"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Eight months after a former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro was ousted in a U.S. military
“raid, the Trump administration is about to secure expanded control of the Latin American”
country's oil reserves. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is in Caracas, to oversee an oil deal between Washington and Venezuela in private company. As in Piers Franco, Ordonia's reports, Trump's claiming the new deal will help bring down gas prices that have been elevated as a result of oil supply disruptions in the U.S. war
with Iran. John McHenry, a veteran Republican pollster, says Trump has an incentive to take action even if his policies won't necessarily produce results over the next few months ahead of the midterms.
The first challenge is to show that you know people are concerned about it and that you
care about it as well and that you're doing something about it. Part of the problem for Trump is that before the U.S. launch strikes against Iran, on average prices were a dollar a gallon lower nationally in February.
“That's a reality that Trump just can't avoid Franco or Donia's NPR news.”
The Trump administration is requiring states to report any time they conclude someone's in the country illegally. And Piers Jasmine Garce reports the policy marks a reversal of a 1998 legal opinion. In 1996 Congress enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. It requires that federal and state agencies administering welfare report and authorized
immigrants getting benefits to homeland security. In an opinion published this week, the Trump administration's Office of Legal Council
broadened this requirement saying that all state agencies should be reporting people without
legal status to the federal government. It's like Illinois, California, and New York have laws designed to protect personal data from being shared with federal immigration authorities, meaning the new policy is likely to be challenged. Jasmine Garce and Pierre News, New York.
“The United Nations is warning the world is very close to crossing a dangerous climate change”
threshold. And Piers Lawrence Summer has more on the findings of a new report from the UN. Piers agreed in 2015 to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Beyond that, the risks of a hotter planet get much worse.
Storms get more intense, sea levels keep rising, and their major impacts to crops.
A new report from the United Nations Environment Program finds that countries have failed to meet that agreement. To limit the damage, emissions from burning fossil fuels need to drop to zero. And carbon emissions may even need to be sucked out of the atmosphere. Either way, the report warns that countries will need to prepare for worsening disasters
due to climate change, more in summer, and PR news. While street higher by the closing bell, the Dow up 295 points, you're listening to NPR news from Washington. A new Gallup poll shows nearly 9 in 10 Americans, say corruption in the U.S. government is widespread. That's a record high.
The poll shows 89% of adults feel that way, that's a 10% from last year. Democrats' perception of government corruption rose the most sharply since 2024 compared to other groups. In President Biden's final year in office, 57% said corruption was widespread, rising to 91% this year.
For Republicans, the poll found 83% of respondents think there's corruption in government. That's down slightly from Biden's last year in office. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, children are returning to school, despite the rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak that has more than 6,000 confirmed cases, and at Livingstone has more.
More than 3,000 people have died of the disease since an epidemic was declared in Congo in May, and it continues to spread rapidly. The government resisted calls to shut down the schools because of Ebola and has put in place new measures to try to keep children in the classroom. All schools must have basic sanitary facilities such as hand-washing stations, for example,
and where the outbreak is severe, children will follow lessons at home via the radio or TV. The decision is dividing teachers. Some of them say they can't guarantee their students' safety, but for most whether teacher, parent, or student, there's little choice but to try to carry on.
For NPR News, I'm Emmett Livingstone. And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. So can Medicare for All-Be a Solution? We take a hard look at the cost of the program along with U.S. health care itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from Planet Money on the NPR App.
