I'm Samantha Sharis, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the daily signal top news for Wednesday, October 11th.

Here are today's headlines.

Israel has formed a wartime cabinet just days after the terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack against the country.

According to the Washington Examiner, the cabinet will include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, and Defense Minister Yuaav Gollant.

Former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Gadi Eisenkot, and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Durmer, will join the cabinet as observers at the Washington Examiner also reported.

More than 2,200 people have been killed from both sides.

We reported on yesterday's show that 14 American citizens had been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas.

However, we learned from the State Department today that that number has risen to at least 22.

Our colleague Tyler O'Neil reported that Hamas issued a declaration of a general mobilization Tuesday in what an expert warned was an unambiguous call to arms.

The statement reads as translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a call to our Palestinian people, the masses of the Arab and Islamic world, and free people worldwide.

We declare next Friday the Friday of the Al-Aqsa flood as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world.

Robert Greenway, Director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal that the statement will result in bloodshed.

Greenway said it is an unambiguous, global call to arms.

It will be heated. There will be blood.

You can check out Tyler's full report in today's show notes.

More than a week after former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has secured the party's nomination for that position.

Scalise secured the nomination in a vote of 113 to 99 and defeated House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Scalise now faces a full house vote where he will be required to receive 217 votes in order to become the next speaker.

McCarthy of course lost his job as House Speaker on October 3 after eight Republicans and all Democrats voted to remove him.

As you'll recall from earlier this year, it took 15 rounds of voting for McCarthy to win the speakership back in January.

Oklahoma Republican Representative Kevin Herne announced today that he is running to replace Scalise as House Majority Leader.

In a letter to his colleagues shared on X, of course, formally Twitter, Herne said, my whole life, I've been told I couldn't be successful, couldn't go to college, couldn't become an engineer.

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