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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Venezuelan leaders are rallying around the South American nation's interim president, Delsey Rodriguez. This after ousted leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife were arraigned on drug trafficking and other charges in the United States. NPR's Carrie Conn has more.
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Carrie Kahn
Delsey Rodriguez, Maduro's longtime vice president, was sworn in by her brother, who is the head of Venezuela's National Assembly. She pledged to bring Venezuela out of what she called these terrible times that threatened the peace and stability of the country. Maduro's son, also named Nicolas, gave an emotional pledge of support for the new leader. Is in good hands, Papa, and we will hug each other soon here in Venezuela, he said. The younger Maduro is also a named defendant in the indictment against his father and stepmother. A group of independent journalists say seven reporters were arrested outside the National Assembly. Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Bogota, Colombia.
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Shea Stevens
Trump administration officials say the United States will run Venezuela until that nation completes an orderly transition of power. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says the US Is setting the terms and conditions going forward and that the Venezuelan government is cooperating.
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Stephen Miller
The president of the United States has asked Secretary Rubio, who also happens to be his national security adviser, to directly, of course, under the president's close guidance and direction, to be the lead on this process. But obviously there's many other elements involved. You have energy policy, treasury policy, financial policy, military policy. So it's a big team and group of people. Everybody's working great and closely together again under President Trump's leadership.
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Shea Stevens
Miller says the US Is in de facto control of Venezuela, citing the naval blockade around that South American nation. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says its board has voted to shut down the organization this follow months after Congress took away federal subsidies for public broadcasting. As NPR's David Folkenflick reports, CPB had distributed federal funds to public TV radio stations as well as PBS and NPR for over half a century.
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Patricia Harrison
The board voted on December 10th. It was disclosed in court filings in CPB's lawsuit against President Trump over his executive order seeking to fire several CPB board members. CPB says its lawsuit is now irrelevant. CEO Patricia Harrison said CPB dissolved, quote, to protect the integrity of the public media system. Otherwise it would be, Harrison said, quote vulnerable to additional attacks. In another executive order, Trump sought to bar CPB from subsidizing NPR and pbs, which he accused of bias. The networks deny that in a separate suit against the White House. NPR and three Colorado Public Radio stations allege the order is unconstitutional. That case remains in court.
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Shea Stevens
This is NPR. The Secret Service says a 26 year old man has been detained on suspicion of breaking into Vice President J.D. vance's home in Cincinnati, Ohio. William DeFore is charged with a felony count of vandalism and three misdemeanors. He's been under the guardianship of a parent since 2024 because of mental illness. Holocaust survivor and storyteller Ev Eva Schloss has died at the age of 96. Schloss was also the stepsister of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. She's being honored by the king of England. As NPR's Lauren Freyr reports from London.
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Lauren Fryer
King Charles says he's privileged and proud to have known Eva Schloss. She was the co founder and honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust uk, a charity named after her stepsister. Schloss was born in 1929 Vienna, then fled the Nazis to Amsterdam, where she became friends with the teenage diarist. Both were from Jewish families, forced into hiding, then arrested and sent to concentration camps. The only members to survive were young Eva, her mother, and Ann's father, who then married after the Holocaust. Eva later married a German Jewish refugee and settled in London, where it was only in her late 50s that she became a Holocaust educator and author. Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.
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Shea Stevens
On Wall street, stocks are sharply higher with the Dow Jones Industrials gaining 594 points. The Nasdaq rose 160 points and the S&P 500 US futures are flat in after hours trading. And on Asia Pacific market, shares are mostly higher, up 1% in Shanghai and in Hong Kong. This is NPR News.
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