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NPR News: 01-07-2026 8PM EST

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

0:04.4

Authorities confirmed that immigration officials shot and killed a 37-year-old woman during President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

0:12.2

The administration says the woman was blocking the road and that the agent fired in self-defense.

0:16.7

But local officials and bystanders dispute that account, and PR's Jimenez-Bustillo reports.

0:22.0

ICE officials say she drove at them, prompting one officer to shoot.

0:25.9

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome accused a woman of, quote, an act of domestic terrorism.

0:30.7

This goes to show the assaults that are ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every single day.

0:36.5

Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frye is denouncing the sweeping ice operation in his city.

0:41.3

What they are doing is not to provide safety in America.

0:45.0

What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.

0:49.2

Minneapolis police have turned over the scene to the FBI and state authorities to investigate.

0:53.7

Huma Bustillo, NPR News.

0:55.3

Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, says the U.S. will control the sale of oil from Venezuela

1:00.7

indefinitely.

1:02.3

President Trump says he will personally control the money made from selling at least 30 million

1:06.9

barrels of Venezuelan crude. NPR's Kamila Dominovsky reports.

1:11.1

Venezuela's oil production is a fraction of what it used to be, but the country still produces

1:14.9

about a million barrels per day. U.S. sanctions and blockades have made it difficult to

1:19.7

export all that oil, and some got stuck in storage. Wright says instead of maintaining the

1:24.9

blockade, the U.S. will now let the oil flow.

1:27.5

But have those sales done by the U.S. government and deposited into accounts controlled by the U.S.

1:35.3

government? The funds could then flow back into Venezuela, Wright says.

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