Minnesota ICE Shooting, Venezuela Oil Tanker Pursuit, RFK Jr's New Dietary Guidelines
Up First from NPR
NPR
4.5 • 52.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
U.S. forces boarded a tanker carrying sanctioned oil after a two-week chase across the Atlantic, as the Trump administration expands plans to take control of Venezuela’s oil sales indefinitely.
And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new dietary guidelines flip decades of advice, elevating meat and dairy and alarming many public health researchers.
Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.
Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Rebekah Metzler, Kelsey Snell, Kate Bartlett, Mohamad ElBardicy, and Alice Woelfle.
It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.
We get engineering support from David Greenburg. Our technical director is Stacey Abbott.
And our deputy Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.
(0:00) Introduction
(01:54) Minnesota ICE Shooting
(05:48) Venezuela Oil Tanker Pursuit
(09:35) RFK Jr's New Dietary Guidelines
Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration says the ICE agent who killed a Minneapolis woman did it in self-defense. |
| 0:07.8 | But the city's mayor says eyewitness accounts and video footage show that's not true. |
| 0:12.1 | This was an agent recklessly using power. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Leila Faudil with Michelle Martin and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:19.9 | U.S. forces boarded an oil tanker that spent LaFald with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:27.1 | U.S. forces boarded an oil tanker that spent two weeks fleeing American ships across the Atlantic. The ship even repainted its name and raised a Russian flag mid-pursuit. |
| 0:31.7 | How far will the conflict over Venezuela's oil industry go? |
| 0:34.9 | And RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines overhaul long-standing nutrition advice, and put |
| 0:40.5 | red meat and dairy at the top of a new food pyramid, are the recommendations backed by science. |
| 0:45.8 | Stay with us, we give new news you need to start your day. |
| 1:00.4 | On NPR's Wildcard podcast, heavyweight host Jonathan Goldstein talks about his early years as a writer. I was writing and no one was buying what I was selling. I just couldn't get anywhere. |
| 1:07.2 | And I just kept doing it because I felt compelled to do it like a spider spinning a web. |
| 1:12.3 | Listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:18.3 | The Catholic Church in terms of storytelling aesthetics, they got everyone beat. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Jesse Thorne on Bullseye Ryan Johnson, director of the Knives Out films, talks about why the latest one is set in a Catholic cathedral, not a SoCal megachurch. |
| 1:32.8 | The churches I grew up in, you know, most of them look like pottery barns. |
| 1:36.5 | That's Bullseye. Find us in the NPR app, Maximumfund.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:42.1 | An officer with immigration and customs enforcement, ICE, shot and killed a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday. |
| 1:48.8 | The shooting, which was captured on video by multiple observers, immediately sparked protests as community members accused the agent of murder. |
| 1:56.3 | Arrest the shooter. |
| 2:00.2 | Minnesota state law enforcement officials say they are working with the FBI to investigate the fatal shooting, which the Trump administration says was an act of self-defense. |
| 2:09.6 | This as the mayor demanded that ICE get out of Minneapolis and accused the officer of recklessly using their power. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.