Trump and Rubio plan to visit oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude in Texas
Topics: Texas PoliticsVenezuela
3 outlets (ABC News, PBS NewsHour and CBS News) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 3 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “Rubio”, “Venezuelan”, “oil”. Distinct wording: ABC News uses “carrying” and “tanker”; PBS NewsHour uses “Venezuela” and “million”; CBS News uses “officials” and “Machado”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- ABC News reports: “President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio plan to showcase a newly arrived oil tanker filled with Venezuelan crude in Texas on Tuesday”
- CBS News reports: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Venezuela's interim government told the U.S. "weeks and weeks" earlier that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado could return to the country without interference.”
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- ABC News: Trump and Rubio plan to visit oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude in Texas
- PBS NewsHour: WATCH: Trump says Venezuela sent him 1 million barrels of oil as a 'gift'
- CBS News: Venezuelan officials allowed Maria Corina Machado to return, Rubio says
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