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The Venezuelan government is condemning President Trump's statement Saturday saying the airspace above Venezuela should be considered closed in its entirety.

NPR's Lydia Calitri reports on the Trump administration's growing pressure on the Latin American country.

In a statement, the Venezuelan government called Trump's comments a colonialist threat to the country's sovereignty. Venezuela also said that Trump's actions represent an explicit use of force.

But Republican Senator Eric Schmidt told Fox News that Trump is acting within his rights when it comes to curbing drug smuggling by striking the boats. It's a two-part strategy.

One is to get rid of the precursors that are coming from China and then take out the cartels that are distributing this and bringing it to the United States of America.

Democrats have strongly criticized the administration's strategy, saying that the military didn't have enough evidence to conduct the boat strikes. Lydia Calitri, NPR News, Washington.

Leaders of New York City's immigrant rights groups and local elected officials are vowing to continue resisting federal immigration enforcement efforts.

This comes a day after activists disrupted ICE agents in lower Manhattan. Reporter Uru Vunugopal of member station WNYC in New York has more.

Protesters surged to the side of an attempted ICE raid in Chinatown on Saturday, blocking the agents' vehicles with garbage.

Hannah Stoss is an organizer with Hands Off NYC, which mobilizes members of the public in response to ICE raids.

She says her group's trainings have been so well attended that it's had to turn people away, and that peaceful standoffs with federal agents can alter outcomes.

Even though these are big, strong men with guns, they get a lot less bold because there are a lot more of us than there are them.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security referred to the activists as violent rioters, and it accused people who advertised the ICE officers' location on social media of putting the officers in danger.

For NPR News, I'm Arun Van Gogh-Paul in New York. White House tours will resume this week on Tuesday, this after an extended pause due to the demolition of the East Wing.

NPR's Tamara Keith has an update on the new route. Public White House tours had been put on hold indefinitely because of President Trump's ballroom project.

For years, tours started in the East Wing before proceeding to the residence. But with the East Wing now gone, tours will start and finish at the North Portico of the White House.

The route will be shorter than before, but will still take visitors through the most iconic rooms in the White House, the Blue Room, Red Room, Green Room, State Dining Room, and Cross Hall, where many presidents have delivered memorable addresses.

The residents will be fully decked out for the holidays when tours resume. Tour requests can be made through members of Congress.
Tamara Keith, NPR News.

After a shortened Thanksgiving holiday week, Wall Street resumes its trading Monday morning. You're listening to NPR News.

The Northwest grows about 5,000 acres of cranberries every year. Some of the fruit might be hitting your table soon.

Northwest Public Broadcasting's Anna King learned from one Washington farmer what it takes to grow that bright red orb. Much of the Northwest cranberry harvest starts near the beginning of October.

Cranberry vines set their fruit one year ahead. That means farmers are harvesting one crop while managing next year's.
Bruce Lashney has grown cranberries for several decades with his wife Anne.

Cranberries are a very humbling crop because you'll have a really good crop one year and you think, I've got it all figured out.

And the next year, nature just comes down and slaps you down and said, no, you don't.

That's pretty much cranberry growing. Lashney says there are many variables that could take down your cranberries, poor yields and color, bugs, weeds, fungus, and frost.
For NPR News, I'm Anna King.

The weather is a factor for millions of people who are traveling by road and airplane on what is traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

The flight tracking service, Flight Aware, reports more than 1,000 flights were canceled canceled Sunday on top of the more than 2,600 flights that were canceled Saturday.

Many of the disruptions are at the key hub for United Airlines in Chicago and American at O'Hare International Airport, where the airport got more than eight inches of snow Saturday.

The Des Moines airport is reopened after a jet skidded off the runway on Saturday. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.

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