"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Oil giant Chevron says it's expanding its operations in Venezuela.
“This day is after President Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation's”
oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron says it's been a signed additional acreage in the Eranico belt where the company has an established position.
And venture plans include investing more than $7 billion over five years and more than
doubling production to around 600,000 barrels a day. The Trump administration has intervened to aid open AI in a landmark legal battle over the use of the New York Times content to train its large language machines. And if you're a David Folkanflik reports, the Justice Department says it's necessary to protect U.S. global leadership in AI.
The New York Times struck a deal last year with Amazon, allowing that digital titan to feed Times content into its AI systems. But the Times has led vast copyright infringement by OpenAI, which has no such deal.
“OpenAI has said, quote, "It would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without”
using copyrighted materials." But the company argues it transforms the content legally. As far from the first litigation involving the Times, Trump and the administration, the president
privately filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the Times over its coverage, for its part
that Times is suing the Pentagon over restrictions on reporting. David Folkanflik and PR News The COVID-19 flu and RSV vaccines continue to be very safe and effective, that's according to new independent analysis. And based on the results, several major medical groups are issuing new guidelines, urging
Americans to continue getting the shots, as MPR's Rob Stein reports. The analyses were conducted by the University of Minnesota's Vaccine Integrity Project, which was created to counter questions raised by the Trump administration about the shots,
“and the federal government's failure to issue updated guidelines for the COVID, flu, and”
RSV vaccines. Based on the results, groups representing family doctors, pediatricians, obstetricians, and other specialists recommend the shots for more people than the federal government, including healthy adults, young children, and pregnant people. Rob, Stein, and PR News
A judge in Massachusetts has sent the jury home telling them to come back tomorrow for a sixth day of deliberation after they told him they're deadlocked, and they can't reach a unanimous decision on whether to convict Lindsay Clancy of murdering her three children in 2023.
It's a second time they've told Judge William Sullivan they couldn't come to a verdict.
Her lawyer says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, if the jury can't come to a decision, Sullivan could declare a mistrial. You're listening to NPR News. Israel disciplined a troop commander for Ms. Conduct in the Occupied West Bank, and announced charges in the beating death of a Palestinian held in an Israeli prison.
This amid a rise in international condemnation for what activists say is a spike in human rights against Palestinians, and Pierce Karycon has more. Israeli officials charged 12 prison guards in the death of a Palestinian man who died after being kicked, punch, and struck with clubs back in 2023, prosecutors say the beating caused his death a rare admission of mistreatment.
In another infrequent move, a troop commander in the West Bank was dismissed for leading soldiers and prayers with a group of Israeli settlers in Kusra. The settlers continued to besiege Palestinian homes in the West Bank town. Ms. Conduct allegations by Israeli troops and prison officials have skyrocketed since the war in Gaza.
Israel's far-right minister of national security, it Demir Ben Gavier, has publicly touted the tougher treatment, including withholding food from Palestinian prisoners. Karycon and PR News Tel Aviv. The US men is selling a $1 gold-colored commemorative coin to celebrate America's 250th birthday featuring President Trump's face on one side.
The coin is actually money. Its design includes Trump's face as the head, and then the great seal of the United States as tails. A role of 25 coins caused $61, a bag of $100, costs $154.50. On Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
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