Giles Snyder

The deal, announced by the Commerce Department, involves $250 billion in new investments in the U.S.

by Taiwan's semiconductor and tech companies in exchange for easing tariffs on Taiwan exports to the U.S.

The deal, the latest for the Trump administration, following agreements with the European Union and Japan.

College enrollment in the U.S.

has reached a 10-year high.

NPR's Alyssa Nadwani reports that more than 19 million Americans are going to college.

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week.

Labor Department says new applications for jobless aid fell by 9,000 the week ending January 10th.

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to tamp down on the ongoing protests in Minneapolis.

He will be the first president to use the act in more than 30 years, as NPR's Alana Wise reports.

The U.S.

has seized another oil tanker in the Caribbean.

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports the Trump administration says it will control all oil exports from Venezuela.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado was at the White House Thursday.

She presented President Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.

In a social media post, President Trump said it was a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.

Trump openly campaigned for the Peace Prize before it was awarded to Machado.

The FBI's search of a Washington Post reporter's home has set off alarm bells among press advocates.

NPR's David Focomplik says the search was highly unusual, but part of a pattern with the Trump administration.