Janine Hurst

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Amid growing threats from the Trump administration, Venezuela's authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro, says he wants to improve relations with Washington.

Maduro called Venezuela a U.S.

ally and offered to cooperate on fighting drugs and producing oil.

John Otis has more.

Americans may get to enjoy Italian pasta in the U.S.

after all.

The Trump administration has relented after threatening to slap tariffs on Italian pasta brands.

And Fierce Ruth Sherlock has more.

South Carolina's Department of Public Health reports nine more confirmed measles cases in its first outbreak update of the year.

It's affecting kids at a greater ratio than in other states with outbreaks.

South Carolina Public Radio's Luis Alfredo Garcia has more.

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Physical adaptations for walking upright on two feet may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.

That's according to a new analysis of some old bones.

And Pierce Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports walking upright was an important shift for early human ancestors.

In Telluride, Colorado, there appears to be no end in sight for a ski patroller strike that's been going on now for about a week after contract negotiations broke down.

And that means ski resorts are closed in the town.

Ski patrollers want an increase in pay in an area where the cost of living is extremely high.

The resort says the ski patrol members are asking for too much money.