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New charges will be filed on Thursday in the US criminal case against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Manhattan US Attorney's Office said on Thursday. Details of the new charges were not immediately available.
A US official told Reuters on Wednesday that Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were expected to face new charges over the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuela.
After 130 days of relative calm, the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season birthed its first hurricane, and it’s headed for the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaias officially evolved from a tropical storm late Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center, setting a new record for the quietest start to a hurricane season since the satellite era began 60 years ago.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for centuries. Rubio is in Athens on Wednesday to discuss deepening economic, energy, and security cooperation with Greece and deliver a speech overlooking the ruins of the Acropolis.
Israeli politicians, family members of victims, and residents of southern Israel on Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. Mourners gathered at a memorial on the site of the Nova music festival in Reim, where partygoers were killed and kidnapped.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Russia should share more information about the death of a plague laboratory worker who died last week, an incident that he said Washington is watching "very closely.”
"I think it's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world," Rubio told reporters in Iceland. "We're watching it very closely, hour by hour."
Paramount Skydance on Tuesday completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a Hollywood heavyweight called Skydance and handing CEO David Ellison control of one of the world's largest entertainment companies.
The deal brings together the studios behind "Mission: Impossible," "Harry Potter" and DC Studios alongside major television and streaming networks such as CBS, CNN, Paramount+ and HBO Max—forming an entertainment company spanning film, TV and news.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 5 regarding a lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, demanding compensation from energy companies for local weather damage allegedly caused by global greenhouse gas emissions.
The question before the court, however, is not whether global warming theories hold water. It’s whether local courts throughout the United States should have the authority to extract billions of dollars from energy companies for damage allegedly caused by global emissions.
The energy companies argue that giving such power to local courts would allow municipalities to effectively impose a massive nationwide carbon tax with the potential to bankrupt the U.S. energy industry.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Californian woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4 on suspicion of acting as an unregistered agent for Beijing and surveilling a close relative of a Taiwanese government official, officials said.
“Heather” Zhang Wanying, 34, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, was taken into custody by FBI Los Angeles when she attempted to leave the United States for China, according to first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bilal Essayli.

President Donald Trump visited the southeastern Oklahoma City of Durant on Thursday, spurring Republican voters to turn out and vote in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Hundreds spent the drizzly, dreary day in the rain, clad in red ball caps, American flag shirts, and cowboy hats, waiting to hear from the president.
“Thirty-three days from now the people of Oklahoma are going to defeat the radical left again,” Trump told the cheering crowd.
Hiring momentum slowed in September following the previous month’s blockbuster jobs report, U.S. government data show. The economy added 29,000 new jobs last month, from the downwardly revised 133,000 in August, according to a report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.