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Trump promises no Iran strikes before November 3, even as Brent crude tops $104 a barrel, while Nicolás Maduro and his wife face new U.S. torture charges. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Adobe are barred from a green card labor program, and mortgage rates hit a three-year high of 7.40%.

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Trump said in a Truth Social post that the US "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections" on November 3. He called Tehran talks "productive," a turn from his San Antonio rally Wednesday night, where he said a deal "isn't really something that I want to do."

Brent crude jumped more than 4% to above $104 a barrel Thursday after he told reporters Wednesday that renewed strikes before the election were under consideration. Gas averaged $4.36 a gallon nationally on Thursday, up roughly 40% from a year ago and from $2.98 just before the war began in late February.

Prosecutors added torture charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, saying thousands of Venezuelans and some Americans were tortured to keep them in power. The superseding indictment unsealed on Thursday cites electric shock, asphyxiation, starvation and threats against victims' children, and says Flores ordered people tortured and tracked specific prisoners.

Maduro's attorney said his client denies the new charges, and a judge on Thursday rejected Flores' request to leave a Brooklyn detention center for house arrest. Both have been jailed in New York since US forces seized them in a January raid in Caracas, and their trial is set for June 2027.

The Labor Department suspended Microsoft and Adobe from its green card labor certification program, along with Infosys, Tata, Wipro and three other firms, freezing new applications. Vice President Vance accused Microsoft of replacing American workers, citing 6,000 layoffs, and said "no company in the US has abused this system more than Microsoft."

Microsoft said 80% of its roughly 6,000 H-1B filings last fiscal year covered existing employees, and that "the vast majority" of its US workers are Americans. The suspension came the same day Trump was set to award the National Medal of Science to CEO Satya Nadella, who moved to America from India.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was ruled fit to stand trial by International Criminal Court judges, clearing the way for his drug-war crimes against humanity case to open November 30.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro, brother of presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, less than three weeks before the country's presidential runoff.

Hundreds of protesters camping in Madrid blame investment "vulture funds" for Spain's soaring rents, after an evicted 87-year-old woman, Maricarmen Abascal, died in a hospital on Wednesday.

The average 30-year mortgage rate climbed to 7.40% this week, its highest in nearly three years and a seventh straight weekly gain, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac.

The FBI and Justice Department seized hacking tools tied to Beijing that officials say a group called Flax Typhoon used against a US power company, foreign airports and critical infrastructure.

Curtis Flowers, tried six times in a 1996 Mississippi quadruple killing before the Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence in 2019, has died at 56.

Shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile tumbled after SpaceX agreed to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio meant to turn Starlink into a major US mobile carrier.

Chipotle stock jumped about 6% on a report that Starbucks has explored buying the burrito chain, a deal that would reunite Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol with his former company.

The Nasdaq composite slid 1.3% as technology stocks dragged on Wall Street Thursday, while the S&P 500 dipped 0.5% for a second straight loss and the Dow edged up 0.1%.

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The four members of NASA's Crew-12 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, ending an almost eight-month stay at the space station.

The United Arab Emirates finished building a 22-pound probe bound for the asteroid Justicia, and it now ships to the University of Colorado Boulder ahead of a March 2028 launch.

A California strawberry farmer testing steam nearly doubled his organic berry harvest on treated plots, part of a push to replace chemical fumigants used against soil diseases and weeds.

Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson won a record fifth WNBA MVP, the first to win three straight, joining Michael Jordan and Bill Russell as five-time winners.

Major League Baseball wants a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, plus best-of-seven division series, though the players' union says any changes hinge on players accepting a salary cap.

Broncos coach Sean Payton is reclaiming play-calling duties from coordinator Davis Webb after Denver managed just 13 first-half points in a 2-2 start, before Sunday's trip to the winless Chargers.

Former Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav walks away with $606 million from Paramount's takeover, an SEC filing shows, after shareholders symbolically rejected his golden parachute in June.

Taylor Swift is set to perform at the Academy Museum Gala on October 17, a key stop for Oscar hopefuls as her "Toy Story 5" single eyes a nomination.

Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Ronny Chieng are returning for HBO's "Crazy Rich Asians" series, with Michelle Yeoh recurring in the eight-episode sequel to the 2018 hit film.

What it is: The US Army released its review Thursday of last year's collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National, which killed 67 people. Families of the victims had pressed for months to see the report, completed in May, and shared a copy with the AP hours before its release.

The detail: The report's author, a lieutenant general, called two broken radio transmissions "the most salient contributing factor," since they helped keep the crew from identifying the landing jet. The pilots wore night-vision goggles that narrowed their view, and the route allowed just 75 feet of vertical separation from planes landing on Reagan's secondary runway.

Why it matters: The Army inspected and reconfigured all 3,585 affected helicopters after finding the Black Hawk's location-broadcasting system inoperable, and is reviewing helicopter flights near other major cities. That review covers Los Angeles and the Seattle-Tacoma region, so the fallout from one crash over the Potomac now reaches military helicopter routes far beyond Washington.

What to watch: Families of Flight 5342 want Congress to require collision avoidance technology on aircraft, while lawmakers still negotiate a compromise between separate House and Senate aviation safety bills.

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DonnaJean Wilde, a 61-year-old grandmother, held a plank for five hours at Utah's Huntsman World Senior Games, breaking the Guinness World Record she set in 2024.

Alabama sewer workers clearing a clog found a Class of 1965 ring that Oscar James Meredith, now 79, had given his high school sweetheart, who lost it before they married.

Firefighters in Spring Hill, Kansas, borrowed a catch pole from local police to retrieve Tasslehoff, a pet iguana that climbed a tall tree after roughly a week on the loose.

The Peshtigo Fire becomes the deadliest wildfire in US history (1871) · Montenegro declares war on the Ottoman Empire, opening the First Balkan War (1912) · Sgt. Alvin York's Argonne Forest heroics later earn him the Medal of Honor (1918) · Tom Ridge is sworn in as the first White House director of homeland security (2001)

"A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do." — Alvin York, Medal of Honor recipient

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