美国能源部长与委内瑞拉签署石油开发协议，雪佛纳承诺投资70亿美元

♪ AMNA: IN THE DAY'S OTHER HEADLINES, THE JURY IN LINDSAY CLANCY'S MURDER TRIAL REMAINS DEADLOCKED, TELLING THE JUDGE FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AS MANY DAYS THEY'VE BEEN UNABLE TO REACH A VERDICT.

AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION, WE ARE STILL UNABLE TO COME TO A UNANIMOUS DECISION. NOW, BASED ON THAT, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER INSTRUCTION. AMNA: JUDGE WILLIAM SULLIVAN URGED THE JURORS TO BREAK THE IMPASSE ON THEIR FIFTH DAY OF DELIBERATIONS. THE JURY IS DECIDING WHETHER TO HOLD CLANCY CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING HER THREE CHILDREN IN 2023. HER ATTORNEY ARGUES THAT POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS LED TO HER ACTIONS. PROSECUTORS SAY CLANCY KNEW WHAT SHE WAS DOING WAS WRONG.

DELIBERATIONS ARE SET TO RESUME TOMORROW MORNING. TIGER WOODS WILL HAVE HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENDED FOR FIVE YEARS, AS PART OF A PLEA DEAL RELATED TO A CAR CRASH NEAR HIS FLORIDA HOME EARLIER THIS YEAR. THE 50-YEAR-OLD GOLFER APPEARED IN A FLORIDA COURT THIS MORNING TO PLEAD NO CONTEST TO RECKLESS DRIVING. HE WAS ALSO FINED $1500. WOODS WAS ARRESTED IN MARCH AFTER OFFICERS FOUND PAIN PILLS IN HIS POCKET AND SAID HE SHOWED SIGNS OF IMPAIRMENT, AFTER HIS VEHICLE CLIPPED A TRUCK AND ROLLED OVER.

HE HAD INITIALLY PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. NEITHER WOODS NOR THE OTHER DRIVER WERE INJURED. TROPICAL DEPRESSION EDOUARD BROUGHT MORE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS TO TEXAS TODAY, AS IT MOVED NORTH INTO THE STATE. CITIES LIKE BEAUMONT, ON THE BORDER WITH LOUISIANA, REMAINED UNDER FLOOD ALERTS, AFTER SEEING UP TO 21 INCHES OF RAIN. AREAS AROUND HOUSTON SAW STREETS TURNED INTO RIVERS. SCHOOLS IN AFFECTED AREAS WERE CANCELLED AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES CLOSED.

EDOUARD MADE LANDFALL YESTERDAY AS A 60-MILE-AN-HOUR TROPICAL STORM, BEFORE WEAKENING. MEANTIME, IT CONTINUES TO BE UNSEASONABLY HOT FOR MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY, WITH MORE THAN 90 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER SOME FORM OF HEAT ALERT. OFFICIALS FROM THE U.S. AND VENEZUELA SIGNED A SERIES OF DEALS TODAY TO DEVELOP THE COUNTRY'S OIL RESERVES. ON A VISIT TO CARACAS, U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT CALLED IT AN HISTORIC DAY IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF VENEZUELA.

IF WE CAN REPLACE THE CONFLICT OF THE PAST WITH COMMERCE OF TODAY AND OF THE FUTURE, WE CAN BUILD A BETTER WORLD. AMNA: EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW THE U.S. ACCESS TO AROUND ONE-FIFTH OF THE COUNTRY'S OIL RESERVES. THE PENTAGON WOULD GET A STAKE IN THE REVENUES. U.S. OIL GIANT CHEVRON IS AMONG THOSE LOOKING TO BENEFIT. IT'S COMMITTING $7 BILLION TO DOUBLE ITS PRODUCTION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

BUT ON THE GROUND, SOME VENEZUELANS REMAIN DOUBTFUL.

[TRANSLATED] I DON'T SEE ANY BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THE U.S. IS GOING TO TAKE THE OIL, AND THEN WHAT? WE LOSE POWER FOR SIX OR SEVEN HOURS, SO WHERE'S THE BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE? IT SHOULD BE SO THAT WE'RE BETTER OFF. AMNA: INDUSTRY ANALYSTS HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED SKEPTICISM TOWARD PROCESSING VENEZUELA'S CRUDE, WHICH IS NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO REF