NPR News: 01-07-2026 5AM EST
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What is the opening news focus of NPR’s early‑morning broadcast?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. President Trump is urging the major oil companies to make large investments in Venezuela following the ouster of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, by the US military. НПРСКМИЛЯ Домановский сейчас більзя толпроція.
Гетинг Венезула'с ой, із нас. Кевен бук звук Клер Вью Енердж Партнерс.
How is President Trump proposing oil investments in post‑Maduro Venezuela?
І цнача геологіч проблем у нежинери проблем, а мат проблем.
Would companies make back the money they put in? Is the country stable enough to invest? And thanks to an oversupply of oil, global crude prices are comparatively low right now. So these investments might not be profitable at all without subsidies. On the other hand, there is a lot of oil in Venezuela, making it a good opportunity for future growth. And the kind of crude that is abundant there, heavy crude, would be welcomed by the US refineries that have specialized equipment. Perfect for handling it. Camila Dominowski, NPR News.
On Monday, Maduro and his wife Celia Flores pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges in New York.
Why did Nicolás Maduro and his wife plead not guilty to U.S. drug charges?
Their next court appearance is scheduled for march seventeenth. In a post on social media, President Trump says Venezuelan authorities will be turning over thirty to fifty million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US, which will then be sold at market price. Trump says he'll control the proceeds from the oil sales to ensure they benefit the people of Venezuela and the US. Trump says the arrangement has been coordinated with what he called Venezuela's interim authorities. A former school police officer in Uvaldi, Texas is on trial in connection with the deadly attack on an elementary school there nearly four years ago. David Martin Davies with Texas Public Radio reports on an unexpected turn in that trial.
Testimony has been halted in the trial of Adrian Gonzalez, the police officer accused of not taking action to stop, delay, or distract the mass shooter who killed nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in 2022. Stephanie Hale, who was a teacher at Robb, testified that she saw the gunman on the south side of the school, the same area where Gonzalez was. This testimony had not surfaced in earlier interests. Interviews, prompting an immediate objection from defense attorneys who claimed this was a violation of prosecution's disclosure requirement. Judge Sid Harl will hear motion arguments which could lead to a mistrial. Victims' families are upset that this could hurt the case against Gonzalez.
I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio.
Wall Street is coming off record high closes for the Dow in the S P five hundred. The Dow added four hundred eighty four points yesterday to finish above the forty nine thousand mark for the first time.
What are the latest movements in the U.S. stock market and Dow record highs?
That's a gain of nearly one percent. The S P added forty two points to close at sixty nine forty four at the Nasdaq was also higher. This is NPR News. Nick Reiner is scheduled to be arraigned today in Los Angeles. He's facing two counts of first degree murder in the slayings of his parents, actor and director Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Singer Reiner. It's been a year since wildfires in Southern California left more than thirty people dead in and around Los Angeles and caused billions of dollars worth of damage. NPR's Liz Baker says LA's new fire chief has announced a new independent investigation into the department's response.
The Palisades fire, which killed twelve people, started after high winds stirred up the remains of another blaze the LA Fire Department believed they had extinguished one week earlier. In fact, it was still smoldering underground.
The outcome has made it incredibly clear that our mop up and verification process needed to be stronger. We have to own that. And I do.
LA Fire Chief Jaime Moore, who was not in charge during the fires, says his department has made changes since, including use of thermal imaging and drones. He also announced a second independent investigation into the LAFD's response to both fires after acknowledging that the first report, which published before his tenure as chief, was heavily edited to shield department leadership from responsibility.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening news focus of NPR’s early‑morning broadcast?
0:01–0:28
2
How is President Trump proposing oil investments in post‑Maduro Venezuela?
0:28–1:08
3
Why did Nicolás Maduro and his wife plead not guilty to U.S. drug charges?
1:08–2:48
4
What are the latest movements in the U.S. stock market and Dow record highs?
2:48–4:17
5
How is Los Angeles responding to the recent wildfires and fire‑chief investigation?
4:17–4:38