The Thinking Conservative

The United States is engaged in productive discussions with Tehran, the U.S. president said. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States will not launch new strikes against Iran before the November elections, due to ongoing discussions between his administration and the Islamic regime. Fighting between the United States and Iran has mostly stalled in recent weeks, with the U.S. military launching its most recent strikes against the country in early September.

Maduro and his wife were captured by the United States in January and charged with narcoterrorism conspiracy and other counts. Prosecutors have added an additional charge of torture against former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Maduro and Cilia Flores were charged in a superseding indictment, unsealed on Oct. 8, with torturing political opponents and Americans. In 2013, Maduro ordered the arrest of a Venezuelan military officer he accused of planning a coup, according to prosecutors.

Clemens won the Cy Young Award seven times as the league’s best pitcher. President Donald Trump said he would award former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom and reiterated a call to induct him into the Baseball Hall of Fame. “He’ll be in the Hall of Fame someday, but he deserves it,” the president said at a rally in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday.

Federal regulators will not complete a safety review of a widely used abortion pill until next year, the government said on Oct. 7. Food and Drug Administration experts are reviewing the safety of mifepristone, the pill, including by conducting a study comparing outcomes in about 100,000 women who took the drug and 100,000 women who underwent surgical abortions, Department of Justice lawyers said in a court filing.

The fuel was being shipped to a Cuban state-owned entity sanctioned by the United States. The United States seized 90 biodiesel shipments worth more than $2.8 million that were part of an attempt to illegally export fuel to Cuba. Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identified biodiesel shipments being exported from the country, specifically from Port Everglades in Florida and the Port of Houston in Texas, to ENETEC S.A., a Cuban wholesaler engaged in trading fuel.

The first worker died of pneumonia of unknown cause, Russian authorities have said. Russian officials on Oct. 7 responded after reports of the death of a second worker from a facility in Siberia that studies the plague. “There is a great deal of media coverage, and the vast majority of what the media are reporting about this situation is false information,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The federal government will also probe nine universities over alleged J-1 visa fraud, the vice president said. WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration will suspend Microsoft from a program that allows its foreign workers to apply for green cards, citing alleged fraud. “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vance said in a press conference on Oct. 8.

Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an American citizen of Somali descent, was arrested and charged by federal officials. The FBI arrested an 18-year-old man for allegedly planning an attack in support of the ISIS terrorist group at the Mall of America in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Dan Rosen announced on Wednesday.

‘This money is your child’s future,’ President Donald Trump said at an event. President Donald Trump lauded the Treasury Department’s automatic enrollment for Trump Accounts at an Oval Office event on Oct. 7. Trump highlighted that approximately 70 million U.S. children have now been enrolled in these tax-advantaged investment accounts. “If all goes well, which I think it will, they’ll end up being quite rich by the time they’re 18, and then 21, and as time goes by,” Trump told reporters.

The federal government will table legislation to indefinitely exclude people whose sole medical condition is a mental illness from receiving medical assistance in dying (MAID), Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced on Oct. 7. Fraser said the decision reflected the recommendations of a special parliamentary committee on MAID, which recommended that people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness remain excluded from eligibility.