Coming as the u.s. Seeks to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to cede power to the opposition Here s treasury secretary Steven minutiae today Treasury took action against Venezuela s state owned oil company advice to help prevent their further diversion event as well as assets by former president of the United States is holding accountable those responsible for Venezuela s tragic decline munition says he does not expect u.s. Consumers to see higher prices at the pump as a result of the action against Venezuela which will cost that country billions of dollars refused to relinquish power and recognize a new president won quite 0 with the administration is recognized as the country s legitimate leader 5 Houston police officers have been shot in an altercation with a suspect while serving a warrant at least one suspect has reportedly died more from N.P.R. s Wade Goodwyn the shooting happened about 5 pm local time as officers from that are caught ix the vision were serving a warrant
California utility has stopped making settlement payments to plaintiffs from a deadly wildfire that hit northern California 4 years ago member station k.q.e.d. Lily Jamali reports the move comes as p.g. And e. Prepares to file for bankruptcy protection lawyers representing survivors of 20 fifteen s Butte fire say p.g. And e. Missed one and a half $1000000.00 in payments due last week investigators alternately blamed it on the utility attorney Amanda Riddell represents some of those victims and says millions more in payments come due in the coming weeks between a move incredibly hypocritical and it really is the personification of adding insult to injury Representatives for p.g. Any have said it plans to file for bankruptcy protection as early as Tuesday they say that decision stems from mounting wildfire liabilities Meanwhile the utility is currently under investigation for a possible role in the camp fire that 28000 blaze was the deadliest in state history for n.p.r. News I m Lily Ja
Was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell see in 915 but Shackleton and his crew escaped Jonathan a most reports fortune has smiled on the international Weddell Sea expedition the sea ice opened at just the right time to allow them to reach Antarctica s biggest iceberg known as a 68 and to study its surroundings for more than 2 weeks but with all task completed the teams icebreaker is now attempting to get to the location where Shackleton s insurance went down in 3000 meters of water if they can get close enough the scientists will deploy a robotic submersibles to search the seabed and if they can find in durance to photograph its condition Black Panther on the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the film depicting a futuristic African society picked up here war for outstanding performance by a cost Best Actress went to Glenn Close for the wife Rani Malik was named Best Actor in a leading role for his performance as the late Queen front and Freddie Mercury in B
4 and a half years in prison for subverting state power N.P.R. s Rob Schmitz has more than one trend young defended political activists victims of land seizures and members of the banned religious group following go off from his office in Beijing then in July of 2015 Wong was among the 250 or so lawyers and activists detained in a widespread crackdown on rights lawyers Long s case stands out for the length of time he s been kept incommunicado 3 now for years probably the u.n. Rights group to call in Beijing to release him N.P.R. s Rob Schmitz The opposition leader in Venezuela has declared himself interim president he s calling for new marches this week one wants demonstrators to demand that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro set new elections the u.s. Has recognized as Venezuela s legitimate leader you re listening to n.p.r. . Rescue teams in Southeastern Brazil are carefully walking through mud looking for any survivors from a dam collapse at a mine Friday afternoon at least 58 peo
The 1st one was inside the church they say the 2nd one outside as people were fleeing and rescuers were coming to help those victims of the 1st bomb attack the American secretary of state Mike Pompei o has welcomed what he called encouraging news from talks between a u.s. Envoy and the Afghan Taliban both sides say progress has been made with more details here s our correspondent in Islamabad succumb to come out there war in Afghanistan has been going on for 17 years now but it certainly does seem there s a gathering momentum to the preliminary peace negotiations principally that progress has occurred in 2 key areas one when American troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan which has been a key Taliban demand and in return getting a commitment from the Taliban that they won t allow Afghanistan to be turned into a kind of international base for Jihad these groups like al Qaeda but both the u.s. And the Taliban acknowledge that there are outstanding issues crucially we haven t seen any