Trump touts new oil deal with Venezuela
Watch CBS News President Trump touted lower gas prices after last week’s oil deal with Venezuela, but experts don’t agree it will ease the cost for consumers anytime soon. Nancy Cordes reports. Source link
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8/30: CBS Weekend News – CBS News Watch CBS News Nepal warns of new flooding amid ongoing devastation; President Trump says the oil deal with Venezuela will boost U.S. oil reserves. Source link
Nicolás Maduro shares photos from New York prison: “We are standing firm”
Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolás Maduro said on social media Sunday that he was “standing firm,” while sharing photographs from the New York prison where he has been held since his capture by U.S. forces. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in Caracas during a U.S. military operation in January. They are being detained…
ICE deports Afghans and others to Africa, expanding “third country” deportations
Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its “third country” deportation campaign, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by CBS News. Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights, the government documents show, dropped off dozens of…
Trump claims new deal with Venezuela will help lower elevated gas prices as midterms approach
President Trump claimed Friday that a new deal with Venezuela, which will give the U.S. control of billions of oil barrels, is set to lower gas prices in the U.S. Olivia Gazis reports. Source link
Trump says U.S. now has majority control over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves
President Trump announced a deal Friday to grant the United States majority control of over 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves — as the Trump administration angles to get oil companies to return to the country after a U.S. military operation replaced the country’s leadership earlier this year. The administration has not yet…
ICE deports Venezuelan father from Texas to West Africa: A situation “I don’t wish on anybody”
A 35-year-old Venezuelan man who lived in Texas for years is now nearly 6,000 miles from his wife and 5-month-old American son after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him to West Africa. Carlos Tellez Sanchez said he had never heard of Liberia until last week, when he found out he was being deported to…
Trump’s oil and gas stock trades continued during Iran war, filings show
Washington — President Trump’s investment accounts have continued to purchase and sell stock holdings in oil and natural gas companies while he oversees the U.S. war with Iran, according to his financial disclosure filings through the second quarter of 2026. As the Iran war continued, paused for a ceasefire and then restarted, Mr. Trump has…
Suspect arrested for allegedly killing influencer on livestream in Mexico
Mexico has arrested a man who allegedly shot and killed an influencer during a live broadcast, authorities said on Wednesday. Cesar Gastelum was attacked on August 4 while livestreaming in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, which has been a battleground for warring drug factions. Gastelum, who had more than 500,000 TikTok followers, was dressed…
Colombia earthquake survivors are reliving a nightmare from 1999: “You feel a sense of powerlessness”
Jahir Rodríguez knew what was happening when he saw thick, dark clouds forming near his home in western Colombia on Monday morning. Parts of his dear Pereira were crumbling. The urban planner and former professor also knows what happens next after a powerful earthquake devastates whole communities. He sprang into action after a deadly 1999 quake…