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Dale Willman
Live from NPR News. I'm Dale Willman. Venezuela is responding after President Trump said Saturday pilots should consider the airspace over and near that country closed. As Julia Cornero reports, the South American country is calling it a colonialist threat against their sovereignty.
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Julia Cornero
On social media, President Trump said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela was to be considered closed in its entirety. Venezuela's Foreign Ministry called Trump's comments, quote, another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people and said that it was unilaterally suspending all flights deporting Venezuelan migrants. The Federal Aviation Administration had recently warned airlines of potentially hazardous situation when flying over the country, leading companies to suspend flights and Venezuela to revoke operating rights for six major airlines as the US Increases military pressure on the country. President Trump said Thursday that it could begin targeting alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land very soon. For NPR News, I'm Julia Janeiro.
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Dale Willman
The White House has not responded to questions about just what Trump meant by that post. Northwestern University has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to the federal federal government. It's an agreement that restores hundreds of millions in research funding withheld by the Trump administration. The initial loss of that money contributed to the resignation of the school's president in September. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny has more.
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Alyssa Nadworny
Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years. In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discri. The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school. This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University and Columbia University. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
The work of the group Human Rights Watch is no longer welcome in Russia. Russia's government has blacklisted the organization as part of a wider crackdown on civil Society. From Moscow, NPR's Charles Maintes has our reports.
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Charles Maynes
The ban stems from a Russian Justice Ministry order designating Human Rights Watch a so called undesirable organization. The undesirable label means criminal penalties up to four years in prison for anyone affiliated with Human Rights Watch. The group's leadership could face even stiffer sentences. HRW denounced the ruling as symptomatic of growing repressions in Russia. The group now joins a number of international organizations whose work became untenable amid Russia's war in Ukraine. Authorities have also tarred Russian into independent media, NGOs and opposition groups as extremists and foreign agents, forcing many to close or move into exile. Charles Maynes, NPR News, Moscow.
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Dale Willman
And you're listening to NPR News. Dorothy Vogel, who with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art on their civil servants salaries, has died. She was 90 years old. NPR's Bob Mondello offers this appreciation.
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Bob Mondello
She was a librarian, he was a postal clerk. And in 1960s art studios they spent Penn for works by such not yet famous artists as Jeff Koon, Sol Lewitt and Christo. As Dorothy told a documentarian in 2008.
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Dorothy Vogel
In those days, if you wanted to collect art, pop art was already too expensive and so was abstract expressionists. So if you wanted to buy art, the only thing that we could afford would be the minimal.
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Bob Mondello
They endeared themselves by coming cash in hand and only taking home what they could carry in a taxi, filling their tiny rent controlled apartment with one of the world's most important collections of conceptual art. The Vogels donated it all to DC's new National Gallery of Art and a 50 Works for 50 States project that shared it with museums around the country. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
A major storm system is moving through the Midwest and Great Lakes this weekend. Forecasters say snow could fall as much as one inch an hour in some places and will slow vehicle traffic and cause delays at some airports. By Saturday morning, Northern Iowa had 8 inches of snow in college football. Number one, Ohio State owned Michigan today, beating the Wolverines 27 9. Michigan was held to just 100 rushing yards and 63 yards through the air. The Buckeyes now move on to the Big Ten championship against Indiana next weekend. Number five, Oregon, meanwhile, beat Washington 26 to 14. Number seven, Texas Tech, blanked West Virginia 49 zip. Number eight, Oklahoma, beat LSU 1713 and Barry beat LaGrange 18 to 14. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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