

Russia pummeled Ukraine with a fresh wave of overnight strikes a day after a deadly bombing of an aid center killed at least 29 people, Kyiv said Tuesday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing the strikes as "terror."

Moscow launched the attacks a week before Russia-Ukraine-US talks are due to resume in Abu Dhabi.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signaled progress in talks with Iran to avoid a return to war, as Tehran said "intensive" exchanges were underway while offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under strict conditions.

A deal with Tehran "could happen," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, a day before crucial U.S. midterm elections. He added that "Iran wants a settlement, as soon as possible."