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This week on Up first, the Trump administration and Venezuela. Can the U.S. run a foreign government? As the president says, they simply may not adopt the policies that Trump would like to see. It's a complex, fast moving story as always. We're working overnight and every night so you can start each morning knowing what matters. Listen up first on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Fresh protests are underway this morning in Minneapolis. This comes a day after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in her car. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the ICE agent, saying the driver, Renee Nicole Goode, struck him with her car. NPR has reviewed multiple videos of the scene. The officer does not appear to be hit and can be seen walking after he fired the deadly shots. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison says Noem should not have drawn that conclusion.
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Yet the Homeland Security secretary has already said we did nothing wrong, even though there's been no investigation, which is really disturbing. You would think that the Homeland Security secretary would be the first to say, let's suspend judgment and look into it. That's not what we saw. We saw the Homeland security secretary defang Ms. Good by calling her a domestic terrorist. She was anything but that.
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She spoke to NPR's Morning Edition. The Trump administration has pulled out of 66 international organizations, calling them wasteful and too focused on progressive ideology. The list includes many UN agencies. NPR's Michelle Keleman reports from Tel Aviv.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's taking aim at what he calls a sprawling architecture of global governance. He blasted programs aimed at gender equity and what he calls climate orthodoxy. And Rubio said this latest move expands on his decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. He's pulling funds from UN offices that focus on sexual violence and violence against children and withdrawing the US from the UN Peacebuilding fund that promotes peace around the world and here in this region supports Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups. The US is not among the top 12 donors to that organization. Michelle Keleman, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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Stocks opened mixed this morning as the Commerce Department reported a sharp drop in the US Trade deficit. NPR Scott Horsley reports. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 55 points in early trading.
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The US trade gap narrowed in October to a little over $29 billion. That's down 39% from the previous month. Exports rose in October while imports fell. US Workers got more productive in the late summer and early fall. The Labor Department says productivity rose by nearly 5% during the that's important because when workers are more productive, they can earn higher wages without putting upward pressure on prices. Wage growth has slowed in recent months, however, as the job market has softened. New applications for unemployment benefits inched up last week. We'll get a full report on December unemployment tomorrow. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Senate is preparing to consider a war powers resolution. This would seek to limit President Trump's ability to carry out further military attacks in Venezuela without congressional authorization. Some Democratic lawmakers are also putting together a similar resolution that would try to block Trump from acting against Greenland. The antiparasitic drug Ivermectin has been scientifically discredited as a treatment for Covid, and it doesn't hold much promise for cancer. But NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports. Over the past year, renewed interest in Ivermectin has doctors increasingly worried.
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New Orleans oncologist Jonathan Mizrahi sees some cancer patients spurn normal chemotherapies in favor of Ivermectin, despite there being no evidence it works. Mizrahi, like many doctors, worry conservative political social media especially, is amplifying this disinformation.
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The nature of politics today, where it really does permeate so many dimensions of people's lives, makes its way into the exam room. It does. I mean, there's no doubt about that.
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So far, five Republican led state legislatures have made Ivermectin available over the counter. Florida is also funding cancer research using Ivermectin. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News.
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In Los Angeles yesterday, Nick Reiner was not formally charged with killing his parents, Hollywood director Rob Reiner, and his wife, Michelle. Nick Reiner never entered a plea. That's because his lawyer has withdrawn from the case but did not explain why. Nick Reiner will now be represented by a public defender. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News from Washington.
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