Cindi Baker’s defense rests after several witnesses testify

Multiple witnesses took the stand on behalf of a woman charged with the fatal stabbing of her husband in 2019 when testimony ...

Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes

Taken together, Trump’s second-term science policy reflects several emerging trends in U.S. research policy: the public’s ...

U.S. Tanker Seizure Has Paralyzed Venezuelan Oil Shipping—Except Chevron’s

Vessels are idling at ports or veering away from the region. But for Chevron, it’s business as usual.

U.S. Tanker Seizure Has Paralyzed Venezuela’s Oil Business—Except Chevron’s

The threat of another U.S. seizure has disrupted the country’s usually bustling traffic of dark-fleet vessels ferrying the Latin American country’s oil to China and Cuba. Several tankers are idling at ...

Why US giant Chevron, not China, may save oil-rich Venezuela

Chevron is driving Venezuela's oil rebound while China is pulling back. As the fate of President Nicolas Maduro grows uncertain, Washington's renewed leverage is reshaping the country's economic and ...

The U.S. has long had interest in Venezuelan oil, but that's not all

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Francisco Monaldi, the director of the Latin American Energy Program at the Baker Institute at Rice University about the U.S.'s long interest in Venezuela's oil industry.