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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 Live from.
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NPR News In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump met with more than a dozen oil executives at the White House this afternoon to talk about the future of oil production in Venezuela. If the company struck a deal, he said, they'd be in Venezuela for a long time. NPR's Camilla Dominoski reports.
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President Trump made it clear what he wanted.
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Our giant oil companies will be spending at least $100 billion of their money, not the government's money. They don't need government money, but they need government protection.
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And if any companies didn't want to invest, he said other companies would be willing to take their place. But the gathered executives didn't promise any dollar figures. Darren woods, the CEO of ExxonMobil, said that after having had assets seized twice in Venezuela, it would take some significant changes before they went back in. As it is today, he called Venezuela uninvestable. Camila Domonosky, NPR News.
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Minnesota officials are asking the public to share any video or other evidence about the fatal shooting of Renee Goode by an immigration agent. They say they're concerned by the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation into the kill. Federal hands During a press conference, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry says federal officials have already made their own conclusions about the case.
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This is not a time to hide from the facts. This is a time to embrace them, making sure that we're pushing for transparency every step of the way. The fact that Pam Bondi's Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning.
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The Trump administration insists that the officer who shot the 37 year old mother of three has complete legal immunity. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says his agency is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesota residents and businesses and Somalia. Somali leaders and local officials have vowed to protect the community. The latest on employment numbers from the Labor Department show hiring in the U.S. slowed last month. NPR's Scott Horsley says employers added 50,000 jobs during the month.
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Healthcare and hospitality were among the few industries to add workers in December. Factories, construction companies and business services all cut back on employment. Even retailers cut 25,000 jobs in December as stores relied on fewer workers during the busy holiday shopping season. Employment gains for all of last year were the smallest since 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic put millions of people out of work. For all of last year, employers added less than 600,000 jobs compared to 2 million new jobs the year before. The unemployment rate fell last month to 4.4%. That's partly because tens of thousands of people dropped out of the workforce. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the US job market today. The S&P 500 climbed six tenths of a percent, topping its all time high. This is npr. Lyft and Uber drivers are protesting Waymo's self driving taxis in San Francisco. They urged state regulators to increase oversight of autonomous vehicles after incidents in which cars killed pets and blocked traffic. The California Gig workers union wants the vehicles removed until safety issues are addressed. Google's parent company Alphabet, owns Waymo. Scientists are struggling to understand the relationship between climate change and remote parts of the ocean. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports. A new study suggests sailboats could help.
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The ocean absorbs some carbon dioxide, one of the planet warming gases that causes climate change. But figuring out exactly how much carbon dioxide the oceans can absorb is very complex. One reason it's so challenging is that there's not a lot of data collected in the Southern Ocean. But sailboats that are competing in round the world races do collect measurements of ocean temperature in that region. Scientists in Germany and Belgium found the sailboat data can improve computer models about ocean CO2 absorption. The study was published in the journal Science Advances and recommends even more data collection from sailboats in the future. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.
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A federal judge has dismissed pioneering hip hop duo Salt and Pepa's lawsuit to reclaim ownership of their master recordings from Universal Music Group. The court sided with the record label, saying the group never owned the copyrights to their sound recording. UMG argued the recordings were, quote, works made for hire, preventing rights reclamation. I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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