Shumita (Shamita) Basu
speaker
365 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Jan
Shumita (Shamita) Basu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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U.S.
forces were supported by the British, who described the ship as being part of a Russian-Iranian axis of sanctions evasion.
The Russians, meanwhile, demanded humane treatment of its citizens aboard the vessel.
U.S.
troops also seized a second tanker carrying Venezuelan oil near the Caribbean Sea.
This comes on the heels of a major announcement from President Trump that Venezuela would soon hand over millions of barrels of oil.
Yesterday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright went even further, saying that the United States would oversee the sale of the country's production indefinitely.
And tomorrow, President Trump is expected to meet with executives from major American oil companies to discuss the future of production in Venezuela.
But one major obstacle to doing all of this may, in fact, be Venezuela's oil industry itself.
Kevin Crowley is a senior oil reporter with Bloomberg.
He said that these oil executives could ask for a number of promises in exchange for making the kind of investments the White House is seeking.
American and European oil companies at one point had significant operations in Venezuela.
Now many of these companies say that Venezuela owes them tens of billions of dollars for driving them out under Hugo Chavez's leadership decades ago.
Chevron is the only American oil company that stayed in Venezuela.
Crowley explained, though, that while there are short-term hurdles, the prospect of being able to access Venezuela's oil in the long term could prove to be an attractive offer.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has unveiled his much-anticipated overhaul to the federal food guidelines.
Since the 1940s, food guidelines have been presented variously as plates, wheels and pyramids.
This time, it's been turned on its head, literally, as an inverted pyramid with meat, cheese and vegetables at the top.
Sarah Todd is a reporter for the health publication Stat News.
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