Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Kivoni.
In a Sunday post on his social media side, truth, social, president Trump says oil from
“a new deal with Venezuela to develop oil there will be used to fill the U.S. strategic”
petroleum reserve, but as NPR's Emily Fang reports, significant challenges remain for that project. The deal announced Friday with Venezuela would allow the U.S. government to take a stake
in a private company that would then develop a project producing about 65 billion barrels
of oil, but much of the oil in Venezuela remains in the ground and it will take years to develop the infrastructure to pump and refine that oil. Because of decades of under-investment and poor management, Venezuela is not a major oil producer, despite sitting on massive energy resources. And American energy companies have been reluctant to invest.
The deal has announced also runs contrary to Venezuela's constitution, which bars the country's oil from being owned by other countries, or sold. Emily Fang and pure news, Washington. Just hours after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's newest space telescope reports all systems are nominal on its journey to a new home a million miles
from Earth.
“Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Burn has more.”
The Roman Space Telescope hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launching the 18,000-pound telescope that's about the size of a tour bus. As Jackie Townsend said, it went exactly as planned. What a glorious dawn launch. And the ride was magnificent.
Just hours after lift off, the spacecraft began opening its solar panels and other instruments and is performing as expected. It will take Roman about three months to get to its final destination in space, with the
first observations coming before the end of the year.
The observatory is on the hunt for dark matter and dark energy, which could change our understanding of how the universe works. It's also expected to identify over 100,000 planets orbiting other stars. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Burn in Orlando. The state of the nation's labor market will be front and center for investors on Wall Street
this week after the U.S. unexpectedly lost over 20,000 jobs in July. The data will emerge against the backdrop of heightened federal reserve concerns about inflation and PR's Raphael Nama reports. For most of the year, the labor market has been fairly sturdy, but it has been noticeably cooling down over the past two months, especially in July when employers cut jobs.
Federal reserve chair Kevin Worsh didn't appear too concerned about the slower pace of growth in the labor market. At least for now, saying in a major speech on Friday that on the employment side the country is "doing well". The U.S. will get another read on the labor market this coming Friday, with the latest
numbers for August. Investors will be parsing the data to see if this is just a natural cooling or whether it should be a bigger cause of concern. Raphael Nama, NPR News. This is NPR.
Iceland's voters this weekend rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union and a national debate over geopolitical security and local prosperity. The people's decision maintains national control over the country's prized fisheries. Local media say the vote not to restart talks one by a margin of 52 to 47%. At least aid people are dead, 23 reportedly missing.
After a ferry capsized off the coast of Cyprus, it was carrying almost 270 people and was on route to Turkey, and Piers Hadil Al-Shashay has more. The ferry had left the Cypriot port of Carania, also known as Guernet in Turkish, and was on its way to Tashaja in southern Turkey. Turkish officials said that a large search and rescue mission by Turkish and northern
Cypriot forces was underway. It included naval units and helicopters. The prime minister of the Turkish Cypriot controlled northern part of the island told Turkish state media that the ferry was delayed due to bad weather and began taking on water 15 minutes after departure.
After violence broke out between ethnic Greek and Turkish populations in northern Cyprus, which was controlled by the Turkish military in the 70s. For the northern Cyprus declared itself an independent Turkish Republic in 1983. Hadil Al-Shashay and PR News Istanbul. 12-year-old Carson Meyer made little league world series history once again, becoming the
first girl to play and get a hit in the U.S. championship game yesterday.
Today her team plays in the world series title game in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, another first for girls.
“I'm Louise Skivone, NPR News, Washington Country singer and rapper Shibuzi wants us to remember”
our history accurately. Cowboy image, you know, we tend to think that was just a white man, you know, on a horse with a Cowboy hat, but you know, one in every four Cowboys were black. On the Sunday story from up first, Shibuzi talks about his latest album and the black roots of country music.
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