Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
In a new post on a social media site, President Trump says oil from a new deal with Venezuela
“will be used to fill the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve.”
But as NPR's Emily Fang reports, significant challenges remain for the 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, as 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 Pyrenees, Washington. And that deal solidifies the U.S. as long-term dominance over Venezuela after the Trump administration
“captured the country's president, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife in January, they're”
awaiting trial in New York. A human rights organization says dozens of migrants have been deported by the U.S. to the Central African Republic. Michael Colokie has more. According to the advocacy group, human rights first, the flight carrying the deportees arrived
in the Central African Republic's capital of Bango yesterday. The deportees include nationals of Afghanistan, Iran, Nepal, and Nicaragua. A lawyer of one of the deported migrants said that his client is an Afghan man, whose brothers collaborated with the U.S. military, adding that his client was granted protection by a U.S. court against deportation to Afghanistan.
The Trump administration has previously approached the number of countries to accept the deportees who are citizens of other nations.
“According to the New York Times, data compiled by refugees international and human rights”
first shows that 23,000 people have been sent to countries they are not originally from. For NPR News, Michael Colokie. Jury deliberations resume and Massachusetts tomorrow, in the trial of Lindsey Clancy, who is charged with the killing of her three children. Deborah Becker from Member Station W.B.U.R. reports that Clancy's lawyers are planning to
are using the insanity defense. Lindsey Clancy's defense says she was experiencing postpartum psychosis. Sand should not be held criminally responsible for killing her children. In Massachusetts, that means that the prosecution has to prove Clancy was mentally well enough to understand or control her actions.
Boston Defense Attorney Keith Helper and says that could work in Clancy's favor. "Mask the truth that's law is actually more favorable to defendants than many states." National data show the insanity defenses argued in only about 1% of felony cases. For NPR News, I'm Deborah Becker in Boston. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
A powerful El Nino climate pattern is now developing and that could affect weather around the world.
A new study finds these events are getting more intense with climate change, as NPR's Lawrence Summer reports. El Nino is a natural climate pattern that occurs every few years. It happens when the water in the tropical Pacific Ocean gets abnormally warm, which can affect weather across the planet.
Some regions get more rain while others get drier. The El Nino developing now could be a record breaker. Researchers at the University of Michigan and others looks at whether these kinds of El Nino's are getting more common. They used fossils of coral reefs to put together a historical record of El Nino's over the past
thousand years. They found since the Industrial Revolution El Nino's are now 36% stronger, which could mean even greater impacts, more in summer and PR news. At the weekend box office, Spider-Man, brand new day, took the top spot with $22 million in its fifth weekend. And that brings its worldwide total to $2.3 billion. In second place, three years after Warner Bros. canceled the release of Looney Tunes feature coyote versus
Acme, Indie Distributor, Catch a Mentor Tament, gave it a new life and it paid off, debuting with an estimated $15 million in ticket sales.
In third place, the Odyssey with $14 million and rounding out the top five,
the dog stars about a pilot and a German shepherd who survived a global pandemic with $8 million and a buddy with $5 million on Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
